GLOBAL SOFTWARE BUSINESS CASE STUDY

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Increasing pace and commitment across the organization to deliver strategic priorities

The business challenge

A strong underpinning of care and empathy has always been present within our client’s organization, which proved to be a key asset during the pandemic. Our client’s culture has always been seen as a strength but it had elements which needed to change to support an evolving strategy and need to transform.

With a passionate CEO and CPO at the helm, our client was looking to make key shifts including moving from on-premise to SaaS and, strengthening its customer-centric and innovative culture, making the most of a global scale and matrix organization. They focused on establishing greater accountability and transparency across the organization to create better contracting and clarity across the teams, more direct conversations and dial up the power of commitment and trust.

Walking the Talk delivered an 8-hour development program for the top 400 leaders, operationalizing our highly practical framework set out in Carolyn Taylor’s book ‘Accountability at work’ to work on key behaviors and mindsets to support their culture goals of accountability and transparency.

Bottom line

  • This program involved the executive team, together with the top 350 leaders across the business in 11 countries: UK, Ireland, US, Canada, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, South Africa, Australia, and Singapore. 95% of the program was delivered virtually because of Covid restrictions, 5% face-to-face.

  • We ran a 2-step program; an initial half-day to explore and operationalize the accountability model, using real-time business challenges and opportunities. This resulted in each leader leaving with specific skills and actions to experiment with.

  • Follow-up sessions took place 6-8 weeks later, during which leaders shared their experiences, reflected on the new concepts and language, and consolidated the learning.

  • This was supported by preparation and check-in calls throughout the program, and pre/post assessment surveys to assess the impact of the program on key behaviors.
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Outcomes achieved

  • Improved most behaviors addressed through the program amongst 350 leaders.

  • Improved organizational outcomes including faster decision-making and clearer commitment between interdependent business areas.

  • Increased Accountability to generate pace, reliability, agility and empowerment.

  • Achieved a 12X ROI within 9 months (estimated).
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Workstreams

  • Customization of content to accelerate desired business outcomes of speed, reliability for results, democratization of effort, improved lateral coordination.

  • Delivery (virtual and face-to-face) of the program for 37 leadership teams.

  • Training of internal colleagues to build internal capability and co-facilitate sessions.

  • Creation of impact measurement framework (including a bank of commercial impact stories).

  • Provision of additional resources and materials to embed new habits.
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