Synergy involves creation of a new organizational reality – a bubble within which those involved share a purpose. As organization’s proprietor or top-level manager, your main function is to ensure…
To spark a conversation about diversity in your organization, facilitate an activity or process that can raise issues of diversity, and that activity must involve the mutual creation of a new reality. One such activity is the “message exercise” in which a brief instance of massaging the point where the neck and shoulder meet enables you to experience a new reality on a firsthand basis.
Synergy isn’t something to be taken for granted – it isn’t a chance occurrence. First off, you require deliberate planning and execution, but you require resources to ensure everything goes as planned. Second, it isn’t easy to achieve and maintain it. Lots of time and effort goes into assimilating synergy and creating a new reality. As a senior figure in your organization, you must figure out how much resources is available for the process. Let’s dig in!
A genuine and sincere effort to reduce formality and formalness can enhance the quality of interactions between people. Your perception of one’s culture isn’t always true. Hence, it would be practical and effective to make efforts to understand one’s diversity or culture, and to be more tolerant toward it. This would contribute to making boundaries flexible; hence, creating synergy.
You don’t need to agree and develop interpersonal chemistry with a culturally different group to work synergistically. You require to develop mutual respect, tolerance and understanding. But that would require you to make genuine, deliberate and sincere efforts.
Learning how to speak, behave and think in synergy terms can contribute to your change management skill. It’s a must-have for a proprietor or senior manager who’s serious about integrating the language of synergy in organization’s language and culture. Expressing oneself in synergy terms contributes to mutual respect, positivity, containment and empowerment during the synergy assimilation process.
Successful assimilation of the synergy process requires correct planning, diagnosis and implementation. It’s important to allocate a sustainable budget and sufficient time for the process. As a demonstration of commitment and sacrifice, slot in time for synergy activities in your work routine. If the synergy process doesn’t achieve its target, repeat the process.
As a senior manager, diagnosing early symptoms of an “organizational illness” is a must-have skill. Organizations are vulnerable to sickness during change processes, such as mergers and acquisitions, assimilation of new technology, procedure or culture, improvement of customer service, and change of leadership. You must consider organizational resources and objectives when troubleshooting problems.
