In a fast-changing world, the only way to stay ahead of your competition is to learn and improve faster than they do.
If you are behind but learning faster than your competitors, then you will eventually catch up. And, once you are ahead of the competition continuing to improve faster will help to maintain your advantage. Sustainable excellence is the creation of ever-increasing value for multiple stakeholders including investors, customers, employees, suppliers and partners, the community, and the natural environment. Easier said than done! This lab collection addresses organizational performance assessment and analysis to inform new strategies and designs. The last lab includes a 126-point organization self-assessment to help you identify opportunities for a redesign.
Organization Performance Review Lab #8
Scorecard results are analyzed and periodically reviewed by the leaders at all levels who then revise the action plans and operations as necessary to accomplish the strategy. While some of the learning during these reviews is limited to “single-loop” learning and keeping things on track, occasionally the dialogue will result in an examination of the underlying assumptions and “double-loop” learning that enables the team to address root causes and prevent similar problems in the future. This fact-based approach to management includes organization performance analysis that informs the reinforcement of the desired behaviors.
Lab Approach
- Key Concepts – Understand Organization Performance Review concepts, components, and relationships and how they contribute to leadership and organization [re]design for sustainable excellence.
- Application – Apply the key Organization Performance Review concepts to your particular organization using the downloadable Worksheet(s).
- Assessment – Evaluate how well your particular organization applies the key concepts of Organization Performance Review to achieve sustainable excellence.
- Leader as Organization Architect – Apply collaborative leadership concepts to the leadership activities associated with conducting Organization Performance Reviews.
- [Re]Create – Apply what you have learned about Organization Performance Reviews to improve your organization and leadership.
Learn and Improve Lab #10
Successful leaders of transformation are never satisfied with the organization’s performance and continuously learn from experience. To fully develop the organization’s systems, culture and individuals requires that the organization learn not only from their successes but also from their failures. Organizations that have achieved sustainable excellence by learning from success and failure did so using four common methods or approaches: strategic management cycle, organization assessment and improvement, continuous improvement, and benchmarking. These methods are often integrated into the other eight leadership system components through learning loops.
Lab Approach
- Key Concepts – Understand the Learn and Improve concepts, components, and relationships and how they contribute to leadership and organization [re]design for sustainable excellence.
- Application – Apply the key Learning and Improvement concepts to your particular organization using the downloadable Worksheet(s).
- Assessment – Evaluate how well your particular organization applies the key concepts of Learning and Improvement to achieve sustainable excellence.
- Leader as Organization Architect – Apply collaborative leadership concepts to the leadership activities associated with Learning and Improvement.
- [Re]Create – Apply what you have learned about Learning and Improvement to improve your organization and leadership.
Facilitators of Change Lab #14
Some leaders of successful change doubted they could do it. Indeed, it can seem overwhelming. There are a few key facilitators of change to help you along the journey. First, you are not alone so start by developing your team of leaders as organization architects. Second, begin with the senior leadership team so you will have credibility and personal knowledge to lead the journey. Then develop a plan to guide your [re]design and transformation. There is an old saying, “If it has been done, it must be possible.”
Lab Approach
- Key Concepts – Understand the Facilitators of Change concepts, components, and relationships and how they contribute to leadership and organization [re]design for sustainable excellence.
- Application – Apply the key Facilitators of Change concepts to your particular organization using the downloadable Worksheet(s).
- Assessment – Evaluate how well your particular organization applies the key concepts of Facilitators of Change to achieve sustainable excellence.
- Leader as Organization Architect – Conduct a Consolidated Assessment and Analysis, and Develop an Improvement Plan that includes all 14 components of the Leadership & Design Blueprint.
- [Re]Create – Apply what you have learned about the Facilitators of Change to improve your organization and leadership.
