Organization-Wide Trauma
Scenario: An organization is experiencing multiple traumas such as financial crisis, leadership vacuum, board ineffectiveness, and programmatic stagnation.
CP Solution: Management using Open KI Management Model
Typically, an organization that needs an interim manager is already in the midst of a leadership crisis and perhaps a financial crisis as well, among other things. For that organization to bring in a leader who is coming in for a short period of time to lead a group of people at a time of great stress, they must find someone who is able to get “up to speed” very quickly in order to be able to perform. This person has a brief period of time in which to learn the specific industry served by that organization and the particulars of what it is he is going to be managing, because as soon as he gets comfortable with it, he’s going to be gone. Coming in cold, it’s imperative to rely on the staff, and a good leader will know how to empower that staff and rise to the occasion if they’re competent. The competency of the staff has to be determined very quickly, which almost always means job description changes and as well as letting some people go. This is determined by assessing where the weak link is in the personnel, or in the organizational design, which is diffusive to the organization.