what we solve
making change happen
It seems some things haven't altered since Heraclitus (540-475 BC) said "nothing endures but change".
The bulk of our assignments at Graham Keen Partnership are directly or indirectly concerned with change:
- Facing tough conditions, reorganisation, closure
- Culture change, embracing new values
- Creating change agents
One of the ironies is that there are still individuals who have missed Heraclitus' point. They think of change as episodic, hanker after a steady state, and can inhibit corporate agility. Not bad people, just less comfortable with change than most - the number one barrier to change is humans' uncertainties about it.
Our approach is to handle any of this emotional resistance which might be manifesting in your people by teaching how to boost self-esteem and confidence about change. We don't attempt exhortation, we explain the psychology involved and how reliably to make a difference via conditioning.
We will prove to your people that humans' outcomes in life are far more determined by how they react than by circumstances. Again the simple psychological facts, not unproven philosophy, and easy to learn techniques which exploit them. Like everyone else, your folk will be grateful to learn that looking at things in a new way goes far beyond feeling good and is eg how Viktor Frankl survived Auschwitz.
At the same time we will address their business concerns by assembling reasoned arguments & research evidence. Eg in one professional firm we quoted a 1999 study showing that in consulting majors one leadership approach outperformed others by up to 390% at EBIT level.
We will underpin all this with diagnostics that compare the views of different levels of your leaders and those they lead, and surface them in constructive debate. This is powerful because contrary to some leaders' fears, the similarities always far outweigh the differences: your people know what is needed, we just have to make it possible for them to confess it.
We can then enable people in your organisation to pick up the pace of change by releasing their full Zest for life.
