Performance Solutions
For better or worse, executive leaders and performance systems cast their shadows on cultures. Innergy helps you improve both for maximum benefit.
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Who you select for leadership positions and how you prepare them is one of the most important investments you will make. Innergy's strategic assessment of leaders and high-potential programs make sure your investment pays off in a strong bench to fill management positions.
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Learning on-the-job is the number one way develop leaders. Innergy's performance challenges are a two-sided coin of driving performance and developing leaders.
Innergy's fractional culture officer performance solutions include the design and ongoing management of the following processes:
Guiding Philosophy of Business
Extraordinary businesses clarify their philosophy of business and then actively put this philosophy into practice in everything they do. It creates a sense of meaning for a company and all of its stakeholders. A key measure of success is whether the philosophy has become reality. Just like every human being has a unique philosophy of life, the same is true for each business. This philosophy becomes the touchstone for decision-making, cultural behaviors and all people practices. The guiding philosophy includes the organization's purpose, values, and essential actions.
Strategic Assessment of Leadership
This a process that occurs at least annually focused on:
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a clear-eyed assessment of the state of the culture
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a review of the top tier of leaders relative to the strategic needs
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identifying high-potential talent for accelerated development into expanded roles, and
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succession planning.
Innergy's approach to assessing leadership talent includes a stage-based understanding of leadership potential based in an academically-rigorous method for assessing leadership capacity for the critical executive skills of learning agility, systems thinking, and mutually-beneficial collaboration.
High-Potential Talent Programs
Creating a strong leadership bench is done by design rather than by accident. A pool of high-potential leaders is clarified during the annual strategic assessment of leadership. The next step is to develop these leaders in an accelerated manner. Accelerated development involves strategies that are selected based upon a cultural fit with the organization. The four main strategies include:
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formal leadership development program to learn through workshops, assessments, and action learning projects
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mentorship program to learn from executives and leaders, and
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career plans to learn on-the-job
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growth group to learn from and support one another's ongoing development.
Performance Challenges
Work should be fun. Extensive research reveals the value of utilizing game mechanics to turn business challenges into bite-sized goal-pursuit challenges. Innergy utilizes seven science-based strategies for motivating people to turn goals into tangible progress and results:
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Goal Pursuit Micro-workshop. Learn the science of goal pursuit that is immediately applied to the challenge.
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Create a vision of success. Write it down and make it memorable in a catchy phrase or slogan.
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Define specific goals and action plans. Get clear on who will do what by when.
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Experiment in a test-and-learn approach. Build after-action learning into everything.
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Provide visual progress reporting and leader boards to fuel a healthy competitive spirit and the feeling of progress.
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Share success stories along the way to motivate copy-cat'ing (yes that is a word) and energize action.
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Recognize the people who drove the successes in a genuine spirit of appreciation.
