Your challenge as a manager

Every company and every organisational unit within that company has a success formula. A unit's success formula is what it does and the way it does things - it about direction/purpose, processes, resources allocation, organisation & leadership, culture & values and relationships, its about the energy and focus of the staff, the ability to respond flexibly to changing situations. Simply put every organisation unit needs to be business driven, high energy and adaptive.

New Business Realities

Success formulas develop over time, some are arrived at by design, others by trial & error.

Existing unit success formulas are coming under increasing pressure from new business realities, especially in the economic downturn as companies fight to maintain performance;

• Operating and commercial functions are having to achieve more demanding business goals, implement strategy changes more quickly to remain competitive
• Traditional support functions are shifting to a more integrated shared services model with greater responsibility for supporting performance organisation-wide and a sharper focus on business goals & needs,
• Technical functions need to collaborate as business partners to deliver sustainable improvements in performance,
• Success formulas do not stand still - they need updating, success breeds complacency, staff question why change is necessary, it becomes increasingly difficult to maintain performance.

Your challenge is to lead an organisational unit that delivers improved performance and makes a bigger contribution to the success of the company.

How to survive and thrive

To survive in this new environment you need to give strong leadership and take decisive action, have a willingness to rethink your unit's success formula and have the ability to take your unit with you. To change and update your unit's success formula you need strong shaping skills.

Shaping skills - thinking strategically about your unit [its purpose & direction, its current reality & develop your strategy agenda], designing [applying the building blocks of a success formula], and building [implementing changes as quickly and seamlessly as possible].

This workshop is specifically designed to meet your needs; to boost the development of your shaping skills and to equip you with a roadmap and a set of success strategies you can apply to building & rebuilding your unit's success formula.