Service Snapshot: Balanced Motivation

Our Balanced Motivation programme – the second of our three Penumbra Balance programmes - encompasses activities that improve performance both for the organisation and the individual during the planning and implementation of strategy.

Challenge

Encouraging people to give of their best at work consistently over time is an enduring challenge, particularly when the going gets tough.

In our hyper-competitive world the biggest challenge for a Leader is to motivate people in the organisation, as they are the most important drivers of business performance.

Most strategies fail to deliver what is promised and the reason is that they fail to inspire or even tell people how to give their best.

What is needed is an approach that can not only deliver a well thought through and rational strategy which people can understand and buy into, but one that also engages the people in the organisation with a shared sense of purpose and gives them a road map to follow.

Time and time again leadership teams fail their people by creating strategies that are dry as dust and wonder why they do not get the commitment they need. Our Balanced Motivation programme will inspire people to deliver the desired results.

Solution

Experience has taught us that disillusionment tends to be caused by three factors:

• Management systems rather than poor managers

• Poor alignment between organisational aims and line managers

• Putting too much emphasis on a single aspect of motivational plans to the exclusion of others

It is well known that a well motivated workforce improves corporate performance.
Achieving a high level of motivation requires an organisation to recognise that it is not a one hit solution, rather it involves a complex mix of activities designed to satisfy peoples’ fundamental needs on several levels over time.
Our Balanced Motivation programme is based on an innovative and variable mix of elements delivered within the appropriate culture and leadership style for any individual organisation. It encompasses activities that improve performance both organisationally and individually.
At the organisation level:

• Diagnose and refine culture
  Our culture programme enables you to measure and map where your organisation stands today and where you want to be. It also enables you to match action to specific measures of culture.

• Facilitate change
  Acknowledge and accommodate behavioural and emotional factors in any large-scale change initiative and allow the change idea to be refined before launching.

At the individual level:

• Engagement and motivation
  Our surveys map where people lie in terms of the various zones of engagement and identify the retention factors for the different segments.

• Performance improvement
  Our Eclipse diagnostic tool identifies the behaviours to foster that that accelerate momentum and performance and those that sustain momentum and performance.

• Transition coaching
  Effective coaching results in people being able to produce more successful and effective performance repeatedly over a longer period of time.

Developing winning strategies that are going to shift the organisation to where it wants to be requires an innovative approach which can work for all people, in terms of both a rational buy-in and an emotional engagement of people, which results from using our Penumbra Balanceapproach.

Benefits

Our programme will help leadership teams:

• Apply an “Ask Them” rather than a “Tell Them” approach to strategy development and implementation

• Motivate people around the strategic direction and inspire them to make it succeed

• Enable people to feel proud and fulfilled with the work they are doing

• Make the most of all the talent in the organisation

• Enable people to make a meaningful contribution

• Deliver a programme which will drive better performance through the life of the strategy.