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To move mountains, we must move minds. To achieve ever higher
levels of organization performance, we must move the minds in that organization.
The "affective
mind" is that portion of the brain that deals with feelings,
that part of the brain that deals with the softer-side of
business strategy development and with people’s willingness
to embrace, then sustain change. The softer variables most
commonly pulled from top selling leadership and change management
texts include:
- sense
of pride with Strategic Business Units' role and mission
- sense
of belonging and mattering
- having
your ideas listened to and valued
- having
real friends among your co-workers;
- fear
forced out by fun; and
- meaningful
engagement and sense of control over your work and the potential
to achieve personal and professional goals.
Our research
shows that if you want great results that are lasting, and
results that are achieved in the most cost effective use of
time and money, you must have greater
engagement from all players. You must start their
engagement at the beginning – by engaging them to help
address the basic definitions of who you are, where you’re
going and how you intend to get there. Great engagement comes
from having interdisciplinary and interdepartmental teams
probing and answering your most challenging business questions.
These folks must participate fully in the four classic phases
of strategy development:
- Situation
analysis (Where are we today?)
- Goal
formulations (Where should we be going?)
- Resource
mobilizations (How shall we get there?)
- Performance
monitoring and results celebration. (Are we getting these?)
Peak performance
requires the steady pursuit of above-average engagement in
each of these four phases of decision making.
The
Power of 8™ Tool Kit provides templates and engagement
process ideas that can maximize your successful involvement
of your stakeholders in these four phases.
Thriving
in your organization’s "High Performance Domain" requires
high degrees of engagement from all of your key strategy development
players. High degrees of engagement require connecting with
and an unleashing of the mind’s affective domain. (refer
to our downloadable text: Moving
Mountains by Moving Minds)
See
also:
Results
from Peak Performance Enhancement
Process Improvement
New Mind Sets for Success
Satisfied Workforce
The Engagement Quotient™
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