Though all the advantages of using dynamic self-governance are available to any type of business or group, different types of organizations particularly value certain of its benefits.
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Corporations
- Increases worker engagement, productivity, and commitment
- Kindles creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurial spirit
- Enhances adaptability, flexibility, and responsiveness
- Eases leading
- Boosts morale
- Improves client orientation
- Simultaneously amplifies profit potential and social/environmental sustainability
- Develops in-house management potential
- Reduces sick leave
- Decreases number of meetings and heightens productivity of meetings
- Improves client orientation
- Facilitates quality certification under ISO 9000
Associations
- Reduces tensions around power
- Maintains autonomy in chapters while enhancing alignment among chapters
- Fosters member engagement
- Augments sense of public mission
Educational Institutions
- Engages students in developing their own learning process
- Supports peers in giving and receiving leadership
- Bolsters success in grant awards
- Reinforces research focus
Social Change Organizations
- Maximizes both inclusion and efficiency
- Honors the intrinsic value and wisdom of every person
- Offers a "power-with" governance structure in line with social change values
- Amplifies ability to attract and hold volunteers
- Strengthens financial viability
Local Governments
- Creates deep democracy -- truly inclusive governance
- Stimulates creative solutions to solve social problems
- Activates neighborhoods with a structure for meaningful involvement
Communities (churches, cohousing, neighborhoods)
- Structures peer-led endeavors
- Develops group ingenuity for problem solving
- Builds community
- Streamlines decision-making while engaging and empowering all members
Management Consultants
- Provides ability to offer all of the above advantages to clients
- Improves effectiveness of facilitation
- Enhances client loyalty and trust through dynamic self- governance certification
- Expands potential client base
Our facilitation, training, and consultation services provide access to all these benefits and more.
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