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Strategy & Change Consulting

As an award-winning consulting firm for organizational development, we offer you all consulting services for an

agile
flexible
fast
adaptable
and livable organization
with clear goals
transparent areas of responsibility
a leadership culture that releases energy and promotes talents
and an organizational structure that is oriented towards strategic goals and optimal processes
and in which your managers and employees feel comfortable.

We ensure the anchoring of the desired new culture & new structure in daily actions.

This is the result of initio’s organizational development consulting.

Inhaltsverzeichnis:

1 Organizational Development Consulting: What’s it about?
2 Our Consulting Offer in OD
3 Our Approach in Organizational Development Consulting
4 Success Factor: Effective Process Architecture
5 Agile Approach
6 Our Approach – Step by Step
7 Consulting Organizational Development: who Needs to be Involved?
8 Unser Angebot in Organisationsentwicklung
9 Let’s talk!

Organizational Development Consulting: What’s it about?

Organizational development consulting supports organizations in shaping change processes and improving processes, structures and cultures. The goal is to increase the performance and flexibility of the organization, enhance adaptability and better involve employees.

Core topics of organizational development consulting are:

Strategy and Change: “The way forward” and necessary measures
Innovation and Development: Always being future-proof and sustainable
Organizational structure and design: Agile or “classic” organizational forms
Best possible collaboration: Structures, processes, interfaces
Targeted cultural change: Adapting operating systems when environmental complexity increases
Motivation and Leadership: Further development, unfolding and involvement of employees and managers

Our Consulting Offer in OD

Strategy Development

Develop Strategies
Consulting on strategy development and implementation
Conducting effective strategy processes
Facilitation of Strategy Workshops

Change Management

Change management consulting
The biggest mistakes in change processes
Change Management “Checklist”

Innovation

Organizational Consulting

Organizational Design / Optimal Organizational Form
Agile Organizational Forms
Re-Organization

Agile Organization

Agile organizational development
Forms of Self-Organization
Holacracy
Agile Transformation

Process Management and Process Optimization

Optimization of Workflows, Interfaces, Processes

Change Management

Implementation Consulting

Implementation of Strategies, Realization of Goals
Effective Strategy Development Model
Consulting on Strategy Development

Cultural Transformation and Cultural Change

Mission Statement Development

Team, Collaboration, Leadership & Motivation

Leadership Development

Beratung, Seminare und Trainings in Führungskräfteentwicklung
Trainings-Format “Leadership-Journey”
Methoden im Überblick

Large Group Moderation

Overview of all essential methods and comparison
Consulting on Large Group Processes and Moderation
Organizing Understanding Processes Between Stakeholder or Participant Groups

Cooperation Management

Founding, Further Development and Professionalization of Networks, Establishment and Expansion of Cooperations

Our Approach in Organizational Development Consulting

Strategic business development needs space and time.
And smart minds thinking together.

To find solutions for complex future issues, it requires the knowledge and experience of all relevant control points, power centers and knowledge carriers. We systematically and methodically work with

Top Management
Middle Management Level
Team Leads
Experts and Knowledge Carriers
Formal and Informal Power Centers

and involve them in the relevant development processes and discourses.

Success Factor: Effective Process Architecture

The essence of effective organizational development is discourse.

So that

the appropriate stakeholders
for relevant questions
in a coordinated, meaningful sequence
in effective formats

develop suitable solutions, we develop an effective process architecture at the beginning of each consulting process. Here’s an example from a (real) change project in a sales department of a German medium-sized company:

Beratung Organisationsentwicklung Prozessarchitektur — Beispiel einer wirkungsvollen Prozessarchitektur aus einem Organisationsberatung-Prozess

Agile Approach

More complex organizational development projects often require a step-by-step approach. An agile consulting approach quickly initiates implementation and adjusts where and when necessary:

Agile Organisationsentwicklung - Schema — Agile Organisationsentwicklung: Typisches Vorgehen

Even when an “agile transformation” is the goal of the reorganization, we work in “agile mode”.

We have described our exact approach and attitude in the context of agile organizational development in detail here.

Zielgerichtete Diskurse organisieren

Organisationen gliedern sich in Geschäftsfelder, Abteilungen und Funktionen. Diese Organisationseinheiten verfolgen ihre spezifischen Aufgaben und entwickeln dadurch ihre eigenen Interessen, die Sie wahren müssen, um ihrer Aufgabe gerecht zu werden.

Daher interpretiert jeder Teil der Organisation das Ziel des Unternehmens auf seine eigene Weise. Dabei sind die Wahrnehmungen meist interessengeleitet und nicht notwendigerweise auf ein gemeinsames Ziel ausgerichtet.

Diese unterschiedlichen Auffassungen treffen an den Schnittstellen der Ablauforganisation aufeinander. Konflikte und mitunter hohe Reibungsverluste sind die Konsequenzen, die in vielen Unternehmen zur Tagesordnung gehören.

Durch die unterschiedlichen Auffassungen wird Verständigung schwer. Was für die einen dabei rational erscheint, ist für die anderen noch lange nicht nachvollziehbar.

Verständigung muss mit den relevanten Beteiligtengruppen erarbeitet werden. In diesen Einigungsprozessen verständigen sich die unterschiedlichen Unternehmensteile auf gemeinsame Lösungen. Das erfordert Diskurse, hierarchieübergreifend und jenseits klassischer “Silo-Strukturen”.

Als erfahrene Berater in Organisationsentwicklung verfügen wir dazu über das nötige Hintergrundwissen und bewährte Formate.

Our Approach – Step by Step

Together with you, we develop a tailored and coherent concept and continuously adapt it to current requirements in agile adjustment loops during the ongoing process (keyword: “Continuous Improvement Process” – CIP).

Here is a rough outline of a typical approach:

Assignment and Context Clarification
If necessary, Interviews
Summary and reflection of results, conclusions, and working hypotheses
Formulating goals and desired effects
For larger projects: Development of a “change architecture“
For workshops and short interventions: Development of workshop designs
Conducting the workshops
(Interim) evaluation of achieved goals and effects
Continuous adjustment of the project – re-alignment of approach and goals
Stabilization and assessment once the pre-agreed consulting objectives have been achieved

Consulting Organizational Development: who Needs to be Involved?

Understanding as a Leadership Task

Understanding about

the “right direction“
a goal-oriented implementation strategy
planned mastering of future challenges

is a central leadership task.

Involve Knowledge Carriers in a Counterflow Procedure

At the same time, understanding usually cannot be ordered “top-down” from the management level.

And it’s equally unhelpful to let solutions be determined by employees in pure “bottom-up” processes. In both approaches, often only the existing is continued.

For complex topics, one often needs the knowledge, experience, and contributions of several corporate units to arrive at truly sustainable solutions.

Understanding must therefore be reciprocal: With a content framework “from above” and the expertise of stakeholders “from below”.

With directional decisions, the question is not what it costs to lead a discourse – but rather what it costs not to lead one.
Thomas Sattelberger, former Telekom board member

Effective Process Architecture

We therefore develop with you a process architecture in which the essential questions and topics in the organizational development process are solved.

Arbeit nach dem Gegenstromprinzip (Beispiel= — Agile Organisationsentwicklung: Typisches Vorgehen

This discursive approach simultaneously leads to the participants adopting the concern and supporting it.

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Advantages and Effects of our Approach

With our discursive consulting approach in organizational development, we ensure that

truly tailored solutions are created
all relevant levels of the organization are involved in solution development
we are consequently faster in implementation
newly developed solutions and concepts are first tested, adjusted and then can transition into regular operation in a “stable” version
The knowledge in your organization is utilized and further developed
That your managers and employees can take responsibility from the start and co-shape the change
Your brightest minds see a motivating future perspective even after the change
The changes are accepted and implemented with creative energy

References

Many companies have already benefited from our 19 years of experience in consulting projects. See here an excerpt of our references from consulting in organizational development.

Unser Angebot in Organisationsentwicklung

Buchen Sie unsere kostenfreie Erstberatung!

Wir haben mehr als 21 Jahre Erfahrung in Organisationsentwicklungs-Prozessen und beraten Sie gern!

Vereinbaren Sie hier ein kostenfreies Erstgespräch!

FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions about our Organizational Development Consulting

Was ist Organisationsentwicklungs-Beratung?

Organisationsentwicklung umfasst vier Hauptfelder: Strategie & Veränderung, Führung & Teams, Struktur & Prozesse, Unternehmenskultur & Leitbilder. Hier ein kompletter Überblick aller Detailfragen und -themen.

Wie aufwändig ist die Beratung bzw. was kostet sie?

Das kommt darauf an, um welche Themen es letztlich geht. Viele Themen lassen sich mit 1-3 Tagen Beratung schon sehr wirkungsvoll bearbeiten. In einem kostenfreien Erstgespräch geben wir Ihnen dazu eine erste Einschätzung.

Was zeichnet initio aus in der OE-Beratung?

Unter anderem diese Faktoren: Inhaltliche Expertise und Erfahrung, handwerkliche Exzellenz, unser Blick auf auf die inhaltliche, soziale und zeitliche Dimensionen von Entwicklungsprozessen, unser effizientes Vorgehen – und sicherlich auch unsere Referenzen.

Let’s talk!

We have more than 21 years of experience and will be happy to advise you!

Book your free initial consultation. We will get in touch with you.

Enthusiastic Customer Opinions

Thank you very much for the highly professional and motivating implementation of the Open Space. The feedback from the participants was consistently positive.

Thank you again for the great workshop – we have already started implementing the first suggestions and are having a lot of fun doing so.

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I’m always thrilled to work with professionals – Thank you very much for the goal-oriented moderation!

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4-day workshop and yet: playful, creative, inspiring and structured with good methodology. Highly recommended.

Objective, constructive, optimistic – You have put us on course. Thank you to initio – I will definitely recommend you!

The DAV sincerely thanks initio for their support on this sometimes challenging journey. A mission statement of this quality would not have been possible without initio, and above all, we would not have conducted the discussion so openly. We are grateful for this impetus.

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Her expertise received 9.5 out of 10 possible points, her teaching 8.8 and the learning atmosphere 9.7 points. Top!

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