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Living in uncertain times: Organisation dynamics in response to uncertainty

What happens in organisations when their environment moves from relative stability and predictability to one of turbulence, uncertainty and continuous change? Download our article on how leaders can support people to adapt to such environments.

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Difficult times?

Dealing with the current change agenda in the context of the current global financial crisis? Read on if you are interested in how we might be able to help you....

We support you with the quality of your thinking at this time - beyond facilitation, we offer our expertise in getting to the bottom of your thinking and that of others in the organisation. We also bring some insight and knowledge about organisational design, leading change, managing talent, market choices, portfolio reduction, consolidation of services, and cutting costs without cutting the life out of the organisation…

We help you to make the most of your own resources before we throw in our own expertise, rather than offering "here's one we thought of before"…

Rather than working in separation, analysing the business situation and then coming back with solutions (which you kind of knew already anyway) we think together with you and support you in finding your own solutions and implementing them. We would help you in opening up your senior team's thinking to the rest of the organisation to create more transparency and individual accountability and responsibility for outcomes even for people who are negatively affected by those outcomes...

Making the most of this burning platform to do what you have known for a while needs to happen but didn't quite get around to…

working with the senior team who are making key decisions:

  • to be sensitive to the feedback from the market
  • to help them to figure out how to face up to constraints of the situation
  • to creatively respond to those constraints with an innovative design
  • to help them to articulate and face up to the difficult consequences and help them to implement change with bravery and compassion.

How do you transform ourselves properly rather than tinker at the edges?

We help you to do the bold pruning that renews your organisation, rather than clumsy or badly timed cuts or tweaks that allows the organisation to survive or recover with all its old chronic baggage.

Please call us on +44 (0)1442 841380 for a conversation about your challenge and how we can help.

Ashridge Consulting - bringing about change in organisations

Leading Virtual Teams

We are delighted with all the positive feedback we have received from participants of our first global Virtual Leadership programme.

The fifteen Senior Managers from Europe, South and North America and the Far East participated online in four-hourly sessions over a period of five days. The sessions were facilitated by Ghislaine Caulat and Sally Hulks, and are based on research carried out by Ghislaine over the last three years.

Talent Management Research

Phase II of our research Talent Management - Maximising talent for business, conducted in collaboration with the Chartered Management Institute has now been completed. Together with Talent Management - A Strategic Imperative it represents a significant contribution to the TM debate. Key findings from both research studies are available for purchase by emailing celia.tucker@ashridge.org.uk

Developing Consultants

Ashridge Consulting provides a range of programmes to develop Consulting and Coaching skills from short open courses to Masters and Doctorate programmes.

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