There are two mind-bending transitions for a business: Phase 2 and Impeachment.
The first is a growth stage, the second a decaying one. They can be hard or easy and, they can be a beautiful evolution for an organization.
We specialize in these transitions.
Phase 2
Phase 2 is the transition of a company from leader-centric to business-centric, from “cowboy” style to structure and systems, from doing everything at hand and putting out the fires in front of you to getting back to your specialty and adding the skills of leading to your tool belt.
And, giving your people the tools they need to excel on your behalf… because they want a fruitful life too!
This is the critical point where a company shifts from adolescence into prime, thriving competitor… or into premature aging, and soon, failure. It’s the teetering edge between sharing your beautiful intentions (and widget) with the world and stumbling with pain and confusion into looking back, wondering what went wrong.
If you’re prepared, congratulations! Most of us aren’t. Most of us have not yet had all of the training, or raw instinct, required to bridge this gap. But consider, even Steve Jobs was fired by his own company for his inability to make this transition. Yes, years later he was hired back. In those 12 years, he gained a lot of scars, pain, and education. If you’re that good or, lucky, do you want to wait that long?
You do not need to. All you have to do is courageously define your pain points and then learn through them.
What can we do about it?
Identify, define, and strategize a plan to make this your company’s most fruitful and fun phase yet. Then help execute it.
The Impeachment
The Impeachment transition is when a company has had success, sometimes exceptional, but they haven’t embraced the 21st Century perspective on leadership, management, and team. They’re still trying to maintain a pyramid org chart and a layer of management between the thinkers and the doers.
This is a broken system and a failing structure. In today’s society we all want to contribute and we all want to be heard. And, we can, whether you want to hear (pun intended) that or not!
We want flex time off, optional benefits packages, and the opportunity to express ourselves. We want our leaders to ask us what’s wrong with our own departments that we work every day and, we want action based on our input.
With culturally cutting edge companies like Edelman Financial, Southwest Airlines, and Google leading the way, even your grocery cashier trusts that they have an opinion that counts and that there is a company out there willing to listen. So far, it’s not you.
What can we do about it?
Identify, define, and strategize a plan to make this your company’s most fruitful and fun phase yet. Then help execute it.
Our framework:
It depends on you but most often…
Inquiry.
We interview internally and externally, the C Suite and the delivery person, your favorite client and most common client (not always the same.) We learn your culture and we evaluate the systems in place making it happen. Then we design the change and do it.
Investigation.
We dig deeply into the only five ways all companies make money. We get the current stats, the wants and the needs and, we evaluate the systems in place making those things happen. Then we design the change and do it.
Insight.
There is not one element of a good business well run that is not learnable, teachable and repeatable. We have a lot of experience in doing and sharing. We do that… with you.
And we help you build sustainable systems and structure by helping you change your thinking about your business and your role in it.Using our (yes proprietary) SMART (insert appropriate solution) Model we give you a new lens through which to view your business and the people that help you make it successful. With this education, you’ll never go back, fall back, or lose sight of your objectives because they are now, a part of your ongoing organizational conversation.
To Learn more or sign up for one of our TEAMS Courses, call the office or
shoot us an email and we’ll learn more about you and your wonderfully unique situation.
Your solution could come in the form of an
organizational SMART TEAMS strategy, a
leadership team SMART TEAMS strategy, a
“key man” SMART TEAMS strategy or, a 1:1 consultation relationship. It is up to you. Clearly, though, we encourage a SMART TEAMS Framework because they have proven their worth time and again.
