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 Make your Company More Effective . . . powered by 21st Century Advantage™ and Simplex®
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“The Ford Cleveland Manufacturing Site has had a partnership with Pat Banks and Banks International since the late 1980's. The products and services have ranged from improving supervisions Interpersonal Skills, Conflict Management, Cultural Change, Quality improvement tools and other business metrics improvement techniques needed to compete in the Global Automotive industry. The training materials, format, curriculum and delivery are exceptional! We look forward to continuing this partnership.”
Wayne Calanni., OD Leader, Ford Motor Company |
- If your organization isn’t delivering expected results…
- If you feel your organization could and should be doing better…
- If competitors seem to be doing better than you…
- If you’re not satisfactorily solving major, important, strategic issues…
You’ll want to explore and address all the elements of your culture. We can help you improve your culture and help your organization become more flexible, adaptable, and efficient.
It’s difficult to talk about improving organizational effectiveness without also talking about the organization’s culture. Yet, that’s exactly what many organizations do – pay little or no attention to its culture. They focus intensely on improving the necessary mechanisms, tools, systems, and processes for people to do their jobs and overlook the most critical single determinant of an organizations’ failure, mediocrity, or success - the culture. If you want to make your organization more effective, you have to improve the social, functional, and socio-functional cultures within it.
Banks International specializes in:
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Helping organizations improve efficiency and flexibility, as well as develop adaptability, using
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Assess cultures to identify drivers and influences responsible for current results.
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Submit tested and proven recommendations to change counterproductive influences
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Guide clients to develop flexibility and integrate adaptability into their business’ strategy.
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Train our customers on how to creatively solve strategic problems with the Simplex® process |
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Help customers create Performance-Enhancing Cultures to improve organizational results |
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Facilitate strategic planning sessions that build commitment and motivation |
“Making organizations more effective has been the “Holy Grail” of its leaders ever since the dawn of managerial structures.”
Edgar H. Schein, Professor Emeritus, Sloan School of Management, MIT |
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Culture Change . . . powered by 21st Century Advantage™
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"Banks International…models and methods enable the development of an environment based on dialogue, trust, and collaborative coexistence. These elements, seldom recognized or measured in organizations, are the ones that create the basic relationships on which the optimum performance of a sound and intelligent organization is based. Thanks, Pat”
Roberto Montiel, Human Resources, Volkswagen of Mexico |
If in your organization…
- many people dislike their work environment, co-workers, and/or the organization…
- the rituals of day-to-day life are either disorganized or downright contradictory...
- much time, attention, energy, and effort is devoted to meeting short-term targets, while long range goals receive little thought or support…
…then, we can help you change your culture to be more efficient and profitable. Your current culture could be costing you a bundle and you may not even know how much!
Organizations - regardless of their size, what they do, or how they are defined by their markets, products, or customers - are really nothing more than social and interaction systems. They are all about people - their feelings, expectations, perceptions, values, motives, and most important, how they achieve objectives. How people work together is the functional culture. How people interact, communicate, help, and support each other is the social culture.
Banks International’s 21st Century Advantage™ service is a four phase process designed to help an organization change its culture and enhance the performance of the business. Typically, the 4 phases are:
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Phase III Design of Intervention |
| Phase II Culture Audit |
Phase IV Implementation |
Click here for specific information on the 21st Century Advantage™ process.
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Organizational Development . . . powered by 21st Century Advantage™ and Simplex®
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“Pat, the SMP [Skills Management Process] process you brought us and the Simplex sessions you facilitated helped us ramp up our engineers’ skills to where we led the company in new products and patents. Your dedication was inspiring…”
Russ C, Vice President HR, TRW |
- If your organization could and should be doing better…
- If your company’s market share seems to be in a plateau, or progress is painfully slow …
- If people in your organization seem to only think “inside the box”…
We can help you implement an Organizational Development (OD) strategy that will address today’s challenges today and position you for dominance in your industry for tomorrow.
OD means different things to different people. At Banks International we believe that OD is about developing, integrating, and enabling the very best functional culture (how things are done) and social culture (how people work together and interact).
Our focus is to help the client adopt an OD strategy that advances adaptability, drives efficiency, and develops flexibility. Research has shown that focusing on these three things intelligently balances both short term and long term objectives of the organization.
Banks International will help you navigate through a proven strategic OD planning and execution process that will deliver a durable advantage over your competitors. Both, the 21st Century Advantage™ culture change process and the Simplex® process drive Banks International’s approach
“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.”
Alfred North Whitehead |
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Managing Change . . . powered by 21st Century Advantage™ and Simplex®
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“Banks International’s services have definitely been of tremendous help in our business. The improved business parameters in our organization… were key for the progress of our managers and employees. Thanks for the learning shared.”
Ernesto Huerta, National Director, Labor Relations, Ford of Mexico |
Managing Change, as used within this context, refers to managing the actual transformation of a corporate culture.
The 21st Century Advantage™ approach, coupled with the renowned Simplex® technology guides organizations on how to prepare for and manage the following 5 areas that create opposition and hurdles to change:
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Unpredictability
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Reluctance to change |
Our approach is to make it easy to unlearn - and motivational to relearn - in other words, make it easier for people to embrace change. see culture change.
“Organizations that do not succeed at changing and evolving continuously are either interested in their obsolescence or are managing everything but change itself.”
James P. Womack et al, authors of National Bestseller THE MACHINE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD |
For additional information on consultation, see services and products.
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