Science-Based Solutions for Creating Dynamic, High-Performance Work Culture

Syncresis Consulting is a Canadian-based organizational design and development firm.

We help leaders build vibrant, healthy enterprises that are adaptive and resilient by using evidence-based approaches to change.

We specialize in organizational effectiveness, organizational culture change, high performance team development and workplace mental health. 

 

Are you struggling with any of these problems?

  • Do you feel like your team is operating below its performance potential and you want to take things to the next level?
  • Are you frustrated or confused by disengaged employees? 
  • Is your organization suffering from high turn-over and bleeding valuable talent?
  • Are you and your staff struggling with burnout, because the current way of operating simply isn't sustainable?


After working with us you'll see...

  • Increased engagement, commitment and job-satisfaction among staff
  • Decreased turn-over and increased long-term retention of employees and associated cost-savings
  • Increased organizational health and resilience and associated cost-saving
  • Increased organizational effectiveness, productivity and innovation

Our Approach to helping you

Culture is the only sustainable competitive advantage for organizations today. 

 

While there are many other aspects that go into developing a healthy top-performing organization such as strategy, organization design, processes, and technology – culture overshadows them all. 

 

As the old saying goes…”culture eats strategy for breakfast”

 

As such, our approach to helping optimize your organization usually starts with culture. While we will certainly help you address the other key components of organizational effectiveness, we start with the activities and interventions that produce the biggest, most lasting results, and that almost always requires a focus on culture.

The Big Rocks

Here’s an overview of the core components of our approach to culture change. Our approach is based on practices built from decades worth of research in disciplines ranging from systems science, organizational studies, social psychology and cognitive and behavioural neuroscience. 

1. Leadership & team development. A top-down development process for managers and executives, A healthy optimally functioning leadership team that serves as a model for the rest of the organization is a prerequisite to building a healthy high-performing enterprise. Optimizing communication, collaboration and problem solving in the leadership team is a crucial first step in setting the stage for culture change.

2. System-wide engagement and collective problem solving processes. This  includes examination and improvement of organizational processes and design using a participatory approach, if required. Our approach involves engaging staff in the process of diagnosing organizational problems, and designing and implementing solutions. This has the dual impact of generating high-quality solutions and engaging and empowering staff to take ownership of the problem solving and continuous improvement process 

3. Learning, development and change support. Coaching and training on strategies, processes, and best practices for ongoing development and continuous improvement. Behaviour change and culture change is hard and usually requires outside support in order to become fully and sustainably implemented. Here we bring-in customized support in the form of coaching and training to ensure that changes are not only successful and lasting but that continuous improvement long into the future. 

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Why you should choose us

Most other consulting firms will try to sell you on quick fixes that only superficially address the symptoms of your organizational challenges… 

Our company mission is rooted in helping you have a concrete impact and create meaningful lasting change in your organization. And we have a track-record of doing it sucessfully.

 

We use a systems approach to help you get to the root of your challenges, and build lasting solutions and ongoing capacity improvements in your organization.  

 

We won’t BS you, there are no magic pills and change doesn’t happen overnight. We’ll be honest with you about what it takes and what you need to do to make it happen. Then we’ll help you outline a clear strategy and support you every step of the way.

 

Stop spinning your wheels, repeating ineffective patterns that are sapping your organization’s energy and keeping it from operating at its full potential and getting the results you want. 

 

Let's chat about your situation and how we can help...

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A Few Words About Us

Many people ask, what does “Syncresis” mean?

Syncresis is a word that comes from ancient Greek philosophy which means to combine different ideas, beliefs, practices or schools of thought into something new. It integrates and unifies diversity into new ways of being, and can be compared to the idea of finding “win-win” solutions or a “3rd way” between opposing views. ‘Syncresis’ symbolizes the essence behind our consulting approach, to find better ways of doing things that integrate old ways of doing things into a new higher order of existence.

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