• Organisation Development – a context
for change
• Adaptive leadership
• Sustainability and corporate citizenship
Organisation Development – a context for change
There appear to be two primary and inter-related
issues to which many organisations are having to respond.
Firstly, there is an ever-increasing focus and reliance on knowledge within
large organisations – knowledge transfer and knowledge creation.
Secondly, organisations are experiencing tremendous complexity, uncertainty and competition – they are needing to respond both faster and smarter. The strategic agenda has an increasingly dynamic quality to it.
Whilst there is widespread recognition for ‘something different’, there is also uncertainty and anxiety about how best to move forward in ways which give the best chance for success.
CQ Consultancy is involved in advancing a more dynamic and relevant approach to Organisational Development, and one which helps harness the collective wisdom within organisations (what we call Cooperative Intelligence, or CQ).
What constitutes CQ?
- High levels of connectivity throughout the organisation and beyond
- Effective relationships and a recognition of the vital role of informal interactions
- Conversational patterns which are enabling (rather than ‘stuck’)
- Adaptive Leadership (this places an emphasis on creating the right conditions such that people can take responsibility for making things happen – distributed influence)
- Alignment of goals and strategy
- A valuing and rewarding of cooperation alongside competition
CQ (Cooperative Intelligence) is essentially a relational phenomena and requires specific conditions for it to emerge and flourish. CQ Consultancy’s role is to help support client organisations in creating these conditions; to bring people together in new ways and across old boundaries and to help incubate new ideas/patterns of organising. Central to the work we do is organisational responsiveness and Adaptive Leadership.
‘What is required
is a level of organisational intelligence and learning that goes far beyond
that which any mechanistic or engineered approach can provide. This level
will not be approached until we begin to think of a corporation as having
an intelligent existence of its own. This new level of organisational
intelligence and learning must totally transform the way in which we organise
for work and organise work itself’
Michael D McMaster (Author)
‘I would not
give a fig for the simplicity on this side of complexity, but I would
give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.’
Oliver Wendell Holmes (Poet and Author)