MOST Analysis

Mission Statement

Management Paradigm is aimed at helping companies in healthcare, financial services, technology, manufacturing and R&D successfully transform their managerial processes and practices to provide for greater organization agility and employee engagement. These industries have experienced the impact of intense pressure for profitability and innovation. Roles have been eliminated and some replaced by technological advancements. Many department heads feel as if they are running as fast as they can yet not making headway. Management Paradigm provides multiple lenses through which existing business unit and department heads view effective, accountable managerial leadership and their role in it. It introduces a new paradigm about work systems and effective management built upon the scientifically based Requisite Organization (RO) framework. RO is proven to create more trust-based systems, providing clarity about what workers are accountable for and to whom they must account.

At the conclusion of Management Paradigm, you will have experienced, first-hand the adage “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts”. The combination of understanding how large- scale work systems perform using a consistent set of managerial processes across the board, results in significant yet sustainable improvements. Management Paradigm also views individual senior managers as whole systems and provides them with processes and practices to increase their EQ and manage their own self-care. This combination puts you the individual accountable managerial leader at the hub of the wheel. The adage “there is strength in numbers” holds true. Those of you taking this journey will create dialogue amongst yourselves creating a cohort within the company that will demonstrate significant outcomes in engagement, creativity, innovation, retention, customer service, quality and profitability. Not only are you adding value to the company, but you are strengthening your managerial acumen. These processes and practices are transportable. Once experienced you cannot go back to the old ways.

Month 1 consists of a preliminary assessment of your organization’s strengths and weaknesses. You will be asked to conduct a preliminary analysis of your organization identifying what is working and not working. Essentially to get a clear picture of what is and what could be. We will identify key roles and what and if they are adding value. Each of you are accountable for the overall performance of your department. Management Paradigm provides not only the tools but the processes you will use to transform your organization’s overall effectiveness.

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Objectives

01. Company Positioning: Preliminary company-wide assessment; self-assessment, outlining personal goals for the program. Time Allocated: 1 Month
02. Company Uncertainties: What keeps you up at night. Setting targets for improvement. Time Allocated: 1 Month
03. Business Unit Assessment: Analyze your business unit identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Time Allocated: 1 Month
04. Defining Issues: Using the two preliminary assessments you’ve done identify the defining issues you see and must address. Time Allocated: 1 Month
05. Session Infrastructure: Analyze and assess the interplay of organization structure and you. Time Allocated: 1 Month
06. Managerial Leadership: Analyze and assess the managerial roles in your organization. Identify authorities and accountabilities each have. Time Allocated: 1 Month
07. Organization Structure: Compare and contrast the organization structure of your organization with the information provided. What works? Where are their fractures? Time Allocated: 1 Month
08. Personal Awareness: What do you know about yourself? How are you received, experienced at work? Time Allocated: 1 Month
09. Awareness Knowledge: Introduction and take DiSC Behavioral Workplace Style Profile Time Allocated: 1 Month
10. Organization Development: Introduce, plan and preliminary implementation of an OD process for your organization. Time Allocated: 1 Month
11. Self-Care: Assess and analyze how you take care of yourself and encourage others to take care of themselves. What habits need to be broken and new ones created. Time Allocated: 1 Month
12. Demonstrating Interconnectedness: Synthesizing what has been learned and demonstrating the interconnectedness. Time Allocated: 1Month

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Strategies

01. Company Positioning: Each individual department head to undertake departmental SWOT analysis; strategy research & development.
02. Company Uncertainties: Each individual department head to undertake departmental SWOT analysis; strategy research & development.
03. Business Unit Assessment: Each individual department head to undertake departmental SWOT analysis; strategy research & development.
04. Defining Issues: Each individual department head to undertake departmental SWOT analysis; strategy research & development.
05. Session Infrastructure: Each individual department head to undertake departmental SWOT analysis; strategy research & development.
06. Managerial Leadership: Each individual department head to undertake departmental SWOT analysis; strategy research & development.
07. Organization Structure: Each individual department head to undertake departmental SWOT analysis; strategy research & development.
08. Personal Awareness: Each individual department head to undertake departmental SWOT analysis; strategy research & development.
09. Awareness Knowledge: Each individual department head to undertake departmental SWOT analysis; strategy research & development.
10. Organization Development: Each individual department head to undertake departmental SWOT analysis; strategy research & development.
11. Self-Care: Each individual department head to undertake departmental SWOT analysis; strategy research & development.
12. Demonstrating Interconnectedness: Each individual department head to undertake departmental SWOT analysis; strategy research & development.

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Tasks

01. Create a task on your calendar, to be completed within the next month, to analyze Company Positioning.
02. Create a task on your calendar, to be completed within the next month, to analyze Company Uncertainties.
03. Create a task on your calendar, to be completed within the next month, to analyze Business Unit Assessment.
04. Create a task on your calendar, to be completed within the next month, to analyze Defining Issues.
05. Create a task on your calendar, to be completed within the next month, to analyze Session Infrastructure.
06. Create a task on your calendar, to be completed within the next month, to analyze Managerial Leadership.
07. Create a task on your calendar, to be completed within the next month, to analyze Organization Structure.
08. Create a task on your calendar, to be completed within the next month, to analyze Personal Awareness.
09. Create a task on your calendar, to be completed within the next month, to analyze Awareness Knowledge.
10. Create a task on your calendar, to be completed within the next month, to analyze Organization Development.
11. Create a task on your calendar, to be completed within the next month, to analyze Self-Care.
12. Create a task on your calendar, to be completed within the next month, to analyze Demonstrating Interconnectedness.

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Introduction

Albert Einstein once said, “the mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size”. Think of Management Paradigm as an adventure in transforming how you think, see, feel and even smell the world of work and in particular your company. It’s a quest for you to be your best and to assist your company and, in particular, the unit you manage to excel in new and different ways.

The Management Paradigm Program is a multiyear program intended to provide an in-depth experience of science-based managerial principles and processes and individual worker awareness of their accountability, emotional intelligence and how to take care of themselves in turbulent corporate environments. This first session will provide a macro view of what participants will be learning and experiencing in the upcoming sessions of the program.

Companies and other work systems are being impacted by disruption, technology, local economies and geo-political phenomena. These four factors provide the contextual framework through which corporations must function. It is the intention of this first session to help attendees understand they are dealing with outside forces that are impinging on the business.

Industry disruption is nothing new. We’ve seen Uber, Lyft and Via disrupt the taxi and black car industry in many large cities. Outer borough car services once the only source of non-personal private transportation options have also been severely affected. AirBNB has totally disrupted the hotel and motel industry allowing people to travel more cheaply while at the same time providing options for people with a spare bedroom to become hosts and recoup some of the income lost in the recession. Add VRBO to the mix and you can see the impact on the resort rental markets. Realtors have lost a significant market segment as companies like Zillow, Compass and Triplemint are using data to transform how we buy and sell homes and property. Carvanna, Vroom and others are disrupting how we buy cars and sell them too.

Technology is developing by leaps and bounds. Scientists are now able to identify where in the Human genome the genetic code, there is an oddity. They can correct the oddity replacing the wrong gene with the correct one. Studies underway at the National Institute of Health in Washington DC believe they may have found the answer to eradicating Sickle Cell Anaemia an excruciatingly painful and debilitating disease. The hope is this process can result in curing hundreds of illnesses. Laboratories around the world are frantically working to find a vaccine for the coronavirus. The pandemic has intensified the need for speed in laboratories and its hopeful vaccines will be available as well as treatments in the next 12-18 months. This all because of technological advancements. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is growing robustly. When we call the number on the back of a credit card or have an online chat more often than not, we are connected to a bot not an actual person. These advancements will impact millions of people around the world. The need for low skilled labor will be diminished. New compensation systems will need to be created. More importantly, the mindset countries have to take care of their people, will need modification as corporate wealth generation may require many fewer workers. How will countries both industrialized, and developing, feed, clothe and educate their own? Roughly 30 million people in the US are unemployed in October 2020. That is about 20% of the workforce. People staying home and cooking has reduced demand for food products. Dry Cleaners mostly small mom and pop businesses are closing their doors, no one is dry cleaning their clothes in the midst of a pandemic. Demands for work attire have crashed while demands for pyjamas have risen dramatically.

Management Paradigm provides the processes by which corporations can thoroughly review how they are organized to conduct business. Today’s companies must be agile and have engaged workforces. Yet worldwide surveys indicate most workers acknowledge being disengaged. Five generations are working side by side today with young managers overseeing the work of employees old enough to be their parents or grandparents.

Baby Boomers, many of whom lost significant savings in the 2008 recession are working longer. The millennial generation came of age in prosperous times. Consequently, their prosperous parents having grown up in challenging times themselves showered their children with toys and praise, a “you can do anything mindset�