DEVELOPMENT CONSULTING

Cerebral is a member of Grey Matter.

Cerebral’s focus is enabling organisations’ success through its people by applying sound organisation Development Methodology and Behavioural Theory. This methodology considers multiple factors necessary to enable people to thrive and perform to their optimal potential.

DEFINING ORGANISATION DEVELOPMENT

“ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IS A PROCESS FOR TEACHING PEOPLE HOW TO SOLVE PROBLEMS, TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OPPORTUNITIES, AND LEARN HOW TO DO BETTER AND BETTER OVERTIME.” (FRENCH AND BELL, 1999). “IT IS AN EFFORT, PLANNED, ORGANISATION WIDE AND MANAGED FROM THE TOP, TO INCREASE ORGANISATION EFFECTIVENESS AND HEALTH THROUGH PLANNED INTERVENTIONS, USING BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE KNOWLEDGE” (BECKHARD 1969.)

OUR SPECIFIC FOCUS AREAS

Diversity and inclusion facilitation including women in leadership
Leadership development including leadership programmes, individual and team coaching
Optimising organisational environments including culture and climate diagnostics
Enabling high performance teams including enhanced relationships, conflict resolution and contracting performance
Strategy, culture and values
Building change resilience
One-on-one and team business coaching
Coaching and mentoring programmes for both mentors and mentees

OUR PRINCIPLES

Our methodology is based on creating a self-sustaining learning organisation whereby we help the organisation to learn through rich dialogue.

Any initiative or process is always aligned to strategic formulation and achievement of the business objectives.

Any intervention considers multiple inputs and an appreciation of the organisational complexity including individuals, teams, organisations, market-related realities, business culture as well as performance outcomes.

OUR METHODOLOGY

“The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, but rather poses the right questions”

Claude Levi-Strauss

Rather than only provide solutions, the aim is to offer guidance to help organisations unpack and understand the full ambit and to take ownership of their own solutions
For any “process” to enable organisational sustainability, it must aim to leverage the collective wisdom and creation of shared meaning systems with stakeholders
In order to create ownership within organisation, co-creation of outcomes of decisions and resolutions must happen amongst the relevant members of the organisation

Methods Used To Achieve Business Objectives

Diagnostics, trend analysis, research and feedback on issues “above and below the surface”, seen and/or unseen, impacting on organisational effectiveness
Process and Dialogue based facilitation of individual/team and organization wide initiatives that aim to enable optimal business performance by:
- Creating a space for people to make sense of their current reality and desired future state
- Enabling clarity of their own behavioural norms, social fabric and how it enables or disables performance
- Leveraging the best solution required to achieve desired objectives
Leadership and team coaching on;
Critical success factors at a personal, interpersonal and institutional level required to thrive in a specific organizational context

DEVELOPMENT CONSULTING

DEFINING ORGANISATION DEVELOPMENT

OUR SPECIFIC FOCUS AREAS

OUR PRINCIPLES

OUR METHODOLOGY

Methods Used To Achieve Business Objectives

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