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Challenging the aftermath of global financial depression

"more with less!"
New diagnostic work completed by The Leadership Advocacy predicts that the UK's managers will need to deliver "more with less" in the next financial year. Getting good at driving greater performance with fewer resources will be the name of the game.

"Fire fighting"
The latest opinion survey conducted by The Leadership Advocacy indicates that the majority of managers working in the UK today feel they spend most of their time fighting "high priority organisational fires" rather than doing their "day job"! This scenario is often described as frustrating and counterproductive by managers at the "coal face".

Rock Bottom
Senior management teams are forced to admit that staff engagement figures have reached an all time low

Euro Surge hits bottom line
Department heads look for more ways to cut costs without sacrificing quality to compensate for weakness of sterling

Do any of these headlines have parallels with your organisation?

If they do you may have tried:

  • External coaches and mentors
  • Leadership models and behavioural frameworks
  • Employee engagement surveys
  • Talent management
  • Team development
  • HR Business Partnering
  • L&D Centres of Excellence
  • Vision, mission and values
  • Partnering Business Schools and Universities

and many other activities to try to fix the problems, so the question is just how much of this activity has actually been converted into something sustainable back in the workplace?

We believe that the current common approach to driving organisational performance isn’t sustainable and yet the skills and energy you need are often already within your organisation.

Changing the perspective from which you think enables you to create sustainable breakthroughs. Add cutting edge organisational technologies and you can embed better ways of working together.

Performance in your business could be better?

Lets talk about an exciting alternative approach to business improvement…

Call Fiona Hayes on 07590 425621 or Andrew Porter on 07958 615258 or email info@orioninitiatives.com

About Us

People, Planet and Profit

We are facing crises of continually increasing severity and magnitude globally. For our planet to thrive 'business as usual' is not an option.

The best and most creative solutions to complex problems manifest when they are created within the team, however for the solution to emerge from within the team with a real excitement to make it happen requires time and space and for each person to be heard. This is not easy to achieve when, at the same time as trying to find a solution, the team is keeping the every day 'business as usual' going.

Orion provides a complete approach to innovation and change for NGO's, Corporations and Medium Sized Companies by providing all of the elements that encourage innovative and new approaches in an atmosphere that is designed to be most conducive to new 'sense-making' and to understanding fully the wider world issues and emerging new possibilities.

The solutions and innovations then birthed are supported with organisational development consultancy and coaching in the context of the every day running of the organisation and with tools and techniques appropriate for that particular change intervention.