President & Co-Founder
CurrentSatisfying customers, generating financial returns and creating a great place to work are goals most organizations share. Independently, concepts such as Leadership Development, Balanced Scorecard and Lean Improvement can help organizations build the capabilities they need to achieve these goals. However, pursuing such “initiatives” in isolation leads to sub-optimized results. Over the last decade, the Integris team has studied how organizations execute change. Our findings show that the most successful efforts come when organizations consider and apply these “change concepts” in an interconnected and coordinated way.LEADERSHIP PRACTICESHow leaders act is a primary driver of organizational health, as leaders influence everything that happens. It takes leaders to create shared vision, challenge the status quo, and to ensure that employees have the capabilities and support they need to succeed. Research shows that employees cite their relationship with leaders as one of the most important contributors to their own level of effectiveness and engagement at work. At Integris, we believe that healthy leadership practices are a prerequisite for establishing a healthy organization.TEAM BEHAVIORSHow team members interact is an important component of organizational health. Teams that are open and vulnerable with each other are better at debating ideas, committing to decisions and holding each other accountable for results. Establishing greater workforce cohesion serves to eliminate many of the barriers common to achieving organizational health, such as gossip, politics and infighting. OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCEHaving each and every employee focused on delivering maximum value to the customer is a hallmark of organizational health. By embracing Lean concepts, organizations strengthen their ability to establish shared goals, set meaningful performance targets, measure results and uncover valuable improvement opportunities.IntegrisPA.com
