AIM's Strategy for Organisational Development

The Organisational Development Programmes are offered to businesses where renewed purpose, motivation and drive are required, but also in organisations where restructuring, such as mergers are causing stress and uncertainty amongst management and workers alike.

AIM's purpose in leadership development in organisations is to facilitate a process of growth which benefits both the individual and the organisation: If the individual realizes his/her individual (work and life) outcomes based on an understanding of his/her Unique Design© - then the organisation will be able to reach its goals.

AIM has been offering a comprehensive Organisational Leadership Development Programme at middle and executive management level. This programme encompasses personal and professional mastery, emotional intelligence, team leadership, mentor training, and a basic understanding of the business principles of service delivery, human and resource management, as well as project management. This programme is at present facilitated by AIM in the Emerging Leadership Programme in the South African Police Service.

Based on its experience in organisations, AIM's strategy for Organisational Development is:

• Preferably, to provide Executive Coaching/Mentoring to the leader(s) of the organisation, department or unit. This influential person then becomes the champion of the development process in the organisation.
• 360° Assessment of the leadership, management or team is performed in order to determine the collective and individual developmental needs. These assessments could include psychometric testing (e.g. MBTI personality, BarOn EQ-i emotional intelligence, CPP cognitive processing assessment). The further organisational development process is based on a contextualized understanding of the dynamics of the organisation.
• Further interventions could include the following:
  • Team Development focussing on aspects such as team leadership, team values, team strategy.
  • A Values Integration Process in which questionnaires are used to assess the values-driven behaviour of a team/unit. A Gap Analysis process is then employed to formulate a values-based team development strategy.
  • Mentor Training for leaders and managers providing an understanding of the roles of a mentor and fostering mentoring skills such as listening and thinking skills.

AIM runs an Electronic Support Service to support its programmes, if required.

The format of all of AIM's programmes are activity-based and interactive workshops. Principles of adult learning such as transformational, constructivist, and social learning provide the guidelines for the methodology employed.

Consultants who are specialists in the areas of leadership development, mentoring and organisational development are employed by AIM in order to provide a process customized to the needs of every client.