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Core
organizational development requirements
At the heart of Management Associates' ability to help an organization
attain its targeted results is our consistent focus on the fundamental requirements of effective
organizational development. Some of these
core requirements are:
Clarity of direction
The first requirement for systematic, long term development is that the top people within the
organization have a clear sense of direction, knowing where they are going and what they want
to achieve. It is imperative that they have a clear and unified sense of vision.
The importance of unity of
purpose -
a future orientation about which people care -
cannot be over stressed. Management
Associates' development process begins by surfacing and clarifying the vision to ensure that
all subsequent training and development take place in a vision-driven context.
Clear awareness of current functioning
Having an accurate view of current reality is as important to success as having a clear vision.
Subtle, often overlooked or underestimated issues exist in most organizations,
and they dramatically inhibit the organization's capability to achieve its desired goals. Management
Associates assists an organization, through a variety of means, to identify those inhibiting issues
in its present functioning that must be addressed in order to achieve success.
Importance of top management
Top management is the single most important factor in the successful pursuit of any major developmental
objective.
First, it is imperative that this group define, clarify, commit to, and communicate their vision.
This infuses the organization with the motivating vigor of a clear, unified sense of the preferred
future, surrounding the tasks of growth and change with meaning and importance.
Second, organizational teamwork, development, and continuous improvement rest on certain essential
management attitudes, values, and behaviors. Their achievement usually requires, to some degree, a
reorientation of management thinking and behavior. Management Associates' process provides top level
executives the necessary structure, opportunity, and information to effectively surface and undertake
the challenging changes they themselves may have to make before any other substantial organizational
growth can take place.
Education and skills development
As an organization grows, it needs a foundation of shared knowledge and understanding regarding human
interaction and performance in the workplace. Management Associates' development process, presented
in the context of an organization's own vision and goals, focuses on providing managers and supervisors
the necessary training and skills development to achieve their goals. This systematic, goal-focused
education establishes a common managerial knowledge base, from which people develop a shared vocabulary
resulting in a collective ability to view problems, discuss options, and make decisions from a common
vantage point.
Implementation and continuous improvement
No matter how great the desire to improve, people also need a plan for effectively implementing
changes and measuring their progress. Management Associates guides the process
of first developing clear, concrete descriptions of desired new management behaviors, relationships, and
interactions, and then defining plans for how to get there. Management Associates also uses a measurement
tool designed specifically around the vision, values, and vocabulary of the organization to provide
data for targeting on-going growth and development.
Motivation and unity of resolve
Development is, at times, difficult and uncomfortable. To successfully
persevere down the path of continuous management improvement requires a consistently high
level of individual motivation and, equally importantly, a high and unified level of collective resolve
to achieve the vision of the future. Recognizing this, Management
Associates builds into the development process the stimulation and maintenance
of commitment to change and growth.
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