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Organizations cannot change if people do not change. Many consultants address the typical, “visible” components of change (i.e., strategy, hierarchy, job descriptions). ATG knows that change must occur not only in organization charts, but to the level of each and every individual. ATG’s experienced consultants insure that individual development is organization development, and vice-versa. We help organizations build their desired identity and value to stakeholders with optimized design and development.
ATG, we take a broad view of diversity to include differences spanning peoples, places and time. No amount of analysis can effectively boil an organization’s value proposition down into one ‘average’ understanding of the customer. Similarly, any organization with more than one employee must recognize the richness and value of diversity in interests, motives, values and beliefs of its people. At ATG, we understand global diversity and culture better than our competitors in two ways:
Local Partners: We have a truly global network of ‘friends and partners’ all over the world. For us, it’s not about being bigger; it’s about being better. Better fit, better service, better connections. We don’t ‘own’ everyone we work with – we simply share the same attitudes and beliefs that's what makes ATG better than the rest.
Understanding Differences: We’ve spent our entire careers assessing people and organizations. No two are the same, and yet, there are various principles and characteristics that are similar. We are true experts in understanding the similarities and differences that make us ‘one and unique’.
Global Diversity & Culture Products & Services
Locally Validated Assessments: We don’t assume that what works in London will work in Tokyo – even if the language is perfectly translated (or not even used). We go the extra mile beyond simply translating tools by actually validating their value and use in different cultures
Employee Surveys: Employee surveys should reflect the unique interests and values of an organization as well as some standard content pertaining to basic employment. ATG’s survey system insures that you address the questions that differentiate your organization from your competitor, as well as the questions that address the basics. The key is to have a reliable, valid and actionable measure – we do that
Diversity Management: Research shows that people simplify the way they understand others. Sometimes these assumptions are effective and expedite decision-making. Many times, however, these shortcuts lead to errors or biases. ATG’s psychologists help individuals and organizations improve their understanding of individual and cultural differences so that they can be maximally influential with diverse people
The structure of an organization is critical to getting desired results. How an organization is structured is far more complicated in today’s global and tight economy. Every position must have the responsibility and authority to deliver maximum value with minimal waste. At ATG we apply our deep understanding of business, marketplace, social systems and individual psychology to evolve the optimal design for unique organization needs.
Organization Structure Products and Services:
Business Performance Modeling: Before making any changes to an organization design, ATG makes comprehensive and quantitative assessment of how value is created. Our proprietary means of modeling an organization’s performance and what makes it go helps identify the critical leverage points and principles for an organization structure.
Stakeholder Assessments: Value is as value is perceived. We take a ‘customer-centric’ approach toward understanding exactly who expects what value in a business system. Stakeholders include internal and external interests from board chair to consumers
Talent is an organization’s most valuable resource –even more valuable than cash. Despite this reality, most organizations make poor decisions regarding how they invest in their talent. Consider this: how much does your organization spend to insure the effective and efficient use of cash versus the effective and efficient use of talent?
Organization Audits Products and Services:
Talent Process Audits: Most of our clients are or have been using some kind of process to get, grow and manage their talent. In these cases we often begin with a careful assessment of what currently exists: what works, what doesn’t, what is missing? Our comprehensive talent process audits insure you know exactly what is being done and how effective it is
Talent Management Audits: These reviews insure that your organization has the right talent ‘balance sheet’. Simply put: What is the quality and quantity of talent driving our organization? The final question we answer is “Are we OK, or not OK?”
“Better, faster, cheaper” - the simple but elusive goal of any process. Challenging as it is, how work gets done makes a critical difference to your ability to compete. Although many consultants purport to improve your processes, at ATG we understand that even ‘automatic’ processes are operated by people. People and systems must come together in effective work design.
Business Process Design Products & Services
Talent & Process Blueprinting: Our way of mapping, designing and implementing processes to include stakeholders along the way. We provide a map of the inputs, processes and outputs of people in organization processes & systems
Key Performance Indicators & Scorecards: Science drives everything we do at ATG, and science depends on data. For every system or process we work with, we insure that reliable, objective measures exist that tell the truth about performance and value. These measures are one of our primary distinguishers as we create and assess your talent and processes with measurable data |
