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Organisation Design

All too often, organisation re-design centres on moving boxes and people around on hierarchical charts. And when it comes to decision-making at a senior level, power and politics are often at play. Our skill is in managing a structured and rigorous process that allows for creativity and focuses on aligning to strategy. This isn’t about cutting and pasting solutions from elsewhere but about figuring out what is right for you.

Working with a design team we create a shared understanding of how the current structure is working in the context of your strategic ambitions, and good practice tests. Based on this we create design principles which allow us to evaluate other structural options. This helps us identify the critical choices and trade-offs at the heart of the design, and to inform implementation planning.

Taking the time to align your organisation design to your strategy is critical for effective delivery.

• Most commonly, we work closely with a small team over an 8 to 12 week period to come up with a new operating model or design
  
• We also support with implementation planning, including working through decision making, governance, communication and talent implications
  
• Beyond this, we are sometimes asked to help individuals, or teams succeed in a new structure
  
• And sometimes, we help you create your own design methodology, and internal capability at an enterprise level, ensuring you can do this independently in the future
  

Participative Strategy

The most powerful strategies tap into the knowledge, creativity and energy of the wider organisation, as well as connecting to a deep sense of purpose.

Too often, strategies developed in the boardroom don’t connect with those outside.

Purpose-full strategy work is about finding the right questions, involving the right people, and holding the right conversations. But it’s easier said than done.

We work closely with leaders, helping them to have lively strategy conversations with their teams and the wider organisation.

High quality involvement from the start means that action flows naturally.

We can:

• Help clarify purpose and vision, taking both an inside out and an outside in perspective
  
• Facilitate strategy development with leadership teams, with a focus on exploring scenarios and futures
  
• Design and run large scale strategy engagement processes involving the whole organisation
  
• Support strategy realisation: helping leadership or project teams make sense of the strategy recommendation they’ve been tasked with and building capability to deliver
  
• Provide coaching and thought partnering on strategy
  

Culture Change

Organisational cultures represent patterns of relationship that are complex and constantly changing

When it comes to creating cultural change, you’re more likely to succeed if you start from (and stay close to) your strategic challenges. These need to be specific, tangible and readily connected to what people do.

We focus on identifying those patterns that are essential to sustainable success as well as those that you would rather do without. We often use creative and engaging methods to hold up a mirror to current ways of working, raising questions about what is helpful. A key part of our support is to help leaders be more conscious of how they create an environment where new possibilities can emerge.

We prefer the idea of enabling a social movement, rather than imposing a culture change programme that has to be planned and managed in conventional ways.

We work with culture in different ways.

• Helping you to you to frame the change in a way that makes sense to everyone in the organisation
  
• Creating a rich description of beliefs, stories and practices that becomes a touchstone of who you are as an organisation
  
• Mobilising large scale engagement and conversation about culture
  
• Building your own capability in this area through coaching and thought partnering
  

Executive Team Development

Teams who regularly reflect on their aims, purpose and dynamics are more effective. We have witnessed too many times how the dysfunctions within a senior team impact the organisation.

We are often asked to facilitate critical conversations about strategy, governance or significant transformation in a senior team or a board.

Our clients tell us that as well as providing structure for discussions, we make a difference by tuning into dynamics, providing real-time feedback on behaviour, and helping shift unhelpful patterns.

Whether we are working on strategy engagement, changes to organisation design or culture, the effectiveness of the senior team is always a determining factor.

In all of our work we pay attention to team dynamics, and sometimes our work with executive teams is more standalone. We can:

• Facilitate critical conversations for Executive teams and Boards
  
• Accelerate new team formation and work with teams in transition
  
• Increase team effectiveness by exploring dynamics and ways of working
  
• Work with individual leaders on specific challenges through coaching or mediation
  

Developing capability

Most often, we work with clients to design something that is just right for them, and builds internal capability at scale. Each year we also run a small number of open enrolment programs.

Whichever format, we tackle participants’ own live organisational issues, helping them find creative and pragmatic ways to make a difference and to develop themselves in the process.

Whether through consulting, or bespoke development interventions, we always focus on building internal capability

As well as drawing on our own research, and long experience of working in and consulting to organisations, peer learning principles are at the heart of the experience with a real focus on practical application

Our Team

Magdalene encourages senior leaders to consider the links between culture, structure and strategy and helps them to engage their organisations to achieve more creative and impactful outcomes.She pays acute attention to the influence of political and group dynamics

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Clients

Whether we are working on strategy engagement, changes to organisation desigHere to help leaders lead change, we are a trusted international partner for large and medium-sized enterprises across private, public and third sectors.

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