At Hawthorn Business Group we know what’s required to drive your vision consistently and create the business and the culture that you’re seeking.
We’d love to talk to you about it.
Hawthorn Business Group
What sort of business do you want?
What do you want your culture to be?
We ask these questions of many businesses and as you'd expect we get a wide variety of answers.Most will be concerned with growth in revenues and profitability.Some will use terms like high performing and market leading, others will say they want to be customer-focussed, while others will say they want to build a strong culture around their people.
Culture
In business today, indeed in life generally, we are pulled from pillar to post by numerous and varied challenges and priorities. Work harder; find more customers; improve efficiencies; get more from your staff; reduce expenditure. It sometimes seems never ending.
But what does this mean for your business? It's easy to get bogged down on these things and forget about the culture that you were trying to develop in the first place.
Most businesses have a clear vision of where they want to go. But stating this vision is the easy part; putting it into practice on a consistent and disciplined basis is much harder. We believe most businesses find this challenging.
Delivering On Your Vision
Ask yourself these questions:
- Have you identified the activities & behaviours that will ensure that your people at all levels are bringing your vision to life?
- Are these activities & behaviours completed regularly and consistently by your people?
- Are these activities & behaviours role modelled by all managers, particularly Executive and Senior Managers?
- Do your managers give their people feedback on the application of these activities & behaviours, coach and mentor them, and hold them responsible and accountable?
- Is your best your best everywhere?
The Challenge
If you've answered 'yes' to all 5 of these questions, well done, you sound like you are delivering on your vision!
What we typically find, however, is that businesses apply many of the required activities and behaviours inconsistently and therefore struggle to make their stated vision a way of life. Thus, consistent delivery of their vision remains out of reach.
Where's Your Focus?
No matter what business you're in, whether you're for profit or not, the end delivery of your product or service to meet the real needs of your target market must be at the core of your being.
Many businesses lose sight of their most important objective - their customers - so maintaining an external focus is essential.
The Answer
Consistent delivery of your vision requires:
- Development of best practice and process around the key activities & behaviours and development of specific leadership competencies in line with your vision.
- A set of clearly defined, measurable practices related to these key areas that managers at all levels commit to carrying out on a regular, disciplined, skilled and enthusiastic basis and without fail.
- Upskilling of all your people to carry out these practices. Measuring and rewarding the right behaviours.
The success of your business is dependant upon managers at all levels leading and managing to the activities & behaviours necessary for success.
None of this will happen by accident, or even because you've communicated a clear vision.
Talk To Us!
At Hawthorn Business Group we know what's required to drive your vision consistently and create the business and the culture that you're seeking.
We'd love to talk to you about it.
Hawthorn Business Group
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