What We Do
Overview
Parr Lamond & Associates is a South African Organisation Development consultancy that assists organisations to be successful through their compelling vision, the maturity of their leaders, the vibrancy of their culture and the resourcefulness of their people.
We add the most value when the leaders’ bold vision requires performance to rise to significantly higher levels for the organisation to exploit new opportunities. If your strategy creates demands for new solutions to more complex problems and more intelligent decision-making across the board, our leadership development and cultural change initiatives can make this happen more quickly and easily.
Since PLA was established in 1987 we have worked with over 50 organisations; from financial services to manufacturing concerns, legal firms to NGOs. We have helped start-up businesses and multinational corporations, single-site enterprises and international conglomerates.
The Needs We Meet
We draw on research and models from the constantly-evolving field of Organisation Development and combine it with our wealth of experience, to assist your organisation to create the future you want and need.
Organisational future-fitness
Your enterprise needs its people to think strategically and to be adaptable, realistic and resilient so that your organisation is fit for the future. We meet these needs by stretching people’s perceptions of what is possible and growing their capacity to achieve this.
Inventive Leaders
Your enterprise needs leaders to first make sense of the context and increasing complexity of their work and then guide the evolution of the organisation. We facilitate this process by working with leaders to help them take on this extraordinary task, enabling them to inspire performance that differentiates organisations.
Synergistic teams
Your enterprise needs break-through ideas and people who are determined to strive together to create something that’s new and different. We help teams to become aware of the strengths and limitations of their performance and we give them the skills to realise their collective potential.
Capable people
Your organisation’s potential for greatness depends on the mental and emotional resourcefulness of its people. We equip them to bring new thinking to existing problems with vigorous thinking skills and deepen their emotional intelligence and maturity.
Products and Services
We have yet to encounter two companies that require exactly the same services. As a result, we always deliver solutions that are customised to your needs. These needs fall into five logical categories:
Business strategy focuses on understanding the environment and making decisions about what must be done to grow the business. We specialise in working with you to develop your vision of the kind of organisation you need to be, to achieve your strategic goals. Our strategic alignment process ensures that everyone is up to speed and engaged in meeting expectations. [Read more...]
Leaders define an organisation’s identity through their values, aspirations and behaviour. Their choices get copied, often unconsciously, by everyone else so their impact stretches to the very edges of the organisation. This is their awesome power and their unavoidable responsibility. Our development processes help leaders to take this on. They are designed for people with different organisational challenges but are linked by the same values and assumptions about successful leadership. [Read more...]
The intangible nature of culture makes it feel unmanageable. We believe that it only seems that way, and that its subtle but powerful impact on performance makes it way too significant to ignore. We make it more visible and objective and enrol everyone in the responsibility for making it adaptive and creative. [Read more...]
Keeping up isn’t enough any more. To get ahead, innovative organisations rely on teams that work. We know that creative solutions emerge only when expertise and experience clash in the safety of a cohesive unit. Our processes transform groups of individuals into strong teams that distinguish your organisation. [Read more...]
It’s so easy for the excitement of learning to be overcome by the inertia of old behavioural patterns. When that happens, people become disillusioned, perhaps even cynical. New understanding needs reinforcement to be practically applied. We help people to develop new habits to entrench a performance culture. [Read more...]