ConfluencePoint - the Business of Sustainability Want to Match it to the Earth's Future?
MAKING SUSTAINABILITY REAL for mid-cap and smaller companies.
ConfluencePoint can improve the performance of your business using sustainability as the driver. By focusing on personal values of your leadership group, employees and other stakeholders, our Seven-Step process produces a powerful, rapid and thorough cultural transformation that is based upon:
- proven financial stability
- a shared vision of the future
- a coherent strategic plan, and
- committed, responsible employees
Operating a business is like climbing any mountain: it requires a team that works together. Unless everyone on the mountain shares the goal and knows where s/he fits in, the team may fail. To succeed, they meet and talk about their goals, their roles and their commitments before they set out. They cross-train to back one another up. They all commit to success.
ConfluencePoint can provide a similar process, the human software - culture, communications, and commitment - for your organizations as it sets out to thrive in today's rapidly changing and challenging business world. Accordingly, regardless of the framework yo choose for change - The Natural Step, TQM, Kaizen, Lean, an EPA mandated Environmental Management System (EMS) or any other - ConfluencePoint ensures that the execution will be cost-effective, successful and enduring. The most common obstacle to executing corporate sustainable policies, in fact, is lack of employee understanding and commitment. The full understanding of goals and measurements will only be as effective as your culture and values enable it to be. ConfluencePoint matches employee understanding and commitment with financial analysis of new projects to make sustainability real for you.
What Makes Real Sustainability?
Successful Green Strategies require:
- Executive leadership involvement in the development and implementation of a sustainability plan and accountability for the results
- Transparency with all employees and key stakeholders that impact the business' success (or failure)
- Employee understanding and support for the changes
ConfluencePoint supports leadership and employees with customized training modules and uniquely appropriate metrics for measuring progress, results, and project ROI. Also important: our objectivity will help demolish business unit silos that typically undermine project success.
The new way may not be comfortable for leadership; the transparency and safe, open communications that are necessary conditions seldom are. But in the turbulence that is predicted in this new era, higher ROI and employee enthusiasm will reward those willing to do the work. The more rapid and bold the change, the more thorough and permanent it is likely to be.
The result? YOU get an innovative company pursuing a positive strategy when your competitors are on the defensive - easier to manage with more time for executives to lead with purpose - to drive your business to truly thrive.
ConfluencePoint facilitates the transformation of your company. We Provide expert guidance in organizational change, resource optimization, and strategic planning to our client - including employees in the process.
Our focus is mid-cap to smaller firms (25-500 employees) with particular emphasis on firms that embrace or aspire to Lean and continuous improvement practices.
But, you may ask, Why should you change anything?
Here's why - with the changes in environmental conditions and world population
- Regulations are changing.
- Your customers have changed.
- The whole context of business has changed.
The Successful Business of the future has not one but three necessary characteristics
- Financial High Performance
- Environmental Adaptation and Innovation
- Social Responsibility
Where
do these elements of the Triple Bottom Line converge?
We Can Guide You to that
ConfluencePoint.
Do you still need reasons? Here try these:
- You can't assume that the underlying conditions in which we do business will remain the same forever;
- Sustainability strategies in business will be required to ensure life for our successors on earth;
- Sustainability can bring growth and profits.
If you've tried a sustainability policy, but nothing changed read this -
Sustainability is not an add-on. Appointing your Safety Coordinator or your PR chief as Sustainability Coordinator does nothing if you, the CEO, fail to ask for a plan and to make clear your support for it. Outside help can often strengthen your leadership at low cost and ensure development of a solid plan, suggest ways unique to your company of measuring your progress and your returns, and break down silos that prevent action on your plan. But you have to care personally, and you have to give it your attention.
To succeed, going green requires a fundamental realignment of your company's purpose and therefore your management approach. If you accept that, you will strengthen your ability to get critical information and to lead - as well as to gain profitability. You can anticipate higher ROI and, in the bargain, employee enthusiasm from your relaxation of control.
To succeed, going green requires a fundamental realignment of your company's purpose and therefore your management approach. If you accept that, you will strengthen your ability to get critical information and to lead - as well as to gain profitability. You can anticipate higher ROI and, in the bargain, employee enthusiasm from your relaxation of control.
Employee understanding and support of the change is one key to success. Once employees are enrolled, the rest flows naturally.
There is a Paradox in organizational change: the more rapid and bold the change, the more thorough and permanent it is likely to be. RAPID, THOROUGH, PERMANENT and REWARDING - These are bold claims, and we can perform on them.
There is a Paradox in organizational change: the more rapid and bold the change, the more thorough and permanent it is likely to be. RAPID, THOROUGH, PERMANENT and REWARDING - These are bold claims, and we can perform on them.
The result for you is an innovative company pursuing a positive strategy - easier to manage with more time for you to think - and ultimately more competitive, more profitable.
ConfluencePoint is available to work with you to transform your company. We provide impressive skills in organizational change, lean and continuous improvement, and financial planning to our clients.
If you are a mid-cap or smaller firm, especially if you are using lean or continuous improvement, and you meet the financial and management criteria we introduce in step one of our Seven Steps to SustainabilityTM,
ConfluencePoint is available to work with you to transform your company. We provide impressive skills in organizational change, lean and continuous improvement, and financial planning to our clients.
If you are a mid-cap or smaller firm, especially if you are using lean or continuous improvement, and you meet the financial and management criteria we introduce in step one of our Seven Steps to SustainabilityTM,
We can show you how to
adopt sustainability,
increase margins,
and enhance your leadership of your company.
adopt sustainability,
increase margins,
and enhance your leadership of your company.
We find that sustainability often requires changes in a company's culture, breaking down silos and coordinating a company-wide alignment in support of sustainability. Building a broad consensus and understanding of the goals will enable you, the CEO, to eliminate much of the need for convincing, explaining, and enforcing. Knowing the goals also frees up employees to increase productivity. The process frees you up to lead and manage by exception. Together, these results of consensus lower your costs and increase your management effectiveness.
We have developed innovative approaches to estimating true returns from investments in sustainability. If you, like most of us, have to calculate carefully your anticipated return on investment, we may be able to give you tools to enroll your board and other stakeholders.
A Word of Warning:
Wherever you want to start in your process, we insist on a few conditions that distinguish us from other consultants. First we insist on an assessment interview with your CEO or owner to determine your readiness to proceed: go/no-go
Wherever you want to start in your process, we insist on a few conditions that distinguish us from other consultants. First we insist on an assessment interview with your CEO or owner to determine your readiness to proceed: go/no-go
