• 90% of organizations don’t use a planning process • People focus on desired results only 50% of the time • 71% of people are disengaged • 88% of companies lack an effective plan to growYou successfully started your business and now it’s growing. You may be wondering, “Are we as productive as we could be despite the fact we’re hiring more people?” Without a sound plan for organizational health, many organizations end up with a mediocre or poor culture that drives their best people away and provides a haven for the disengaged. Each month, I have provided information on the five processes needed to ensure your organizational wellness. They are:Gallup Organization
- REQUIREMENTS GATHERING
- HUMAN SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
- PROGRAM DESIGN
- IMPLEMENTATION
- TESTING AND MAINTENANCE
- Communicating to people a vision and path for a successful culture transformation
- Inspiring trust and courage so people take the leap of faith needed to build healthy culture
- Receiving sufficient financial buy-in and support
- Addressing and winning over naysayers, doubters, and clingers to the status quo
- Overcoming their fear of change, their people’s fear of change and growing pains
- Do we have a sound plan for adopting a values-based, personal responsibility culture model?
- Have we mastered the tools, model and know how to promote and communicate it in a unified manner?
- Do our people attend regular training to increase their self-awareness, self-management, and awareness of others and to be effective in managing relationships with managers, peers and clients?
- Do our people know how to create individual plans for professional development and share them with their managers?
- Do our people all know common, specific communication and leadership skills?
- Have we integrated opportunities into our workweek for every person to demonstrate new skills?
- Do we have an orientation process in which all new hires learn about our culture, are trained in our unique toolset and processes and know how to quickly participate in the organizational culture in a meaningful way?