Hopefully, Parts 1 & 2 have caused you to consider the value of creating & maintaining ORGANIZATIONAL HEALTH within your company. So here in the 3rd & final part of this series, we’ll:
- Identify the 4 disciplines that constitute Organizational Health
- Provide several sample questions that are critical in assessing your organization’s health
The Four Disciplines
DISCIPLINE #1: BUILD A COHESIVE LEADERSHIP TEAM
Team members:
- Trust one another enough to be genuinely vulnerable
- Engage regularly in candid, open discussions (including with healthy differences of viewpoints) on important issues
- Conclude with specific, actionable agreements related to decisions
- Hold one another accountable to commitments and behaviors
- Place the team in front of themselves or their functional areas, & therefore are fully committed to its goals
DISCIPLINE #2: CREATE CLARITY
The Leadership Team:
- Knows & agrees on why the organization exists
- Has defined & embraced specific behaviors expected & values to be practiced
- Has agreed on strategies, action plans & metrics to assess success for which it takes collective ownership
- Understands each other’s roles & responsibilities
- Communicates consistently & frequently to ensure organization-wide clarity exists
DISCIPLINE #3: OVER COMMUNICATE CLARITY
The Leadership Team Members communicates by utilizing:
- Repetition
- Simplicity
- Multiple mediums
- Cascading of messages
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DISCIPLINE #4: REINFORCE CLARITY
The Leadership Team ensures continuity of clarity by:
- As part of the hiring process, candidates compatibility with the organization’s values & overall culture is taken in consideration
- New employees undergo an orientation program
- The existence of a comprehensive performance management system
- Rewards & recognition being built around the achievement of results by use of the organization’s values
SAMPLE QUESTIONS TO ASSESS ORGANIZATIONAL HEALTH
- We have a clear, written Vision Statement that has been effectively communicated to everyone within our organization.
- Our Leadership Team is open & honest, & demonstrates a high level of trust.
- A Scorecard for metrics is in place & is carefully reviewed on a pre-determined basis, & actual vs performance measurements are communicated
CONCLUDING REMARKS
Can a healthy organization fail? Of course—for a variety of reasons. But the likelihood of success is greatly enhanced when:
- Politics, ambiguity, dysfunction and confusion are reduced to a minimum
- People feel valued & empowered to solve problems & help one another in ways that unhealthy organizations can only dream about
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