Enhancing Flexibility, Innovation and Effectiveness

Through Daston's Organizational Development projects, we find effective ways for our clients to invoke change successfully. By focusing on the social systems that derail necessary change and by leveraging planned change processes, Daston can assist organizations to make game changing strides.

To create an organizational culture where continuous improvement is prevalent and naturally occurring requires action on multiple fronts simultaneously. However the benefits are significant with increases in:

• Profits or cost effectiveness.
• Innovation and organizational flexibility.
• Product and service quality, customer satisfaction.
• Personal feelings of effectiveness job, work, and life satisfaction.
• Staff engagement and loyalty

Daston's Approach

Daston roots out the obstacles that prevent common people from accomplishing uncommon results. This involves examining prevailing culture, work processes, communication patterns and reward systems for suboptimal attributes in an effort to create an organization where:

• Customer needs are always known and thought about by employees and leaders.
• People and groups have the same goals and people can learn from experience.
• People are rewarded for success but not punished for failure of innovation or creativity; so innovation is high.
• Communication is open, laterally and vertically, all relevant facts and feelings are shared.
• Decisions are made by people with the most relevant, direct knowledge.
• The reward system reinforces organizational health.
• Conflict is treated and resolved constructively not suppressed or allowed to interfere with productivity.
• Processes and structures are based on present needs rather than, so they are efficient and help people.

Daston believes that a successful OD implementation allows people to influence the systems which influence them. By giving employees more control over how they do their jobs we can give leaders more control over results. Some of the highest-performing organizations in the world are also the best to work for. They actively help their people to contribute to the health and productivity of the organization.

Contact us about your vision of the ideal world and we will help develop the organization that can deliver your vision.