Looking for ways to enable your employees to fully employ their talents and creativity? Participatory Action Research has proven to be an excellent approach to enable you and your employees to co-create a supportive working environment in which you can all thrive. By co-creating solutions with colleagues and managers, employees grow a sense of ownership which is supportive to get from plan to action. Furthermore, the PAR process helps managers to feel confident in providing more freedom and space for employees to excel.
Complexity is outgrowing business
Today’s business is becoming more and more challenging. Demands from customers are growing and competition is innovating at a rapid pace. Companies who are not able to adapt in this rapidly changing environment will lose.
Traditionally, most companies are organized in top-down hierarchies. These rigid structures worked excellent in a static environment, but are not able to adapt at a pace that is required by today’s business challenges.
Self organization
It is vital to fully tap into the talents and creativity of employees. They need a working environment that allows them to define by themselves how they execute their work. Self organization is a hot topic in this respect. But self organization often conflicts with traditional managerial habits. Often managers have difficulties with providing an environment in which this is possible.
Instrument of change
Participatory Action Research comes in as an effective instrument of change. Using PAR allows employees and managers to discover together how they can reorganize the work in a way that better suits demands. Since PAR addresses the interests of all stakeholders – employees and managers alike – co created solutions will provide all involved with a sense of comfort needed to make these solutions becoming a success.
Co-creating with customers
And PAR holds another promise. Customers can be included in the co-creation process. That allows customers to grow into co producers – often referred to as prosumers. Customers become an actor in the value creation process, giving way to completely new and promising business models.
Free virtual brainstorm
Are you curious to hear more about what SevenSenses can do specifically for you? Please don’t hesitate to contact us to arrange a free one-hour virtual brainstorm with us.
Facing barriers? Let us guide you!
Do you feel PAR is the right approach to tackle the sustainability challenges you are working on, but encounter barriers within your organization to execute PAR? For example, that the rigid structures of your organization hampers you from allowing stakeholders to participate? SevenSenses Institute has done extensive research into the barriers faced within organizations to implement PAR, and how these barriers can be overcome. Our PAR experts are happy to guide you in the process of bringing PAR to the table among decision makers or other authorities and taking away the threshold to implement PAR. Please don’t hesitate to contact us for a one-hour free advisory session! From there, we discuss how we can further guide you in this process.
