Business Constellations, Paradigm Shifts and Change Management
A Business Constellation is a solution-focused process, which helps leaders of organizations to identify the complex, often informal, relationships and inter-dependencies within their organization and to develop a deeper understanding about the underlying dynamics in a very time- and cost-efficient manner. The effectiveness of this method has of late been scientifically proven by various research studies.
It has become a widely accepted discipline in business consultancy, organizational development and change management. The process serves as a platform to solve business issues and to create future change – e.g. developing a sustainable corporate culture, optimizing the organization’s performance and enabling the strengths of individual team members as well as the team as a whole to fulfill their tasks in the most productive way.
Business Constellations can be used in a stand-alone workshop setting or be embedded within the wider scope of a change management process and be combined with other methods of intervention.
This was an approach to what can be an individual process regarding change.
Change it is all about people, starting by the executives, who, many a time are the first ones to resist and not understand what change is about.
Now, about shifting values, we are faced with the concept of “paradigm shift” – what is it really about?
Leaders of cultures recognize that their traditional paradigm is out of date, and perhaps this leads them to assume that a ‘paradigm-shift’ program will provide the remedy. Culture change is not simply about how you see yourself and others. It is about how the system works, i.e. how we do the work together, rather than how we work together
The paradigm shift is to understand how to act on the organization as a system. However, initiatives which threaten the current operating culture are typically resisted to extinction, and many initiatives simply bear no relation to the economic performance of the organization
The most critical thing to understand about a paradigm is that, in a paradigm shift, everything goes back to zero.
What does that mean? It means that whatever made you successful in the old paradigm may not even be necessary in the new paradigm
What does that mean? It means that whatever made you successful in the old paradigm may not even be necessary in the new paradigm. But then one is faced with a paradox: changing a culture starts with different thinking about the work
If it would improve performance to do the work differently, how does it mean we should behave? Focusing on behavior without embedding it in a work context creates an entirely new pathology – people try to play a new game. By contrast, focusing on how we work, anchors improvement in things that are real, and opens the door to working on culture, in a way which has relevance and, more importantly, is palpably relevant. This new global world surrounds us with paradox.
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