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WHAT’S YOUR COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE, PART 3

Posted on April 2, 2018 by Trinity HR

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

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  • Cascading of messages

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

  1. We have a clear, written Vision Statement that has been effectively communicated to everyone within our organization.
  2. Our Leadership Team is open & honest, & demonstrates a high level of trust.
  3. 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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