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LESSONS IN STRATEGIC
CHANGE:
Bringing Vision to
Reality
Seminar Description
What are
the secrets of bringing vision to reality? How can we translate our exciting
wishes into everyday practice? And what guarantees failure? Initiating and sustaining change is daunting, no doubt about it. Some firms are wildly successful, but others fail to act at all, suffering from profound inertia. Truly, everyone wants to attract the most important work, draw the best people, sustain peak levels of performance, and enjoy the top fees — but only those who understand how change works will win the day.
Some firms approach strategic change from a mechanistic, operational-efficiency mindset, fighting a guerilla war. Others bullishly seek growth and diversification. But both fail to harness the creative energies of their people, and many simply lose their way.
In this session, we share the case studies and advanced-level implementation lessons we’ve learned in our strategic planning work with design firms across the country. We’ll highlight common mistakes, and focus on the two proven links to success: 1) to identify the most deep-seated values and goals of the organization, and then 2) to craft a business design of roles, skills, and work patterns that naturally program the desired changes.
In this course you will:
- Understand the shift from machine-age thinking to biological-systems thinking.
- Explore our assumptions about change and how it should or shouldn’t occur.
- Discover the land mines set with “committee disease”.
- Consider how formulating direction through a bold, inspiring vision for the future provides positive boundaries for creativity and action.
- Design structures that support new activities and processes, in each of the firm’s strategic systems.
- Learn to create an ongoing dialog with staff for input, ideas, and commitment.
- Integrate regional offices, strategic alliances, and clients into the whole.
- Transform the role of the President into a master gardener who plants, cultivates, and weeds.
Audience
Advanced. This program is best-suited to senior staff and principals who are
responsible for developing their firm’s strategic direction. Attendees
should be interested in the design of their practice and have influence on key
company decisions.
Program Length
Half or full day workshop.
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