With the tremendous pressure on today’s economy, the evolution of Organizational Development entering a new era has become essential. No longer is it prudent to rely solely on an event-driven model where the focus is on reducing waste through materials and labor (efficiency model).  The effect of a global economy and faltering peripheral industries will continue to adversely affect this model. The event driven model focuses on “Management by Objectives” (MBO’s) and other cost cutting mechanisms that can not generate results fast enough to sustain growth. The organization will succumb to an overwhelming urge for a short term resolution by eliminating headcount and/or adjusting materials based on cost. In either case the finished product is weakened in the eyes of the buyer regardless whether the organization is a service or product provider.

Controlling positive growth allows an organization to:

• Instill confidence throughout the organization
• Engage windows of opportunity early in their life cycle
• Attract and maintain the “right” employees
• Effectively lower the resistance to change
• Create opportunities to exceed profit and ROI expectations

 Controlling negative growth allows the organization to:

• Recover much more quickly
• Utilize its developed human talent
• Effectively lower the resistance to change.

The Maximizing Talent instrument provides a method to measure to what extent the organization is focused on “Maximizing the Talent”. This instrument provides management the ability to:

• Set the focus
• Set the direction
• Amend the culture.

 The areas of diagnostics include:

• Job Knowledge,
• Communication Skills,
• Quality of Work,
• Problem Solving,
• Ability to respond to Change,
• Reduction of Confusion.

The instrument allows management to identify how staff and supervisors respond within specific groups, in different groups and with different management.  

It is a teaching experience that focuses not on good or bad but on developing leadership skills.