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Using Type to Help Organizations Meet the Challenges of Today’s Realities
Lay-offs, cutbacks, bailouts, stimulus, unprecedented public scrutiny, lower earnings, stock prices
tanked - this is a very challenging time for organizations, their leaders and their employees. We don’t
have the silver bullet that will change the realities - but we do have research and experience that will
help the organization’s people develop skills to survive these turbulent times.
Even before the recent recession, ongoing change has been an integral part of working in the 21st century. Developments
in technology and communications are driving a global economic revolution;
and, like previous economic revolutions, the impacts ripple out into social
relationships, value systems, political alliances, religious affiliations,
and individual identity.
Research consistently reports that current change solutions – whether
mergers, acquisitions, restructuring, downsizing, or outsourcing –
overwhelmingly fail to achieve the stated objectives. In spite of this
research, organizations continue to institute changes, with no end in
sight.
While nations and organizations struggle to identify ways to survive
and be effective in the new economic and political environment, individuals
must deal with the day-by-day disruptions and, at the same time, with
fundamental changes in the relationship between people and work:
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Finding economic security and job satisfaction during this revolution
is a challenge we all face, and the rules of the game keep changing.
Research and Practice
Drawing on research with more than 3,000 people, our organizational
change consulting and training focus on the PROCESS – what individuals
need to survive and prosper in the current environment. We provide information
and perspective to help people understand more fully their own reactions
to the changes, to recognize their individual contributions to their work
groups and organizations, and to become more aware of the aspects of change
that are particularly challenging to them.
In this work, we use psychological type and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®
(MBTI®) instrument to assist individuals and organizations in dealing
more effectively with change. This approach has proven effective for people
at all levels in organizations, from leadership teams to hourly and temporary
employees, and in a wide variety of cultures and countries.
We believe using this approach consistently can assist individuals in
developing the resilience and flexibility necessary to survive and thrive
in the current environment.
For Leaders and Organizations
Much of our work on organizational change involves working with leadership
teams to assess the current needs of an organization and to design training
and coaching programs that respond to those identified needs. Applying information
from our research allows us to target specific issues that make a difference
in the success or failure of organizational change plans.
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