Developing the leadership capability required to lead change

Given Corven’s view of organisations as complex adaptive systems, we believe the answer to most challenges faced by our clients lies within the system; within individuals and/or teams in that system, and that solutions are emergent. Our experience shows that to obtain sustainable change it is therefore critical to work at three levels – individual, team and organisation.

Our approach is holistic and integrated to help organisations deliver sustainable change across all levels. Our diagnostic techniques identify the proven tools and practices that will help deliver desired strategic and/or tactical results most effectively. We focus on both the rational and emotional aspects of implementing and leading change.

To compliment this approach, Corven also work with Boston-based Cambridge Leadership Associates (CLA). This partnership enables us to offer the benefits of CLA’s innovative Adaptive Leadership™ methodology to clients who want to develop greater capacity for change.

Benefits of our approach

We work with clients to help create organisations that can thrive in even the most volatile global environments. We ensure that:

• Leaders, individuals and teams develop crucial adaptive skills and aspire to accelerate their ability to change and grow
• New organizational structures and systems can flex to fit the wider business context
• The human dimension of change and organisational effectiveness is harnessed and managed to create strategically aligned, effective and execution-focused leaders, individuals, teams and organisations
• The development of skills and capabilities is supported to help people flourish in their environment, and so enable the organisation to succeed in a sustainable way, without the need for extensive long term external intervention
• Where Adaptive Leadership™ methodology is utilised, the critical business issues are kept central to the work, creating a practical learning process that delivers meaningful and relevant results

Familiar client dilemmas we address

• “How does my organisation move from a command-and-control culture to a more proactive, collaborative based working environment?”
• “How can our leadership team develop a clearer, shared understanding of their broad business strategy?”
• “How can we quickly form and create a new and effective project team?”
• “How do we create the processes that allow teams to test and execute new business ideas?”
• “How do I increase congruence between personal and corporate goals?”