Organizational Health

Greetings!  My name is Nerissa Conn and I am the founder of Quincunx Consulting.  I wanted to give you some insight to who we are as a company.  As the CEO, I have over 13 years of experience in education management, teaching, and coaching. Before founding Quincunx Consulting, I had spent a significant amount of time as a team member, managing different teams, and being managed by a variety of "leaders".  With every position that I held came a different view of an organization, as well as what contributed to a healthy organization.  In my experience, organizational health isn't discussed as much as it should be and I want to bring awareness to the topic. When something goes wrong, we tend to focus on people, positions, money, or external circumstances.  If an organization is struggling, a bad employee might be one of the symptoms of the overall problem, but it shouldn’t be the diagnoses.  

When a person is sick or warn out, they take a sick day to recover.  So why not take a sick day as an organization, such as an employee retreat?  Each employee is a contributing factor to the health of an organization, so how much time are we devoting to their success and development to keep the organization healthy? Monitoring organizational health is necessary, just as each one of our organs has a function to keep us healthy, each employee has a function to keep the organization healthy.  When you develop each employee, you are improving the health and function of the organization as a whole.  Evaluating the health of your organization frequently is essential, when conducting your evaluation it is important to look for the following symptoms of sickness:

Employees wasting time 

Leaders arriving late/leaving early

Employees working more than 50 hours a week on non-peak times

Long ineffective meetings

Leaders constantly fire-fighting

Fake harmony

Culture that lacks accountability

Continuously working with an Ad Hoc budget 

Over the next few months, I will be addressing each one of these topics, and giving insight on solutions.  Our company is focused on each one of your employees, therefore the solutions provided will be employee focused and as a leader you will be there to inspire, as well as drive the change.  Your insight and comments are always appreciated!

Quincunx Consulting's model hires professionals on a contract basis.  Our contractors are required to hold a PhD (or at least be ABD) or an MBA with a minimum of 10 years of experience.

Please go to www.quincunxconsulting.org to schedule a consultation.