The
Challenge To Be Your Best
Do you feel the
system or current structure of organizations limits success, stifles
employee empowerment, or only welcomes ideas or vision from the
"top" of the firm?
Do your
decisions get over-ridden by your upper management?
Does
your company fail to execute on your vision?
Are
you interested in becoming the next leader in your field?
If you answered yes, AspireNow is focused on helping you
achieve your business aspirations through analysis of these challenges and
providing solutions to meet your needs.
How effective is your company vision?
How productive are your employees? How clear and direct is
communication at your company?
If
you knew there was a structure or plan where you could match your company's deepest values with your
employees' productivity -- and thereby improve your profitability and
quality of experience with your company -- how quickly would you take
action? Would you take action now?Great!
Then read on.Step
1: Understanding Limitations of Current Structures
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Today's organizational standard: The Pyramid
ModelThe Pyramid Model is the standard model used in
most government and business organizations across the world. The challenge
most organizations face is, in fact, systemic. |
Organizational challenges resulting from pyramid
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Most organizations today are built upon a model known as the "pyramid"
model. The funnel goes down and out until you reach the customer. Some
organizations claim to be a reverse-pyramid (customer on top) but they still
fail to be able to (a) empower the employees at the lower rungs of the
pyramid, (b) respond to rapid competitive challenges/new opportunities,
and (c) create sustained success when a powerful leader leaves the
company.
The pyramid is highly useful for creating
"yes" cultures of people who can quickly implement
instructions and directions of senior management. The pyramid, when used to
harness energy, is very powerful. However, the pyramid fails to
enable response or proactive idea generation -- which often happens to come
as threat and challenge of a smaller, nimbler competitor -- and it is hard
to shift to react to the new challenge without either buying (merging)
or trying to simply destroy the competitor through sheer might (bigger
is better, economies of scale, etc.). The smaller, nimbler competitor can often beat the larger
bureaucratic structured company through developing services and products
for specific market niches.
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The Pyramid Model, used alone, leads to
dysfunction, chaos, and inability for leaders to recognize threats and
opportunities.
Organizations using the pyramid model are
implementing "Mt. Sinai Management" -- where only the guy with
the white beard who talks to the burning bush has the "vision"
for the company. As long as the constituents follow the
"commandments" of the "visionary" the company
succeeds. However, when the white bearded CEO leaves, what happens to
the company? That's right. It often fails to succeed at previous levels
because the model is systemically not supportive of the challenge facing
companies and organizations to change, grow, thrive, and provide
empowering environments. This is the problem we aim to solve. |
Step 2:
Empowering Employees To Meet The Challenge
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Our Solution: VQA In Motion |
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VQA in Motion: Empower Your Employees.
Enabling employees through flags, motion, and change.
Putting the pyramid in motion is the first step to changing your
organization to be dynamic, rather than static, and empowering your
employees to embrace your vision for higher productivity. Each employee is
VQA enabled, meaning they can raise a flag to identify new opportunities,
challenges, and "go to the hot hand" to ensure higher percentage
of success with your sales and operations. As a result, each EMPLOYEE IS
EMPOWERED to be HIGHLY PRODUCTIVE. |
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Imagine: empowered
employees, thriving through change, able to execute orders AND proactively
recognize new challenges and opportunities while intellectually,
emotionally, and spiritually thriving through cooperative communication...
it is now possible with V-Q-A... |
Step 3:
Restructuring with The Diamond-Circle ModelTM
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Introducing: The Diamond-Circle ModelTM |
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We're changing companies FROM TOP-DOWN to
INSIDE-OUT
Instead of top-down, with the Diamond-Circle
Model, developed at AspireNow, the power (CEO/Board) is in the center; or,
the power-center.
Sales relationship builders and external contacts with outside world are RED
CONCENTRATOR power circles that
represent your 80% customers Red is key to growing your business, from the
core out. The PURPLE dots represent 20% inner circle customers, business
partners, and the core of where 80% of your business actually
happens. This also represents
the functional aspects of your company, including HR. The inner 20% are
known as your INSULATORS. The model varies
slightly as to who is where, by industry type, but allows for
multi-player, cross-functional teams. |
Imagine: empowered
employees, responding to challenges and showing executives new
opportunities through virtual POW-WOW meetings in your virtual company lodge. What
results is VQA: True Vision, Better Questions, and Timely Action = Optimum
Results. |
Combining the multi-player,
cross-functional teams with the VQA in motion play for each YELLOW diamond
results in higher levels of organizational success.
If you wish to MAXIMIZE YOUR SUCCESS with your 20%
customers, and draw in more 80% customers to your inner circle, now is the
time to change your model from a pyramid to the diamond-circle model.
It is a paradigm shift of thought from top-down
to inside-out; however, the model is PROVEN SUCCESSFUL.
AspireNow
has common sense experts in the Diamond-Circle model (we discovered it)
and can help you implement aspects of the model, or the model in it's
entirety, for your organization's business process improvement programs.
Click
here to learn how to turn your company from top-down to inside out. |
Step
5: Implement Change In A Fun Way
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Why not implement the change in a fun way? |
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AspireNow
Vision
AdventuresVision - Teamwork - Implement
Change - Challenge - Fun - Excitement - Collaboration - Plan For Future |
Motivate,
inspire, get a plan for your future, get
your organizations true collaborative Vision. Implement new programs in
a fun and exciting way, starting Today. |
We
coordinate the event, which combines adventure or fun and getting away
from fluorescent lights, cell phones, and pagers to focus on creating a
vision, utilizing AspireNow's model for business success based upon the
VQA Success Plan and Diamond-Circle Success Model, and therefore coming up
with the right questions, at the right time, so you can experience timely
action and achieve your business aspirations.
The
introductory AspireNow Vision
Adventure lasts one day. The
more extensive VQA Experience lasts between 5 - 7 days. This is usually a
follow-up session with companies who want our objective input into the
process. Just know that AspireNow offers at least 5 different coaching
sessions with at least 5 different experts in the fields of aspiration,
vision, leadership, cooperation, human resource excellence, customer
satisfaction, idea creation, CRM, ERP, and
productivity. It often helps to have an outside firm help usher
change into your environment in a friendly and collaborative event,
followed up with management coaching to keep the energy alive months after
your vision adventure. Or,
simply click here to learn how to turn your company from top-down to
inside out. |
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