Total poise, focusing on total organization development for sustainable high performance

Total organization development is based on developing and marshalling total poise in organizations. We see total poise as, key to sustainable high performance and break throughs in organizations.

The power of poise can be phenomenal in both living and non-living systems! People achieve a far greater performance when they are physically, mentally and emotionally vital than when they are physically, mentally and emotionally sick. An automobile delivers more power and superior performance when it fires on all cylinders than when its cylinders splutter and flounder.  In the corporate world, an organization accomplishes high performance and approximates excellence when all its systems-particularly its managerial and social systems, which drive, coordinate and align all the other systems- are in top condition. Total poise in an organization is obtained when all the key systems of the organization are nurtured, empowered, aligned and positioned to be the best they could be in order to give the best they could give. The ultimate challenge facing top management in a pulsating business environment is how to achieve and maintain total poise for breakthrough and sustainable high performance. Many times top management tends to allow their organizations to remain in a state of partial poise- so long as they are attaining an already defined level of profitability or productivity. In fact, had they focused on total poise-which enables all systems to deliver the potential they are capable of delivering-they might have achieved a quantum leap in overall performance; not during a particular fiscal year but through out the business life span. Thus, central to sustainable high performance management is total poise development.

TotalPoise Associates is committed to total poise development in organizations through assisting them to imaginatively facilitate the synergy of personal excellence and corporate excellence for driving sustainable high performance. We emphasize the essence of total poise, which we see as the condition of an organization when all its key systems and people are well honed and positioned for excellence. We see 'excellence' as: continuous personal or corporate improvement in order to be the best while simultaneously demonstrating character and integrity; i.e. to be the best, and keep being so, in a wholesome way. Under the ‘High Performance’ page, we briefly consider some elements, factors, models, frameworks, projects etc that underpin or drive synergy of personal and corporate excellence. for sustainable high performance. Our newsletter, TotalPoise Strategy, brings much more details and help to your inbox. Just click total organization development strategy.