Nuturns Encounter

The next and the 2nd phase of NuTurns journey is NuTurns Encounter^TM

If phase 1 is about co-creating the purpose, clarifying future, eliciting diamonds, identifying obstacles and finalizing group habits, then phase 2 is all about refining an executive’s leadership skills & behaviors and developing his/her team.

The ultimate objective and the context of NuTurns Encounter^TM is to enable an executive and his team to achieve Diamonds. Diamond is a metaphor for the strategic/ focus area of a specific function for next 6 months.

Following are some of the examples of Diamonds which we had elicited, collaboratively, with the executive leadership team.

Planning: 1) Long term capacity planning 2) Zero waiting time (inventory 7 days). 3) 80% shipment
Design/ Engg.: 1) Maximum Die Index. 2) Optimum Yield (think and do 75%)
Machining: 1) Industry 4.0 detailed To Do’s (actions) for one model line (SB-1)
Quality: 1) Process capability monitoring for critical machines on export line. 2) Surprise audit of critical operations on export line
Sales and Marketing: 1) Grow business by 15% with new products. 2) 2X Roadmap at least 35% detail
HR: 1) Create a value based culture
Finance: 1) To maximize valuation of the company and raising right funds at right time at right cost
Accounts: 1) Generate timely and accurate M.I.S reports

The Problem

Clarity of purpose and direction doesn’t guarantee that an executive and his team will walk the path of Diamonds. We as human beings are hardwired and designed to take the well-trodden path. It takes time for us to embrace change. We avoid, resist and postpone change. So we need someone, preferably a third person who can coach, motivate and stretch (thinking) us and upgrade your old behaviors.

We would rather be ruined than changed
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die.”

W.H.Auden

In our 15 years of industry experience, we have come across many sr. leadership executives, who knowingly or unknowingly, get trapped in some of the following unproductive habits and behaviors. Please note the following is not an all inclusive list.

Getting comfortable with ill-defined authority, responsibility and accountability
Multi-tasking (various studies have proven that multi-tasking reduces your efficiency by 40% or more)
Telling, instead of asking/ coaching
Playing not to lose, instead of playing to win big
Drilling silo thinking (though many a times unintentionally)
Optimizing a part, instead of a system
Taking decisions locally, instead of looking at a bigger (system) picture
Fighting on personalities (people), instead of ideas.
Fear of challenging the status quo
Preferring to be silent, instead of raising the flag and speaking up.
Feeling uncomfortable to hold colleagues accountable for the promises they make

The Solution

The executives, who are accountable for their Diamonds are coached individually, through one-on-one conversations by our specialist “Diamond Coaches”.

The teams (that report to the executives) are developed through group conversations to accelerate the process of manifesting Diamonds. Our experienced “Diamonds Coaches” encourage, confront, question, and above all,

consistently honour, respect, and support the executives and their teams in sharpening and developing their skills and behaviors.

So in “NuTurns Encounter” the focus shifts from an organization to a specific function, where an executive and the respective team is coached to enable them to achieve the Diamonds.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is, but if your treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he he will become what he ought and could be.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

How is NuTurns Navigator used?

Post NuTurns Navigator^TM to refine the leadership skills and behaviors which are essential for achieving the Diamonds
Post NuTurns Navigator^TM to develop an executive’s team to accelerate and manifest Diamonds