What We Do
“We don’t stop being human beings when we become employees,
and we all bring our humans to work”
- FIG
Employers hire skill sets and, sometimes the savvy ones think about the ‘fit’ and how a personality might blend with the existing culture. Oftentimes (frequently!), this is not part of the equation.
FIG aligns the core values and mission of organizations leadership with the humans who happen to be their employees. The best minds in the world could come together and create a flawless blueprint for success. However, if the people involved with implementation suffer from low morale, infighting, mistrust, one-upmanship, box-ticking, or anything else that holds teams back from their potential, the blueprint is entirely useless.
Most organizational problems are human ones.
Strategy fails on the human level.
Technical capability stalls when leadership behavior, team communication, and organizational culture aren't aligned with the mission and vision of the organization.
Future Image Group has been diagnosing and crafting practical, understandable, coherent, applicable solutions organizations’ alignment with companies objectives as a strategic partner to the leaders and teams and resolving exactly those challenges for more than 11 years.
Assessment
We don’t know what we don’t know.
Our first step is determining the accessibility of the humans who happen to be employees - supervisor to subordinate, subordinate to supervisor, peer to peer, meaning: are you willing to look at potential blind spots or approach to leadership in your organization? Are you willing to take an honest inventory of what is serving well and what may be getting in your way from advancing your intended outcomes? And, are you willing to embrace the (hard!) work to implement and execute changes?
Once this is established, each engagement begins with a candid, independent third-party evaluation to determine where the human disconnect exists, between leadership and teams, across departments, through periods of change or transition before we design any solution.
Tailored Program Design
FIG designs customized programs crafted specifically to align organizations mission and values with the humans who are employed. Informed by our proprietary curriculum, and tailored specifically for our individual clients based on the findings of our initial assessment whether we’re working with a single executive, a leadership team, or an entire organization.
Delivery
Strictly based on the scope of the project and what the intentions are for the assignment. Usually conducted through one-on-one and departmental meetings and team training all specifically and efficiently designed for the objectives of the organization.
Measurable Results
Some of the more common challenges facing individuals and organizations include (and are certainly not limited to!) are: Accountability, Intentional Goal Setting, Healthy Conflict, Transparency, Recognition, Adaptability and a Growth Mindset. FIG's focus is behavioral change through raising awareness, shifting perspectives and refining technical and leadership skills; Working to adjust them and produce a business environment that is effective, psychologically safe, focused specifically on the stated goals of the business, efficient, orderly, organized and profitable.
Simply put, the end result should be: Everyone in the same boat pulling it in the same direction, to get to the same destination.
Our Partners
FIG works closely with several partners to provide you with the necessary tools and data to allow you to see tangibly how the problems FIG solves affect your business.
SKOR - FIG has a partnership with SKOR which is able to calculate a company’s profit losses based on 7 basic human traits in the workplace.
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For executive teams and senior leaders navigating transformation, cultural challenges, workforce engagement, and the interpersonal dynamics that determine whether leadership actually lands across every domain where leadership operates: Clear intentions, envisioning what could be, planning what will serve the organization, and executing the stated initiatives.
For organizations moving through mergers, acquisitions, or significant structural change re-organizations; cultural compatibility and leadership trust aren't assumptions that can be made, they're outcomes that have to be understood, built, taught and practiced ubiquitously. Change is hard! Unambiguous, straightforward and transparent communication and messaging require enormous thought, crafting and clarity targeted to each specific stakeholders, individuals and teams take an intention, planning and executing which are far too often overlooked or not prioritized. Ignoring these calculations are almost always the reason(s) big changes can go south. FIG helps orchestrate this process thinking.
Constructive debate can often be a launching point for brilliant ideas, strategies, and initiatives. Conflict is a fact of life. Healthy conflict and disagreement are a vital element for any employee in an organization to be comfortable with and most humans don’t love it. FIG provides tools, perspectives and mindsets to take the sting out of the fear of conflict and focus on the business at hand. We offer, teach and model effective strategies to tease the human emotion navigate to a positive outcome, read: arguing to a resolution not just to ‘win’ in order to manage conflict effectively.
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