Ensuring Businesses Survive and Thrive
We are often approached by other consultancies, executive-coaches and training institutes about the core to our offering and how we work with such a diverse group of clients. We are delighted to share some of SSG’s approach with other BBBF members.
Enterprise owners more often than not approach us to aid them with transformation and change, working with them to create more agile businesses which become higher performing and deliver more successfully, prepared to handle turbulent environments. Invariably these owners want their management teams and employees to be prepared to implement changes, to do it quickly, and to create sustainable differences from other organisations.
‘Doing things quickly’ is one of the conversations we have on a regular basis; lack of urgency is one of the most debilitating issues in companies, as people resist the challenges of change. No amount of advice helps with this issue; demands hard work through the tiers of the organisation.
Maximising the platform for senior management’s and directors’ flexibility and agility is vital if any transformation and change plan is going to have any chance of success. If the enterprise is burdened with, and cannot lose, unnecessary and repetitive bureaucracy then potential success will be hampered. The tendency of ineffective managers who need forms and paperwork to justify their existence can be minimised when there is trust between owners and and management teams who are connected by normalised and shared values and a clear vision, giving them agreed direction and boundaries of authority.
Working on developing and implementing more trust, improving communications and aiding the acceptance of different perspectives is key to our work with owners, C Suites, directors, management and employees.
Building on this trust will enable those working in an enterprise become more focused on agreed purpose, vision, values, broad goals and specific objectives. Stimulating implementation of exceptional strategic execution is so important to clients – they are just not interested in ‘advice’ without help to make things happen. Helping to define strategy, prepare future leaders, and navigate enterprise culture and dynamics are invaluable elements we have been asked to regularly deliver for clients.
Keeping everyone in the organisation focused on ownership and accountability for their responsibilities are keys to future success for clients – and are key to the success for any service company brought in to aid with transformation, change and sustainable future success.
We hope these thoughts are of some value and look forward to sharing more in the future with others involved in advising, consulting, executive-coaching and training as well as implementing change-platforms for future sustainable success for clients.