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#1. I’m an OD/HR/Management consultant. How can I use this survey? Short Answer:
We deliver the Organizational Effectiveness Survey results to you. Those results include explicit recommendations for actions to address the issues with the greatest potential improvements in effectiveness. You can use the results in whatever way applies best to your case. We have found the results most effective when presented and discussed in a management retreat and then, ideally, in follow-up management gatherings. The survey gives you a solid basis to lead the organization into higher awareness and impactful implementation.
Long Answer:
You can wrap our Survey into your proposal to a prospective client company. That will differentiate you from other consultants. (You can arrange with us to have your logo appear on the survey.)
Our survey is an excellent way to begin an engagement with a client company. It starts you off with an effective way to engage many people in the client company, by having them respond to the survey.
It provides a basis for you to make solid recommendations for action. Your proposals for those actions will have a great deal of credibility, based as they are on our objective benchmarked survey and analysis. But we keep you in the driver’s seat: We lay out findings and recommendations -- you choose what to do.
It objectively uncovers management issues that call for dialogue between organizational layers.
It gives the executives and employees of your client company an anonymous way to surface concerns to you.
It saves you days of discussions you’d spend uncovering key issues, a cost- and time-effective alternative to lots of one-to-one interviews.
We recommend tying the survey in to a management retreat. Running the survey gives you a “two-day head start” on that retreat, since it provides you with all the initial issue-uncovering discussions you need. Many of our recommendations can be used to design sessions in that retreat. In fact, you can organize the entire retreat around the findings of the survey.
We also recommend that you propose that the survey be run every 6 or 12 months. Our scores and findings can be used to quantitatively track your client company’s progress in addressing the concerns raised in the first engagement, and to uncover new concerns to be addressed in the second phase of your engagement, and so on. That sets up a means to conduct a very effective ongoing relationship with the client company.
We maintain a very active development staff. We are very receptive to ideas for how to adapt the Survey to your particular needs.
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