Whether you're part of a business needing to respond to dramatic macro-economic changes, or a local government needing to completely re-think how it engages citizens and delivers services, 'transformation' seems to offer an increasingly attractive solution.

Yet many leaders are not experienced in, or skilled at, such radical organisational turnaround - and mistakes are made which then have significant long-term impact. Typically, leaders get caught between an instinct to bring pace and urgency, which then risks lack of alignment, engagement and attention to detail - and a wish to minimise risk and therefore meticulously plan, which then militates against the type of 'fresh' changes that are required.

A further problem that often arises, is that the connection between the ‘transformation work’ and ‘business as usual’ is not made for the wider organisation - so the 'transformation' is either experienced as exhausting or irrelevant, and never gets fully integrated.

At Integral Change, we specialise in helping leaders and top teams find a way between these two extremes via a suite of 'minimal interventions' that enables elegant, clear and results-oriented leadership, while also ensuring managers and staff remain both engaged and connected to each other through the upheavals. This means that the more subtle ways in which people work together for one purpose can thrive.

Our approach could involve:

• Top team work to ensure alignment around transformation ‘mechanics’/strategy, while also attending to the relationships across the top team and beyond that hold the key to success
  
  
• An extended leadership team event to engage the top 50-100 leaders in the transformation, creating a shared sense of the organisation’s story - past, present and future - and ensuring the engagement of middle-management, rather than allowing a 'victim' mindset to take hold
  
  
• Process work with key teams to shift blocks and ‘fast track’ understanding of the key issues, thus catalysing real sustainable progress and quicker results.

For a provocative take on 'transformation', see our home-made video - The Trouble with Change