Corporate Adaptation
Every year a significant number of companies will face a major inflection point in their history. In reality, change is a continuous dynamic and few companies perform well under constant disruption. Our consulting services are designed to build the organizational capability, the adaptive DNA, to be adaptive and thrive in dynamically changing environments. The Adaptive Quotient™ is a comprehensive, multi-dimensional diagnostic of a company’s environment for emergent, goal-oriented adaptive behavior. Insights from the Adaptive Quotient™ diagnostic combined with our Adaptive Transitions™ and LINKS2™ strategic capability builder enable Boards and executives to approach to strategic transformation and leadership transitions with precision, stabilize shaky situations, and both accelerate and embed lasting change.
Organizational Capability for Competitive Advantage
Is your organization capable of performing as specified by the business strategy and delivering the desired results?
An organization’s capability is either enabled or constrained by its patterns of knowledge, information, technical processes, and management systems. Capability is not simply an org chart but accountability structures and formal/informal stakeholder networks tied to the business strategy. Competitive advantage takes more than just smart people… leadership and passion for ideation, learning, continuous improvement, and adaptation. Dynamically managed, adaptive leadership is the key capability to deliver reliable, repeatable, sustainable and consistently superior outcomes
Corporate adaptation is inextricably linked to corporate performance
Video: LINKS2™ – Organizational Capability turns Strategy into Results
Board Advisors
Corporate governance requires effective executive succession planning. Our bottom-up succession plan breaks traditional paradigms that have limited visibility into the organization or externally to potential successors. In addition to the duties of the Board, corporate performance is highly influenced by the strength of an effective board. We are trusted advisors to boards that are looking to evolve, assisting them in the recruitment of one or more new directors for succession and to improve strategic alignment.
Adaptive Leadership Transitions (Milestone-based Executive On-boarding)
The challenges facing a new executive and their team within the first 6-9 months of transition can be staggering. Data suggests that ~40% of executive transitions fail to meet expectations within the first 18 months. New leaders are rarely given a mandate to maintain the status quo following a transition. Executives are typically brought in to stabilize a shaky situation or take a team to the next level. In actuality, both the executive and his/her team are going through significant change following a leadership transition.
Many organizations fail to provide the necessary support to the new executive (and team) during this critical transition period. Our Adaptive Leadership Transitions™ process is validated in practice and accelerates a new leader and his/her team through milestones critical to a successful leadership transition. Our process expands the typical “onboarding” with the most pragmatic and business-relevant approach in the search industry.