If you asked 10 employees at random to describe your organization's strategy and goals, how consistent would they be?

If your employees haven't internalized your strategy, how can they use it to:

• Establish priorities?
• Guide behavior?
• Innovate and create?
• Establish appropriate metrics?

Strategy Creation and Communication

3-D Change, Inc. utilizes a variety of models and techniques to help organizations identify and implement their mission, vision, values, and strategy. Specific techniques include:

• Organizational Fitness Profiling,
• Strategic levers, and
• Scenario planning.

Once the strategy has been defined, it must be efficiently and effectively communicated throughout the organization. Communication tools include:

• Communication matrices, and
• Message mapping

Total Learning Architecture©

The acquisition, utilization, and dissemination of learning and knowledge is critical to create and sustain organizational change. 3-D Change, Inc. has partnered with Global Consulting Alliance to develop a system-wide framework that enables organizations to identify their learning needs and create customized learning processes for every level of employee.

Processes are perfectly designed to produce the results they are currently achieving!

Are your processes:

• Effective?
• Efficient?
• User-friendly?

Lean Six Sigma

The Lean Six Sigma approach is a customer focused, data driven approach to process improvement. While classic Lean Six Sigma approaches are mostly quantitative in nature, 3-D Change, Inc.'s approach emphasizes utilizing data and rigorous analysis in the context of larger, systemic change. Therefore, in addition to user-friendly analytical tools, the following topics are also covered:

• Change management,
• Communication skills,
• Meeting management,
• Project management, and
• Team dynamics.

Problem Solving Diamond©

Copyrighted by 3-D Change, Inc., this robust model has evolved from a variety of problem solving processes, and utilizes a diamond – valuable like the gem, and a path to success like a baseball diamond – to make problem solving easy to understand and do. This tool provides a perfect introduction to problem solving and process improvement for those organizations that are not yet ready to implement Lean Six Sigma.

What's the only asset that can't be easily replicated by your competitors?  Your People!

And in today's turbulent environment, they need support:

• Dealing with change – internally and externally – is a critical challenge.
  
  
• Continuous learning is a critical competency.
  
  
• Changing demographics create new requirements for leaders and managers.

Leader, Manager, and Supervisor Development

3-D Change, Inc. provides a variety of processes to help leaders, managers, and supervisors become more effective in their positions.

Each of these processes utilizes:

• Principles of adult learning to provide conceptually sound learning experiences
  
• Practical tools,
  
• Real work and immediate application, and
  
• Coaching to assure that concepts will be translated into daily work behavior.

Team Building

3-D Change, Inc. helps make existing teams more effective as well as speeding the development of new teams by:

• Assessing the strengths and weaknesses of existing teams (using 360° feedback and other diagnostic tools where appropriate),
  
  
• Coaching team leaders and sponsors,
  
  
• Leading new team kick-offs, and
  
  
• Facilitating team meetings.

"People -and organizations -- DON'T act like "well oiled machines." They are better thought of as gardens -- integrated, complex, constantly changing systems that often defy the laws of "guaranteed," "cause and effect" models of change.

The concepts and tools of Human Systems Dynamics (HSD) provide new ways to make change happen in human systems.

Concepts and tools include:

• Recognition of systemic patterns
• Use of the "C-D-E" framework to influence those patterns

Combining HSD with strategy, processes, and better utilizing people and teams yields:

• Strategic Fitness Planning: SFP focuses on new ways to assess current and future organizational, technological, competitive and marketplace patterns. It then offers ways to influence those in desired ways.

• Implementing process improvement in complex systems: Lean, Six Sigma, and other process improvement initiatives are often implemented using a linear, “cookbook” approach. This body of concepts and tools offers ways to better match implementation to the complex patterns of the people, teams, and organization.