HEALTHY ORGANIZATION

A “healthy” organization is fiscally, physically and emotionally fit. Imagine achieving life balance and the high performance that leadership books talk about but companies rarely achieve! Imagine truth being spoken! Imagine your people as excited to be at work, as they are leaving to go home!

The journey is simple, but not easy to live. Miick and Associates has helped hundreds of clients become healthy organizations. Here is our prescription in three, interconnected processes:

1. Fiscal Health A healthy organization is fiscally proactive, always anticipating potential course-correction. Fiscal performance needs are anticipated, and include the business model itself, pro forma design, budgeting, financial planning and daily costing models. Being proactive means looking forward, anticipating outcomes and reaction. Importantly, fiscal tools are not just for senior management. Managers and staff members at all levels are trained how to read and use these anticipatory fiscal tools. This is vitally important to an organization’s health. The goal is greater involvement at all levels. The outcome: higher performance and profitability.

2. Physiological Health A healthy organization’s team is mindful, and particularly choiceful in action. Team members are consciously aware and have a sense of purpose. Consciousness and mindfulness can be manifested in a myriad of ways, for example: taking the time to breathe, knowing how to breathe with intention, building reflection time into your day, taking time to exercise, and awareness of proper nutrition. Physiological health is often overlooked yet when fully developed within all team members, it adds exponential energy in the performance of your organization.

3. Emotional Health Imagine working in a system where drama is rare, and emotions are positive and productive. Imagine that your team members are able to have tough conversations directly with each other on time, and in caring ways. An emotionally healthy organization communicates in a way that builds “business muscle”. It is stronger and more effective as a whole. There is commonality of purpose. Goals are shared, and all team members are focused on the endgame, instead of the drama and roadblocks that sidetrack progress and performance. The impact of clear communication is healthier lives, stronger teams, stronger sense of self, and higher performance overall. Period.