There are two essential protocols organizations can chase in their configuration. One is hierarchical elitism, where everybody tries to claw their way to the peak, and anyone left at the bottom is left feeling defeated, mistreated, and in the end justified in taking whatever avenging actions they see fit. The other is protocol morals maturity and ethics, bearing in mind the benefits inherent in individual expansion and growth. In organizations like this, the leaders seek to lend lots of support to their people in becoming stronger, abler, and more self assured.
In a budding, moral organization, we typically find seven competencies which support it in producing amazing achievement. These 7 competencies are linked and interdependent, working like a molecule which is part of each cell of the industry or group. They comprise:
Confidence
Everyone in the organization, at all levels must be instilled with the confidence, information and skills necessary to build the structure and processes that will render the strategic vision of the whole.
Commitment
The identity of the organization, as a whole, must have clarity of purpose and be clear on its vision and values. When everyone in the organization feels aligned with this clear purpose, vision and set of values then these will easily flow in the day-to-day operations. When an organization and its members feel closely aligned with one another the good-will, dedication, humanity and prosperity flow.
Co-Creation
With everyone on the same side and daily operations running smoothly and in accordance with the group’s integrity, then everybody, no matter what their place is actively involved in building the future of the whole. This generates high admiration, productiveness and exponential development, and generates a prospect in which all are invested.
Connection
This future that all members at all degrees are involved in producing stimulates a kind of alluring draw, “Prospect Pull.” This is the authority of the idea manifesting itself and pulling everyone all along with it. It entails the talent to focus on the idea of the association down the road, and the strategic preparation of precisely what needs to be put in place in order to realize it. Now the group is being handled through the collective strategic vision rather than a power hierarchy.
Communication
By using a modern open setting, communication flows with no trouble and swiftly. Providing essential communication tools that are both organic as well as high-tech, people have all the information they need within easy reach. Improvements are repeated in such a natural situation, and the mixed communication methods preserve momentum of the strategic vision.
Celebration & Course Correction
While traveling towards any destination, continuous course correction is imperative: the model of running on auto-pilot is obsolete today. An organization that is attuned to its journey towards its strategic vision, will celebrate its successes, correct its failures and learn from it all.
Caring
An environment of respect is imperative for a successful operation. This respect must radiate from the organization outward to its clients, suppliers, shareholder and associates. Relationships remain at the heart of any human venture, and the value of human capital can never be taken for granted. In this new paradigm, all members need to strive toward higher levels of development and maturity, and structures need to be put into place to facilitate this.
What kind of results will these seven competencies render?
This prescribed organizational architecture results in:
* confidence
* self-esteem
* easy adaptation to complex or challenging circumstances
* mutual respect
* high efficiency
* increased value of members and of the group itself (including products & services)
* organic, productive managing
* a new and prosperous model of human relationships in the corporate world
* a mature, and built-in system
* a more sturdy and competitive organization
It is effortless to see that a relationship, business, firm, or any type of association is a microcosm of civilization. Working our way from personal individual psychological progress, we shift onto comparable progress in the sphere of the organization. All this is in an effort to render mature conscientious, ethical, and accountable people, businesses and in the end reshape society as a whole.
Victor Pinedo, Jr. is President of Corporate Transitions International. A consultant in organizational change since 1969, he invented Organizational Architecture, an organizational transformation program that is unique in its long-term effectiveness. Mr. Pinedo is the author of the best selling book on Organizational Architecture, Tsunami: Constructing organizations that are able to prosper in tidal waves. Visit: http://www.ctiarch.com/ to know more.