The Challenge

A recent report on building the Nimble Organisation by McKinsey & Co, the leading management consultants, found that over 90% of senior executives stated that the quicker implementation of strategy changes is a key strategic and competitive objective for their companies.

As markets become faster moving, more uncertain and turbulent the more innovation, speed of response and adaptability become essential organisational ingredients of success. In the struggle to make coherent and timely responses to market and business environmental change the role of senior and mid-level front-line managers has become increasingly critical to the success of companies.

It is the ability of senior and mid-level managers to adapt as quickly and seamlessly as possible to change that can make the difference between success and failure.

How to survive and thrive

To survive in this new fast moving, ever changing environment front-line managers and others must adopt a more proactive role in adapting to change. Use new skills and organisational practices that will enable them to make coherent, business driven and timely responses to changes, and to manage the frequent off-plan variations that occur in day-to-day deployment of plans. The agile, flexible manager skills model provides an essential and dynamic way for managers to develop these new skills and practices.