VISION QUEST
Facilitating ideation & new possibilities
for top leadership
Here we help leaders create a future possibility and break that down into specific goals. We use an appreciative and systems perspective to get everyone on board and drive initiatives that are meaningful at an organizational and personal level.
Sometimes we find that the current organisation culture is not supportive of the strategy and growth plans of the organization. In this case we help leaders understand the current culture and co create a desired culture framework including Vision, Mission and values
target areas under vision quest
top team effectiveness
Building a cohesive senior leadership team that walks the talk, inspires the organisation with a common vision and strategy, and drives execution.
ODA believes a Top Team Initiative needs to focus on three Things :
Improving Personal Effectiveness & Leadership Competency
Improving Alignment
Improving Execution & Implementation Capability
Organisation Transformation & Culture Change
Without shifts in culture and leadership, the old norms cause an organisation’s transformation to fail. At ODA we believe that organisational transformation requires cultural change, and that cultural change requires leadership change.
Our goal in undertaking cultural change work for our clients is to purposefully and actively build their capability for new ways of working to drive the transformational agenda.
Transformational solution is not only redesigning structure, re-engineering processes, installing new technology, releasing new products, or altering business processes but also includes a culture of greater accountability, empowerment, openness, collaboration, innovation, and trust. We believe that the success of a transformational agenda requires leadership change because radical shifts in organisational culture require leaders and the workforce to operate and work together differently.
Executive Coaching
ODA is a thought leader in this area, as its Managing Director wrote the first book on Executive Coaching in India. All ODA coaching interventions are based on the published coaching model.
Most of our coaching has been at the leadership level. Through executive coaching we support a leader in achieving the results that are important to his or her personal success and the long-term success of his or her organisation. We assume that the client is an expert on his or her own leadership. Our role as a coach is to draw out the client’s expertise through inquiry, curiosity, and gentle challenges. We are attentive to the client’s physical, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual state. We seek a mutual understanding of the organisational culture and systems which the client leads.
Client Engagements : Organizational Cultural Transformation
Client :
Large Global Life Science Major
Context :
Co-create a global organization culture change for the company to plan its way to next orbit of growth by utilizing the collective power of its most important resource people.
Solution :
We studied the environment, culture, context and business model and:
- Diagnosed the culture across a cross-section of the organisation, covering employees from all functions and from across the global offices.
- Subsequently met the senior management and direct reports for a 2 day offsite to ascertain elements of the present organisation culture and create an inspirational benchmark.
- Designed a “Cultural Transformation” workshop and implemented the same in 20+ locations across the globe.
- Helped senior management over a 2 day offsite to understand insights on the culture from across the different parts of the organisation. They committed to walking the talk to transform the culture of the organisation.
- Designed Train the Trainer program for internally chosen leaders to take this culture change intervention to deeper parts of the organisation.
Client Engagements : Functional Excellence
Client :
Global Cement Major
Context :
Develop functional excellence for Procurement, Logistics, Sales, HR, IT and Finance.Being a new company in India there were lot of scope for improving functional capacity to be the best in class and grow the bottom line.
Solution :
Functional Excellence program to support, coach and build capability for each functions :
Step 1: Map As-Is
- Define Stages of Excellence for each of the functions. Create buy in.
- Partner with the core team to map As-Is state of each of the functions on the Stages Of Excellence.
Step 2 : Define the Roadmap & Vision
- Design and run a workshop for Functional Vision, Strategy, Structure, Role and building requisite team spirit.
- Design and Deliver 1 workshop each for each functions and 4 for Sales (for each Region). With all key stakeholders.
Step 3 : Coach the Plant Heads (intensive)
- 12 sessions over 6 months for each Plant Head to walk the talk and lead their team.
Step 4 : Reviews
- Planned reviews on the progress of each Functions.
Client Engagements : Value Cascade
Client :
Global Diversified Metals and Mining Major
Context :
Transformation for turnaround performance in 6 months for the company in Africa.
Solution :
Studied the environment, context, culture, business model. Designed and implemented a 6 month intervention for middle and junior managers in Africa after a detailed diagnostic.
- Designed and conducted workshops on the right attitudinal skills, Team Working & Collaboration
- TTT workshop for leaders to cascade the attitudinal skills program
- Large Group Intervention (more than 200 people) using LSIP model for co creating aspirations