Integral Link

Implementation

Broadly speaking our integral approach to business solutions supports any starting point by considering two elements; basis and process.

BASIS. Wherever integral practice is applied it first grounds itself in raising awareness and mindfulnes of the individual, the group, their environment, and how they might inter-act. This sits in conjunction with generating a clear and motivating vision of what is desired. These basics are raised and clarified through intregal practice as enquiry.

PROCESS. By holding these two positions as the drivers, a similar approached is taken to maintaining the emergence and implementation of chosen strategies that will generate the desired outcome. This alignment of people and processes through integral practice focuses the desire, work skills, and means to assess progress that will support outcome.

New insights, knowledge or understanding; improved skills or altered behaviours; new or more profound emotional competencies.

The development of new knowledge, understanding or awareness is by far the most common outcome associated with intregal practice. Within this category, research data suggest that people can: identify unquestioned assumptions, becoming more aware of perceptual shortcuts and environmental cues gaining innovative perspectives; identify alternative ways of thinking; clarify visions and goals; and make tacit knowledge explicit.

The literature also consistently suggests that these methods can have the development of new skills and behaviours as an outcome. For example, individuals can: develop deep listening, and empathy and other interpersonal communication skills; take on new roles; formulate better questions; improvise; become more creative; solve problems; and engage in more meaningful and productive discussion and performance.

Intregal practice is also commonly associated with the experience of richer, more positive emotions. Data suggests that integral practice can help people: to become more energized; to cultivate commitment; to develop self-confidence; to increase tolerance for ambiguity; to develop trust; to become more engaged; and to feel more emotionally safe and satisfied.

Finally, literature also suggests there are associations with a series of performance outcomes, including: higher grades; more adaptive strategies; improved powers of concentration and perseverance.

Individual skills resulting in development of motivational and attitudinal changes and will regularly include new behaviours in; listening; communication; critical thinking; awareness; leadership; problem solving; self-knowledge; creativity.

Collective capacities affected include; effective team-work; an ability to succeed with organizational objectives. Improved dialogue and shared understanding; ability for teams/collectives to engage in more productive and meaningful discussions. Collective intelligence/creativity; enhanced collective capacity for idea development. Collective identity; ability to find shared understanding;

Organizational phenomena include improved organizational performance; effective reorganizing of functional structures and workflow designs. Organizational learning; balanced strategic planning. Organisational identity; cultural changes and organizational identity development. Improved services and product quality; increased customer satisfaction through holistic customer experiences. Better work environment; reduction of accident rates and increased productivity through lower sick leave and absenteeism.

The process is generally one of emergence, though in an organisational sense it is most often being directed towards an outcome. Though not all, most intregal practices tend to be art-based experiences where ownership collaboration and communication are strong driving elements. However it’s the discussion and reflection that make the necessary links to their practical outcome. Intregal practise varies experiences and learning techniques to compliment the learning styles and personal experience of clients. In saying this, a key aim is still integration of differences. This is particularly important to any growth or learning where clear structure or information can seem incompatible with the uncertainty of change.

In essence our integral framework provides an effective template for designing, developing and evaluating forms of more integrative practice for and in organizations.

Employing this integral practice perspective provides a base on which to build a more sustainable and rewarding life-world within an organisation. In other words, effective and successful organisational members and leadership processes of the 21^st century, will be those that understand foster and help create and enact a more intregal way of organising, leading and following. Moreover with this perspective an intregal organisation reflecting intregal leadership will allow the realisation and enactment of practical wisdom. Such a “wise” organisation looks to developing its staff, its teams, its culture and its social systems towards more embracing forms of well-being. Forms that contribute to enhancing the leadership potential of all its members and the well-being and sustainability of the stakeholders and communities in which it operates will be surer of reaping success.

Effective life nurturing systems are self generating, that is to say involve creative principals. Experience and facilitation of these principles drive our work and understanding.

By nurturing this we know the most affective and effective business solutions are given capability to emerge. Our implementation solutions are designed to deliver business outcomes focused on engaging the inter-related qualities of people that drive results and impact outcomes throughout organisations all the way to the bottom line.

Acknowledging that solutions are always individual, we see the starting points and many of the answers lie already present within current situations and resources. The difference will be found in the ability to illicit the right questions, responses, leadership, and efforts to realize these possibilities. Successful results stem directly from the nature of their implementation.

IMPLEMENTATION

 Exfinities offers knowledge and concrete possibilities for realising and implementing transformational learning processes in organisations. Facilitated sessions that support intregal experiential learning enable what we term “intregal practice”.

When we are given a form of experience that demonstrates and reflects what both individuals and groups want to achieve, their understanding and engagement grows exponentially. This focused effort is the result of integral practice which serves as an experiential vehicle to facilitate this situation.

Within the field of organizational development our approach will support the application of many business models informed by leading edge practice. The key benefits of using intregal practice alongside some existing models for business solutions are that they will foster simultaneous development of core competencies at many interrelated levels e.g. Individual, Collective and Organisational

Levering on resources and know-how that transform and grow organisations, integral practice develops them revealing the ways that are appropriate and meaningful for their success.

David Kayrouz (Auckland, New Zealand) and Charles Bryant (Cape Town, South Africa), as founding members of Exfinity forge a bridge to create a global network  focusing on implementation as the effective key to gaining sustainable business solutions.

Business challenges are often experienced as stemming from the areas of Efficiency Sales or Communications and although numerous solutions are suggested by business concepts and theories, we contend that in most cases it’s not the models, but rather the approach to implementing and integrating them that fail.

• We focus on implementation tools for engendering engagement and ownership as the effective drivers of all sustainable shifts in business performance.
• With employment of these tools we see successful outcomes levering from similar underlying principals of implementation