ARE YOU OUR CLIENT?
At Jim Rough & Associates, Inc., we work with people who want to foster breakthrough levels of creativity and collaboration in groups, organizations, and governments. Our clients are leaders and change agents, whether they work in government agencies, business, nonprofits, educational institutions, or communities.
We also work with external change agents and other professionals who want to learn more effective ways of helping groups and organizations enter into the flow zone.
Are any of these true for you?
- Your organization is doing well, but there are a few significant issues that aren’t getting the attention they need - maybe because they are so big, they feel overwhelming and impossible-to-solve. While most of the time these issues may seem to fade into the background while business goes on as usual, you know that they aren’t going away...
- You have a great organization, and, as you’ve grown, there seem to be inevitable divisions that have grown among different departments... different perspectives... almost different languages, along with low-level friction and misunderstandings... Everything is working okay, but you know that missed communications have a cost...
- You have a vision of what is possible when everyone is contributing their best, but sometimes it feels like an uphill struggle to enliven others who don’t seem to want to take initiative, or who appear to be resisting the changes that are needed...
- You are in a situation that has become polarized. Long-standing differences around a particular issue have come to head. You know that in every crisis there is an opportunity, and you have some faith that everyone in the situation means well, but you don’t know how all this energy can be safely harnessed...
- Everything is okay, but you know that more is possible, and you want more... more active involvement, more participation, more creativity, more alignment. You want a “buzz” throughout the whole organization, you want people to care, to be motivated, to be engaged, to come alive...
- You work one-on-one with individuals or as an external consultant and you want to learn how to empower people to their fullest potential and resolve their most difficult issues. You have learned and applied a lot of different tools and techniques, but have found that your practice needs something more. In some cases, what you know how to do just isn’t doing the trick. It could be that you need something more - something that helps you re-orient to your personal mission...
- You are an elected official or you work for a city or government agency in the business of serving “the people.” You are constantly struggling under changing leadership to meet the needs of multiple stakeholders, from citizens to elected officials, from businesses to interest groups. Your efforts to engage these stakeholders often leads to polarization, difficult public meetings that don’t satisfy anyone, special interests dominating the agenda, and a void in determining solutions that will work for all...
- You want to pursue new models of governance that incorporate values beyond the bottom line. You might be a cooperatively-owned business wanting to use more democratic decision-making to involve all your owners in shared governance. Or, a traditionally structured business seeking to move to a less-hierarchical model. You observe that the old business models aren’t evolving the organization where it needs to go and you know something more is possible...
Characteristics of successful clients:
You
have an important contribution to make to the success of
our work together. We find that our successful clients
share many of the following traits:
- You are willing to be authentic
- You are committed to your own personal growth
- You are willing to take risks, in order to move to the next level
- You are interested in catalyzing culture change in the organization, instead of just applying band-aid solutions
- You feel a sense of responsibility toward something larger than yourself and larger than your organization
Next, learn more about how we work.
