What is a future ready organization?
Hint... it starts with people!
A future ready organization has developed and embedded eight key competencies in the way it operates. Four of these competencies focus directly on people and four of these competencies focus directly on the operating environment.
Below you’ll find the high-level definition of each of these competencies.
People Focused Competencies
Individual development is woven into work
Practices keep people at the center, tapping into intrinsic motivation to allow people’s best contributions to come forth.
Teaming is psychologically safe
Teaming practices and processes focus on psychological safety, unleashing on-the-job learning at astonishing rates.
Leaders connect people to purpose
Leaders keep “the mission in the middle” and ensure the dots always connect back to the “Why.”
Managers are master mentors & coaches
Managers are people-centric and deeply skilled in the art of mentoring and coaching team members
Environment Focused Competencies
Culture enables strategy
The culture fits the organizational strategy, sending consistently aligned beliefs and norms into the operating environment.
Frictionless ecosystem
The hard and soft structures that facilitate work are smooth and support ease of getting work done.
Perspective taking & sensemaking is prized
Keep the lens open to take in a wide range of viewpoints and possibilities to sense the future
Act with experimentation
Test out new ideas and approaches illuminates the way forward.
These competencies are not individualized competencies (although they can be used that way) they are competencies of the organization itself.
Future ready organizations systemically enable the full potential of its people.