Executive Assessment
& Coaching
As a firm, the Mink Group
has 27 years of experience in 360-degree assessment of executives
and other persons in leadership and management positions.
One of several of our executive coaching clients heads national
and multi-national corporations. To sample our approach to
helping others improve themselves in their careers, read the
executives’ sampler that follows:
Organizational Development
This is a field of endeavor
that literally takes the best principles from applied behavioral
science and translates them into a variety of approaches,
some systematically and other not, to improve business performance.
The focus is optimizing the people for an organizational match.
Most of the problems faced by today’s businesses can
be resolved and appropriate to good problem resolution is
problem definition and the direct application of intervention
theory in the form of appropriate practice.
Organizational Transformation
& Change
Optimizing relationships between
people and organizational outcomes with a concern for organization
efficiency and effectiveness is at the heart of the reason
for implementing organizational development, organizational
transformation and change efforts.
Organizational transformation
is the process of helping an organization and the people who
compose it evolve to higher levels of learning and performance
and to master the abilities to continue to transform themselves
as needed. Done well it releases the potential for constructive
ongoing self – organizing qualities of people.
Whole Systems Design
In any organization any one
event that occurs can have impact on the total organization
and vice versa. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts
and to try to help an organization transform itself to new
levels of performance, it is important to understand that
even though the parts and the whole influence each other,
the whole is clearly different than any one part. Therefore,
it becomes important for people leading organizations to be
able to recognize the dynamic patterns in the living system
we call organizations. This must include, but is not limited
to a thorough understanding of context and how context is
influencing the meaning that different events have for different
players. For example, the word context comes from a Greek
root meaning 'to weave,' it is the process of weaving language
and history to create meaning. Understanding context is a
challenge for leaders in today's economy.
Meaning - What does meaning
look like in today's economy? How do we find that needle in
a pile of needles? How do we describe an idea, a product,
a service in an environment where shared meaning, staff loyalty
and brand loyalty are rapidly becoming an illusion? Meaning
as we define it is to think and remember.
Relationships – this
is where the edge is, the opportunities in the new economy.
Effective leaders in a dynamic, fluid environment need information;
they need to be able to build a context around that information;
this provides meaning, the raw stuff of communication. These
three things – information, context and meaning –
are the tools used to create and nurture a high level of relational
capacity in organizations. By that, I mean relationships that
are useful to all stakeholders in the world of the triple
bottom line.
Diagnostic Study &
Design
The diagnostic review provides
the leadership team valid information for an in-depth critical
analysis of context, relationships (networks), individual
unit and collective purpose-meaning.
The subject of the diagnostic
review includes clarification of the organization’s
vision, mission, and goals. Working with the organization,
we set up an ongoing process that will help the organization’s
leaders answer at any time these basic questions:
- Where are we now? (current
situation)
- Where do we want to go?
(goals and objectives)
- How do we expect to get
there? (strategies, tactics, and policies)
- What organization structures
are needed? (matrix, task force, or single leader)
- Who is going to pay? (source
of funds)
- How will we know when we
have arrived? (evaluation plan)
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