TrueColoursV3 | for-your-organization

Does this happen in your organization, too?

You have questions about vision, mission and strategy: how to (re)define them? How to make sharp choices? How to discover what can connect the different parties in a merger or acquisition? How to handle strategy and translate that into ‘big, bold moves’?

You want to define and implement a new vision on leadership. How to disconnect leadership from positions, to modernize it and make it more effective and shared?

A new culture in your organization, that's what you're aiming for. What will become your ‘new normal’, your DNA (Daily Natural Attitude)? More customer-orientation, self-management, sense of responsibility, an open feedback culture, ...?

You’re launching a new organization model with less hierarchy and more autonomy. What are the consequences for your structure? And for your roles and responsibilities?

You’re wondering which governance model you need to run your organization. What composition, authority and interactions do you envisage for the board of directors and other managerial committees?

Does one or more of these challenges sound familiar? You’re not alone: we hear them often. Let’s tackle them together.

Our offer

You have made clear choices about where you want to go. In other words, guiding principles, translated into, for example, strategy, leadership and culture.

There is more ownership, responsibility and support through a combination of strong leadership on the one hand and far-reaching participation on the other hand.

You will not receive long texts with analyses of the past – but rather a limited set of future scenarios and, in particular, tangible ideas for implementing them. We regard this as logical, since we start implementation as from Day 1.

The workability of new principles has already been tested with experiments. Even if the new organization is not yet there, you are already acting ‘as if’. This saves you a great deal of time.

Failing forward, consent decision-making, teal, your employees and managers achieve a higher level of performance and become more critical, more self-willed and more ambitious.

Broaden your perspective | We provide new insights and challenge you continuously. And just when you think ‘Where is this going?’, we find the common thread together. We conclude with the ‘So what?’ test: what is different, what is new, why should this work?

Choose what works for you | Forget the sacred cows or traditional models. We start from a blank sheet and first make your question crystal clear. During the project, we constantly monitor the fit with your organization. Do we share our own opinion as well? You can count on it!

Launch specific actions | We don’t do lengthy as-is-analysis or off-hand insights and models. During the process, we already get you started and start immediate implementation through different experiments. The key? The action plan after each step.

Get everyone onboard | The client, the internal project leader, the internal change team, and the necessary sounding board groups: together we carefully develop a project architecture in which we involve all relevant stakeholders.

The bonus? You can come to us both during and after the process. ‘You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave ...’

How do we achieve these results?

Change team in the driver’s seat

Do you want to implement a change that involves your entire organization and do you therefore require knowledge & experience from all over your organization? Then, we put together an internal project team with representatives from all parties concerned. And yes, dissident voices are also welcome.

We define challenging guiding principles instead of strict rules and procedures. Together we develop real proposals and we launch experiments to make your change a success. The goal? Taking steps forward and getting everyone on board.

Strategy workshop

Defining your vision/mission? Making important strategic choices for the near future? A strategy workshop – with your executive team – will put you on the right track:

You map out the strategic context and challenges.
Spice it up: what is your ‘why’, intention, purpose?
What direction are you heading for? Make your strategic bets.
You translate these into wildly important goals.
You achieve these goals together and know how you will follow up the implementation.

Organization design

Upgrading your organization? Finding solutions to tailor it even more closely to the challenges you’re facing? Incorporating agility from the start, so that you are always ready for new challenges? This workshop will accomplish this ambition:

We start from your vision and mission and from other choices that have already been made.
We focus on your challenges and translate them into clear organizational principles.
We develop these principles into a limited number of scenarios or organizational proposals.
We test the scenarios and proposals in experiments and ‘minimal viable processes’.
We translate the chosen designs into roles, functions and teams.

The result? A transition plan that is widely supported, because we involved all parties at every step.

Participation workshop

Ideal for involving many – or very diverse – stakeholders in a decision:

Employees, customers, users, administrators, etc.: they all provide input and evaluate proposals. They work on questions such as ‘What are our challenges?’, ‘What do we want instead?’, ‘What is already working?’ and ‘What small steps can we already take now?’

During the process, we work with small groups, plenary feedback, market moments, brainstorms, work sessions, online polls and discussions. With ‘We bet…’, ‘What if…’ and other creative working methods, the participants arrive at real proposals.

Inspiration workshop

With these workshops, you are inspired from the start of a change process by innovative and relevant insights and examples from outside. The goal? To challenge your current ways of thinking and broaden your perspective. We invite interesting speakers and bring inspiration ourselves.

Survey

Do you want to involve a large group of stakeholders in a decision, but is it physically impossible to bring them all together? Then choose a survey to collect input efficiently, process it and use it in one or more other working methods.

We have numerous tailor-made surveys. An example? Our quick scan, which measures the agility of your organization.

Guerilla Goodness

Do you want to change your practices and habits in your organization? Originating from the employees’ initiative – perhaps even without a mandate from above? Then you can certainly use some Guerilla Goodness. This innovative change technique allows change to emerge bottom-up.

Squads are formed around the topics and get ‘carte blanche’ to conduct positive, surprising and pattern-breaking experiments for a period of time. Then, the evaluation: which experiments do you integrate into your daily activities, which ones do you drop?

Guerilla goodness works perfectly for provoking positively, causing disruption and getting things moving. Count on us for inspiration – for example, by means of a boot camp about essential Guerilla skills.

True Colours contributed to turning us into a ‘factory of the future’ today thanks to their strategic thinking exercises, organizational design, leadership trainings and team workshops.

What is it that makes True Colours unique? They co-create in every process, workshop or training, so that it always fits into our DNA. The expertise they bring in is exactly what we need, no more and no less. And their no-nonsense, pragmatic approach is greatly appreciated. That’s why we have been working together for 10 years now.

Peter Schollaert, Senior Advisor Organizational Development, TE Connectivity

For your organization

Of course, when resolving your organization’s big challenges, you don’t want to skate over thin ice. We help you outline your ambitions, expand your insights, and define real actions.