SKOPOS Consulting defines OD as: a collaborative organization-wide effort among all stakeholders (employees, management and consultants) to develop a mission aligned, high performance learning organization capable of self-renewal in the rapidly changing world through holistic change management programs addressing organization culture, leadership and team capacities.
Organization development has to serve business needs
A railway has two identical and parallel rails so that the train can move smoothly and safely. The same analogy applies to organizations. The two rails are the business side (Hard Side) and the organization/cultural side (Soft Side). Expanding the business side without a proper organizational side would lead to non sustainable growth. While expanding on the organizational side in isolation from the business side would lead to inefficiency. SKOPOS Consulting bases its organization development efforts actual business needs and future business objectives of its client organizations.
Collaborating with rather than advising the client
Based on our experience, we firmly believe that providing well structured advice in a report format only, does not necessarily lead to effective implementation and achievement of result. We believe that our clients have a deep understanding of their own context and are capable of driving solutions to their challenges. We collaboratively support and facilitate a deeper understanding of the root causes of these challenges by leveraging on the client's own experiences, observations and recommendations.
Empowering Employees at all levels (Unleashing human potential)
All humans have great potential waiting to be unleashed. We believe that empowerment, space and continuous development are the right tools for unleashing potential, energy and growth. Our consultants work collaboratively with management and leadership teams to transfer knowledge of how to effectively utilize those tools within their teams and the rest of the organization.
Building on Best-Practices to reach Best-fit
Each client is different, thus every solution accordingly has to be customized to suit the organization's specific conditions, both internally and externally. SKOPOS Consulting does not believe that best practices applied worldwide are necessarily applicable in regional organizations. In most cases, these off-the-shelf solutions may in fact ignore unique local cultures and lead to adverse impact. In fact, we study, customize and build on them to reach Best-fit solutions that address our individual clients’ needs
Organizational development has to serve business needs
Each client is different, thus every solution accordingly has to be customized to suit the organization's specific conditions, both internally and externally. SKOPOS Consulting does not believe that best practices applied worldwide are necessarily applicable in regional organizations. In most of the cases, these off-the-shelf solutions may in fact ignore unique local cultures and lead to adverse impact. In fact, we study, customize and build on them to reach Best-fit solutions that address our individual clients’ needs
Long-term partnership with our clients
We believe, we are our client’s business partners in their journey of transformation and moving from good to great. To do that, we engage and observe client dynamics, work closely with different teams within the organization and dynamically plan and deliver our value based on the various phases of transformation. We commit ourselves to maintaining long-term strong relationships with our clients.
Change is owned by the leader of the organization
Organizational change is owned by the leader of the organization who can facilitate efforts quickly and smoothly. From the onset of our work, SKOPOS Consulting works closely with the leadership of the organization to ensure alignment and commitment with the impending change initiatives.
Organization needs are emerging
SKOPOS Consulting unique collaborative consulting mode enables its consultants to cope with the different and emerging business and developmental needs of the organization. Change is the only constant in business and hence SKOPOS Consulting, your business and your organizational partner, will collaboratively work with these dynamics.