Success in transition

We have created 4 areas of support for leaders and their organisations.

Consulting

As experienced organisation consultants, we bring a wealth of expertise to whole system issues of transition. Increasingly we are being asked to support the integration and consolidation of the “human system” following mergers and acquisitions.

In our consulting projects on organisational transitions, we work with both management teams and individual leaders to address

cultural differences and assumptions that can divide and polarise
the development of a new corporate culture and identity
leading in a larger context

In such contexts, new leaders need three main things to succeed:

A clear “line of sight” about their transition
They need to be aware of what really (and inevitably) lies ahead in their new transition – which will not be a repetition of the ones they have had before
A deeper understanding of themselves
Deeper competence as a leader comes less from just repeating what has worked in the past, than from a deep understanding of their own drivers and blind spots
New skills to manage inevitable tensions involved in
- Establishing effective relationships
- Developing the right decision-making style
- Fixing one’s mission
- Settling “stay-leave” people issues
- Holding conflicting loyalties
- Getting the highest sustainable pace of change

We undertake assessments of the current leadership culture and its “fit” to the strategic goals of the merged organisation.

Find out more about our current projects

Navigator

This is our own open programme for executive leaders taking up a new role. We are currently working with senior leaders from government and the private sector who have to succeed in the following sample of situations:

Integrating within an established UK operation a newly acquired business with a different culture and values. Harmonising the UK operation – which is itself part of a larger global business – brings the need for aligning different perspectives and goals, sensitivity to different national as well as corporate cultures .
Re-building confidence in a government department that has delivered poor results in a highly sensitive area of national policy. This role demands both political astuteness as well as leadership deftness in order to raise morale and confidence.

Download our Navigator brochure for further details of this open programme.

Coaching

Individual on-demand support, where and when you want it.
We provide 1:1 coaching over a 6 month period for leaders taking up new roles. We bring to our coaching the same tried and tested tools and frameworks as we use elsewhere in our work. Psychological profiling, using our Leadership Transition questionnaire and de-briefed by our psychologist, Dr john Roscoe, is also available as part of coaching support.

“the psychological profiling and feedback done by The Turning Point’s psychologist John Roscoe: I have never had such insightful and direct feedback about myself before. Through it, I believe that I deepened my self-awareness significantly”.

On-boarding: Facilitating Executive Transitions – USA programme

In 2008 we are offering, for the first time in the USA, a workshop for business leaders, HR professionals, coaches and consultants on the key ideas and approaches in effective transitions. Led by 2 of The Turning Point’s principal consultants, this is a short, intense immersion into what transitions are all about. Learn more and register for the programme.