Consulting and Facilitation to Change, Create or Sustain Organizational Culture

Organizational culture can support, or undermine, your business goals. An agile workplace culture bolsters your employees’ understanding and performance, and buffers them from unwanted distractions. Today we experience turbulent economic and social conditions that accelerate the pace of organizational change. An organization’s culture guides decision-making even in rough waters. To ensure that your culture provides optimum reinforcement for the successful outcomes you want and need, contact FutureWorks.

Our consultants use the following proven tools, techniques and processes to advise you in managing organizational change as well as creating and sustaining a healthy culture:

Our consultants lead an iterative, pragmatic practice for organizational change. Action research, or action learning, follows a cycle of issue identification, research and inquiry, analysis, planning, implementation and evaluation. All of these steps are done collaboratively in partnership with the client. Results of the evaluation are factored in to the next iteration, and the next, until the desired change is reached.

Offering a whole system, collaborative approach to strategic organizational change and transformation, our consultants facilitate appreciative inquiry as the practice of systematic discovery of the strengths or positive core of an organization when it is “most alive, most effective, and most constructively capable.” (quote from David Cooperrider and Diana Whitney).

In an AI Summit our consultants apply Appreciative Inquiry techniques in a facilitated large group event that involves bringing the whole system or organization together for several days of planning and implementation.

Our consultants lead a three-day, highly collaborative, strategic planning and visioning meeting that relies on mutual learning among participants as a catalyst for voluntary action and follow-through. For more information see: http://www.futuresearch.net/method/whatis/index.cfm

Our consultants plan and facilitate meetings that use Open Space Technology (OST). OST involves a higher level of participant control over the agenda and parallel working sessions to address a central theme of strategic importance to the group, resulting in creative and inspired connections and committed implementation. For more information see: http://www.openspaceworld.org/

Our consultants are skilled in the STS approach to complex organizational work design, or re-design; an approach that recognizes the interaction between people and technology in workplaces and results in increased productivity, improved job satisfaction, and higher quality deliverables.

Organizational change, whether planned and desired or unexpected, requires employees to navigate a transitional period. Our consultants design and facilitate company “rituals” (transition-marking events) to help employees make the shift from the past to the newly created future.

Critical, complex, or potentially combustible meetings need the experienced preparation and facilitation that our consultants bring. We also provide training to build capacity in leaders and managers to effectively facilitate their regular meetings.