Leadership Roles in Organisational Design

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The Key Components of an Organisational Design Programme

A company’s structure must align with its objectives and culture to ensure business success. Organisational design principles help facilitate this alignment. The first step in this process should be to examine the company’s current goals and determine to what extent the existing structure and culture may be assisting or hindering efforts to achieve them.

The purpose of this step should not be to defend or condemn the current practices or the people responsible for them. Instead, it should be to discuss, develop and agree on the strategies necessary to redefine the way forward. However, reaching a consensus on an approach that will guarantee the required outcomes can be challenging and will invariably be best achieved by expert interventions from an objective third-party organisational design consultancy.

The following are the essential elements of a successful business design addressed by the Orgro team as part of our overall organisational development programme:

Gaining accurate insight: Developing new and improved future strategies involves conducting a frank appraisal of those currently in use and requires close consultation and cooperation between ourselves and our clients. To that end, our specialists will begin by compiling a detailed overview of your prevailing leadership practices, processes, communications, and the perceptions and attitudes of your personnel.

When viewed together, these parameters will provide a measure of your company’s “climate”, a factor that can directly influence its behaviour patterns and, by extension, the success or failure of its performance.

Revising objectives: Routine business practices have evolved dramatically with technological advances. Also, consumer needs, preferences and buying habits are constantly changing. However, all too often, companies fail to modify goals and objectives accordingly.

Though essential, it is not sufficient for managers and their staff to be aligned with these. A crucial part of our organisational design process is to help businesses ensure their goals are also in line with market needs. The Orgro team will assist you in identifying where additional goals or revisions may be necessary and implementing them to maximum effect.

Appointing a team: The success of any company depends on the optimal use of its talent and capable leaders. Identifying and forming them into a cohesive unit is a well-established strategy to empower staff to champion the necessary transformative processes from within and thus strengthen the overall process through willing collaboration. Change champions, therefore, play a key role in ensuring the effectiveness of our organisational design initiatives.

Managing change: The business world has long ceased to be static. Change has become the new norm in the wake of disruptive technologies like the World Wide Web, big data and cryptocurrencies. Who knows what else might change with the rise of machine learning and artificial intelligence? Perhaps the only certainty is that it will be crucial for businesses to be sufficiently flexible to adapt rather than die.

The Orgro approach is to develop innovative solutions through action-based research in close collaboration with your executives and staff throughout each step in the process from inception to implementation, evaluation and refinement.

The Importance of effective leadership in organisational design

Of all the factors discussed in the preceding paragraphs, none is more crucial for success in any attempt to revamp or repurpose an organisation than having well-informed, enthusiastic leaders to drive the necessary changes. Good leaders will attract the loyalty of those assigned to the various tasks that, together, form the core elements of a company’s change process.

Orgro recognises the exceptional value of confident, competent leaders. If required, we can apply psychometric tests to evaluate existing managers and team leaders or identify other staff members with leadership potential within your organisation. Once we have identified these, we can provide appropriate training and personalised coaching to optimise the existing or potential leadership qualities essential to transform your organisation.

Why top companies choose Orgro to streamline their organisational design

Orgro is a member of the Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology of South Africa and the Health Professions Council of South Africa, specialising in training and development, psychometric assessment, conflict management and organisational development.

Italtile, Volkswagen Financial Sevices, Enza Construction, Switch Telecom and UNICEF are just a few of the many prestigious organisations that have chosen to benefit from our services. If you want to future-proof your company, adapt smoothly to change, and optimise your performance, click here to learn more about our organisational design services.