OS and Employee Satisfaction

[Larry Peterson]

I just met with a CEO of a major federal information non-profit who had
framed and sponsored two OS events - although not entirely planned that
way.  The first was with the Executive Team developing its strategy for
the next three years.  (That was my original contract).  The CEO had
planned to be the speaker at a Manager's retreat planned for a couple of
weeks after.  When they experienced the results from OST the Executive
and CEO decided to propose a similar OST for the Manager's event, framed
by the CEO.  It also was also productive and exciting.

The interesting bit is that they have used an International Consulting
Firm to do employment surveys and compare to their massive data base.
Although the organization as whole was already good - above the mean for
both public and private sector organizations - the managers had
typically scored the lowest by far.  The next survey took place about a
month after the events described above and the survey results for the
managers were "stunning" --  major jumps in almost all categories,
especially in teamwork, common goals and commitment.  The International
firm guys were amazed - said that the problem now will be sustaining
such a major change.

The data has not yet been shared with the managers or the rest of the
organization.  I have asked to have access to write a piece on it, but
don't know the response.  I thought I would share the story anyway and
will add more when I can.

Larry

Larry Peterson
Associates in Transformation
Toronto, ON, Canada
416.653.4829

 <mailto:larry at spiritedorg.com> larry at spiritedorg.com
 <http://www.spiritedorg.com> www.spiritedorg.com


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