If our bodies and minds get healthier by working out regularly, so do companies. Since personal health is important, shouldn’t company health be important, too? A good company workout looks a lot like a personal workout –
- Trainer – benchmark your company health
- Coach – develop a custom workout routine to add strength and stamina
- Gym membership – find a place to take your company for regular workouts
- Partner – just like workout partners help us live up to our commitments, share your company workout commitment with every employee so they help the company stick with it
- Schedule – commit to a regular schedule for your workouts; “no pain, no gain” applies to your company too – building health isn’t a once-a-year offsite, it’s an every day activity
- Measure – track progress regularly – compare results against your goals
Our projects build company health featuring 6 key ingredients of a company workout –
- Benchmark company health – We collect input from every employee to identify what drives employee behavior today and perceptions about it. The outcome identifies clearly where to focus to build a healthy organization. One that has a clear vision, engages everyone to achieve it, supports efforts to change and try new things, and learns how to build speed.
- Custom workout plan – The gaps between today’s culture and your vision lead to the custom roadmap – where to focus your strength and stamina building efforts to make sure the vision is realized. Just like the right personal workout plan achieves your fitness goals, the right company workout plan means you won’t get to the end of the year and wonder why goals were missed.
- Workout facility – It’s important your employees have a place to go where they can try new things regularly. Like gyms that promote “no judgement zones,” we make sure your company “try new space” is a safe zone where people can build muscle memory around new skills. We coach people to crawl-walk-run with new concepts, so your employees become comfortable with change, with new ways of working, with new technologies, before they’re expected to apply them when the pressure is on.
- Teamwork – We share your company vision with every employee, because like workout partners, your employees will keep you honest. We build teams who share a passion to change a particular aspect of how things are done at your company. We coach teams to think through how a specific change will impact employees, departments, processes, schedules and so forth. The result is a robust plan with checks-and-balances so that full implementation is on time and flawless.
- Schedule – Like the best workout plans have a schedule that increases repetitions, weight, or distance, we build and hold everyone to a schedule to make sure our progress stays on track. Building company health takes more than a once-a-year offsite, it’s an everyday activity. We sound the alarm to make sure your employees schedule time to work ON THE BUSINESS just like regularly working in it.
- Metrics – We track and report the key performance metrics of organizational health. Different than KPIs for running the business, our KPIs provide leading indicators of your organization’s agility, learning, trust, engagement, customer focus and more. We use the results to laser-focus on building sustainable health, far beyond anything a quick-fix diet can achieve.
Healthy organizations deliver results, where people want to work and customers want to do business, the true competitive advantage in today’s fast-paced economy. Learn more about MAD Teams projects –
