ANGIE'S CONSULTING COMPANY

Angie's Consulting Company

Table of Contents

Background4

Key Challenges4

Issue Analysis5

Leadership5

Communication7

Teams & Structure9

Power dynamics11

Challenges in Relation to Theories and Practices12

Organizational Boundaries13

Input, Transformation and output14

Boundaries14

Feedback14

Equal Finality15

Alignment15

Solutions15

Conclusion16

References18

Angie's Consulting Company

Background

Angie's consultancy expertise will cover all aspects of business consultancy, with our highly skilled consultants available to support organizations with all elements of organizational development, change management, project and programmed management, business process re-engineering, due diligence, risk management and contingency planning. Angie's is also renowned for being able to mobilize quickly for clients in any geographical or logistically challenging location. We are flexible and have a breadth of resource that enables us to deploy experienced large, small, or single consultant delivery teams with appropriate controls and delivery assurance.



Key Challenges

As the global economy emerges from the Great Recession, Angie's consultancy will experience its far-reaching effects, but it is not the only force at play as the organization continues to evolve. Technology, demographics, shifts in work relationships, regulatory environments, and globalization will also exert themselves to reshape work at Angie's consultancy firm. And many uncertainties remain about the future of the work that will affect the structure and practices of the work experience. Angie's consultancy firm will need to redesign models and identify the types of motivation, leadership, team dynamics, communication, structure, power flow, etc., that exist in our futuristic organization. The phenomenon are not new, but the shifting model of global work and growing disparities between skills and talent supply suggest that our firm will need to consider how people working under different models collaborate and integrate to create ongoing, consistent, and meaningful value.

Issue Analysis This section includes the models and the practices that we feel will be most useful to the management of our organizational construct. These models and concepts will be examined in relation to our new consultancy organization. Following are some of the basic theories that will be applicable to the construct of a new consultancy firm.

Leadership

Angie's consultancy imitates some of the most important leadership theories that are necessary to survive and maintain a competitive position in the consultancy industry for the next 5 years. Emerging in the private and public sectors, transformational theory identified a style of leadership in which leaders helped create change in a culture, institution, or process. Transformational leaders are those who inspire others, empower others, offer a vision of a better way or future, and aspire to high ethical standards. Political scientist Burns' classic 1978 book, Leadership, shifted the focus of leadership from the micro-level to the macro-level and emphasized the value of leaders to serve as change agents, to serve as transformative leaders. Burns is an advocate of a normative theory of leadership that emphasizes the ethical use of power. He argues that transformative leaders do not exercise power over followers; instead, they inspire and empower them. Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus (1985) argue that leaders lead by pulling rather than pushing and by inspiring rather than ordering. They add that leaders could help others excel by creating achievable though challenging expectations and ...