| Ever felt you would like the people in your organization to work together more as a team? Or your people to have a healthier balance between initiative and cooperation? |
| Services to Leaders VMVC: Vision-Mission-Values Coherence |
| Testimonial Chant Construction Limited is a 45-employee company committed to sustainable electrical energy development through superlative project planning and a humanly energizing approach to contractual and organizational productivity and individual well-being. It has established a reputation for shockingly excellent service to power utilities in both Canada and the US. Chant is now engaged in a long-range plan to grow a culture its leadership knows will focus employees on realizing sustained prosperity for the company as much as for themselves. Says Founder and CEO Ted Chant: “Combining corporate productivity with personal well-being has always been more art than science, and hence a seemingly inaccessible goal to many. We began our quest for work nirvana 7 years ago knowing that an Employee Share Ownership Plan (ESOP) would be a part of it. Having helped my corporate team reach and communicate the balance among interests that a successful ESOP requires, Authentix Coaches’ Angus Cunningham is now helping us realize larger aims through the growing of an organically constructive culture, in which the values we bring from our home, workplace and marketplace experiences are refined into an equitable, coherent and vital whole. Having a 2-hour coaching session each week with Angus is to find one turning the relentless pressure of today’s working world into clarifying insights, intriguing intuitions, and focused initiatives in which one feels a welcome degree of inner confidence, and often renewed energy. Each session enables me to reframe my sense of what is occurring in my world with such accuracy that my setting of priorities and decision-making is not only making my own life, and those of my family members, less workaholic, but also beginning to make the working lives of all our employees more productive and enjoyable. Having Angus coach us through the many transitions we know we now both must and want to make is giving us, when the going gets tough, confidence that we “have it in ourselves” to realize shockingly excellent success!” – Feb 2007 (Shortly after this testimonial was received, we learned that Chant's ESOP launch offering, which had been 3 years in the making, was taken up by 90% of its permanent employees. This figure compares with an average figure of 30 to 40% for ESOP launch take-ups in the United States). |
| The substance of these messages is, of course, much easier to state than to practice. But the onus is not necessarily only on leaders or owners to bring them to life in an organization. When a coherence of values is effected so that owners, leaders, and the teams that leaders inspire all work more or less spontaneously together, the need of both customers and shareholders can be met both simultaneously and efficiently. |
| Authentix Coaches has 4 key messages for leaders wanting to grow a culture supportive of sustained, successful performance: |
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| Common Organizational Reality Employees often perceive disconnections between their organization’s espoused values and the attitudes and behaviours that supervisors encourage or censor Perceived disconnections cause disengagement of energy because that is the only way for most employees to maintain psychological balance Risks of disengagement from intelligently chosen strategic initiatives multiply when an organization’s culture is defensive and uninspiring Although many will offer their intuitions and hunches, accurate means are available to identify the attitudes and behaviours of both actual and desired cultures |
| Authentix Leadership Messages Smart leaders recognize that disconnections lead to confusion, distrust, and acrimony but the practice of engaged dialogue leads, in time, to trust, creativity, and coherence Insightful leaders recognize that even the most brilliantly focused and powerfully invested strategies fail when disengagements are left unacknowledged or unaddressed Wise leaders choose, in advance, cultures that are knowingly suited to the market niches being targeted, and inculcate clearly stated values by example and coaching Truly vitalizing leaders find practically prudent ways to integrate and balance the subtle linkages between cultural realities, leadership style, ideal values, and focused, persistent implementation initiative |
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