Organisational Effectiveness

Barry uses a simple but very powerful model, 'The Circle of Organisational Effectiveness' which provides a holistic framework for any change programme and acts effectively as both a diagnostic and solutions tool.

This model allows consideration of the following questions:

· Does the team or organisation really understand who their stakeholders are, and whether the results currently being delivered are really meeting the needs of those varying stakeholders?

· Is there absolute clarity over why the team or organisation exists (its purpose)? Does it understand where it is trying to get to (its vision) and does it communicate that vision so effectively that every one of its stakeholders understands it?

· Does the team or organisation transform the vision into a strategy that will effectively deliver the vision? Does it ensure that every single person understands their role in delivering the vision by breaking down the strategy into meaningful and measurable goals?

· Are all the various processes in the team or organisation aligned with the needs of stakeholders? Do the right people exist to deliver, are they in the right structure with the right reward, decision making and information systems to support them?

· Does a high performance culture exist within the team or organisation where people are genuinely encouraged to give their best and where their performance and results is recognised?

· How effective is the team or organisation at executing on its highest priorities. What are the barriers to execution and how can they be overcome?


Leadership Effectiveness

Barry's passion is to work with leaders at all levels within organisations to build their effectiveness.

Using a simple but impactful leadership framework, Barry challenges individuals to think about their roles as leaders in performing five critical functions:

· Setting the Direction: great leaders develop absolute clarity of why their teams or organisations exist, where they want to get to and how they are going to get there. They understand completely what their stakeholders need and how they will deliver it. They communicate the direction of travel with passion and clarity.

· Aligning the Organisation: great leaders ensure that the organisational alignment referred to above actually happens. They focus on recruiting the right people, and building the structures, systems and processes that will enable them to deliver

· Engaging their People: great leaders truly unlock the potential of their people. They build high performance cultures which enable people to give their best and build engagement by providing worthwhile work where every person is encouraged to contribute.

· Executing: great leaders understand that execution is everything. Teams and organisations can have the best strategies in the world, but unless they can effectively execute they are worthless. The ability to execute superbly is the breakthrough piece to delivering amazing results.

· Being a Role Model: great leaders not only do all of the above, they are also role models in their behaviours and actions. Through who they are they build trust throughout teams and organisations, trust which enables teams and organisations to perform superbly.


Personal Effectiveness

The third area of effectiveness is personal effectiveness. Unless people are personally effective they cannot achieve great things, no matter how good the organisation. Again using simple models, based on enduring principles, Barry encourages individuals to develop their effectiveness in the following areas:

· Effectiveness within themselves: we build effectiveness within ourselves when we understand the choices that we have, inside and outside our working lives, when we build a truly effective balance between home and work, when we constantly renew ourselves, when we challenge mindsets (ours and others), when we develop clear plans of what we want to achieve and have clarity on our goals and when we manage our time truly effectively.

· Effectiveness with others: we build effectiveness with others when we understand the importance of relationships and optimise them, when we seek solutions to issues which benefit all parties, when we learn to listen effectively and when we realise that by working highly effectively together we can deliver amazing results.