Developing and Designing
Thriving Organisations
Organisation Development
Our organisation design and development work focuses on helping clients fuel their strategy by evolving their culture.
Work begins by highlighting the cultural dynamics present in every organisation and then, using our trademarked Thrive Model, we help identify the key levers and interventions required for culture transformation.
Our organisation development approach
Culture
diagnostic
Our culture diagnostic helps
organisations identify the potential opportunities and current barriers to thriving and organisational performance.
Culture
transformation map
Our culture map is developed in partnership with clients to identify clear short and long-term interventions to evolve a thriving culture.
Culture
coaching
Culture coaching supports leaders to foster the practices and behaviours to deliver the outcomes identified in the culture map.
Organisation Development Consulting
Our work in organisation design and development focuses primarily on culture transformation. We draw on our trademarked Thrive Model that identifies the foundational elements of thriving cultures. Our work in organisational culture is designed in partnership with our client to ensure that culture work is in service to the organisation’s purpose and strategy. We draw on a range of culture models appropriate for the client and we also ensure alignment with existing embedded initiatives such as Agile and Six Sigma.
The Thrive Model describes six integral elements for
achieving both group performance and overall wellbeing.
We help leaders to design ways of working that factor in the underlying social foundations for performance: Purpose, Connection, Values, Belonging, Culture and Learning.
Focus Areas
Organisational and culture change
Thriving cultures are created deliberately.
We help leaders understand the human dynamics shaping behaviour, performance and decision making across the system. We diagnose the cultural conditions and barriers to team success, then co-create a transformation map and support leaders through coaching and targeted interventions that embed behavioural change.
Organisation design
We take a fundamentally different approach to organisation design. We start with how humans actually function in groups. Drawing on research on optimal group sizes, we design organisations as networks of teams operating at the right scale for communication, decision making and performance.
Social strategies
We help clients to develop social strategies that prioritise social health, successful teams and a thriving workplace culture. In the new working world, it’s crucial to build environments where individuals can come together, exchange ideas and foster strong connections. A healthy culture is key to driving innovation, wellbeing and organisational success.
Social-spatial design
We approach workplace design using social-spatial strategies to advance the group dynamics that improve team performance and build team bonds. Our partnership with JLL is a nexus of human psychology, group dynamics and workspace design and is revolutionising how organisations attract talent and drive performance.
Culture coaching
Our culture coaching is based on a clear and implementable culture transformation map. To bring the desired culture to life, leaders may need to be equipped with new behaviours and skills. We work individually or in teams (or both) to help leaders develop these new capabilities and fast-track the stickiness of the desired culture.
“In 4 days’ work we got a year’s worth of culture.”
“In 4 days’ work we got a year’s worth of culture.”
CASE STUDIES
Building belonging: Convex
Building belonging and connection for 500 people in a financial services firm through a series of learning workshops over 1.5 days. We were asked to design an unforgettable event that would bolster a sense of belonging buffeted by the pandemic, remote working and rapid growth.
The gathering to be informed by science and shaped by creativity. To involve everyone from the chairman through to the newest recruit. To be joyful, surprising, provocative, relational and celebratory.
Drawing on the Thompson Harrison Collective of artists, actors, ceramicists, professors, designers, musicians, choreographers, magicians, historians, writers and philosophers, we designed an unforgettable immersive shared experience.
Using the research behind our Thrive Model to build bonds of belonging - we laughed, sang, learned, feasted, danced, told stories and made things together. The result? Stronger foundations of trust, discretionary effort and psychological safety: the conditions for performance, innovation and impact.
Interested in delivering your strategy through a shared culture?
Would you like to identify clear interventions to evolve a thriving culture? We would love to help you diagnose your current culture, and map and deliver your aspirational culture. Discover how our trademarked Thrive Model can help identify key levers and interventions required for culture transformation.
