Change in Leadership: SSOE The Company SSOE is a professional engineering, architectural, and construction management firm with projects in more than 40 countries. Starting in 1948, SSOE has grown into a top 10 firm with about 1,000 employees across 20+ locations in 6 countries. It has earned a reputation for high quality delivery…
One of the greatest impediments to successfully executing a strategic plan is the organization’s culture. If the two are not aligned, success is elusive at best. However, successful organizations have “cracked the code” and have become purposeful in aligning their unique culture to their strategy. They have taken culture out of the shadows, crystallized their…
Don’t Build Your Company Culture – Manage It! If you have an interest in Organizational Development and related topics, you’ve probably noticed an uptick in articles on “How to build a great company culture in # simple steps!”. The promise is that by following those steps, you’ll make your organization’s culture…
What is culture? When you think of organizational culture, what comes to mind? Most people respond to this question by stating that culture is “the vibe around the office” or “how people treat each other”. Some talk about pizza parties and vacation policy, and still others try to be specific by…
Deploy Action Plans Managers to Leaders Although the words may sometimes be used interchangeably, a manager is not always a leader. Work Effects focuses on making this shift to ensure sustainable change. Some managers have a natural investment in quality leadership, others couldn’t be paid to attend a leadership seminar, and the majority…
Lasting Change Comes First In most corporate-wide change initiatives, people form functional committees to change the policies and procedures, which often fail. Sustainability is missing from these action plans, so changes can just be made to the new policy again next week. Work Effects takes a holistic approach that ensures everyone is on the same…
DISCOVER ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE Creating a Unified Voice Senior leaders, try as they may, do not have eyes and ears in every department or team. This means what a leader may identify as a priority for transformation, or as an effective leader, team members may not agree. This leads to strategies and processes that may…
DEFINE STRATEGY CULTURE ALIGNMENT Culture Drives Performance Senior leaders often focus on strategy and the processes to get to those strategies. However, the plans tend to look better on paper than in practice, once you run into the molasses of culture stopping momentum in its tracks. At Work Effects, we often hear leaders say…