"...(Management Associates') assessment process is a quick and efficient method of obtaining information about current environmental conditions and factors that are crucial to designing effective leadership training and organizational development strategies. "

Assessment

A key prerequisite of planned growth, development and change is gaining an accurate, insightful view of the prevailing organizational reality in relation to the desired future. Management Associates has designed a simple but effective process of assessment to help organizations that have a clear, compelling vision for their future to surface and understand their starting point - the current organizational culture.

Our assessment process surfaces organizational strengths as well as any inhibiting factors that might, if not addressed, prevent the organization from achieving its desired vision. It is not a problem-oriented assessment but a future-oriented assessment whose objective is to facilitate change and growth.

The assessment data is collected by Management Associates' staff through meetings with a representative cross-section of individuals and small groups of employees at every level of the company. The findings of the assessment are compiled, analyzed, and fed back to the management, and follow-up action planning is facilitated.

This assessment process provides "base line" information about the existing organizational culture. Because this initial assessment is based on conversations rather than statistical data, it provides detail and fleshes out general issues, allowing a greater degree of understanding of the overall culture of the organization. The assessment process is not complete until the organization has identified clear development action steps based on the information that has been surfaced.

In short, our assessment process is a quick and efficient method of obtaining information about current environmental conditions and factors that are crucial to designing effective leadership training and organizational development strategies. Outcomes of the assessment process are:

• An objective portrait of an organization's existing culture in relation to its desired future
• Meaningful information upon which training and development plans can be formulated
• Identification of strengths that can be built on
• Identification of unseen roadblocks to success