Guide organisations and managers through change process

L&AD is your partner in change. During the past 25 years we gained expertise in accompanying organisations through change processes.

Why would a managing director or manager rely on professional assistance?

“We can handle it ourselves!” or “We just tell our people how to work from now on!” seems all too often no more than obvious.

About change

“Panta rhei”… everything flows, is constantly moving. Supposedly a quote from Heraclitus. It applies more than ever to our present day organisations. Changes succeed each other faster and faster. Sometimes they are very radical, (mergers, takeovers, restructuring, reorganisations, …) sometimes misleadingly innocent (new boss, new informatics, different ways of working, moving, teleworking, lean management,…).

We see that about 2/3 of the changes blatantly fail or at least require considerably more time than foreseen to reach the expected results. Although the direct and indirect economic cost – or social cost in the administration – cannot be calculated, it is probably huge.

The reason for this failure is almost always a flagrant neglect of the “Human Factor”. The impact on those who have to implement the change or are confronted with it, is grossly underestimated, even with seemingly minor changes.

L&AD ensures that your budgeted investment for the change is and remains under control.

How do we facilitate change?

As each and every organisation and change is different, we draft a tailor made project plan. We discuss it with you beforehand and check it regularly during the implementation. Please consult the page “approach” to learn more about it.

As L&AD only employs senior consultants, we work with all levels of your organisation, from the Board of Directors to the shop floor.

Our Approach


“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” [¹]

This inspiring quote from Abraham Maslow perfectly expresses our conviction.

L&AD believes that there is no such thing as ‘a’ perfect solution for complex problems in organisations. You wouldn’t want your plumber to solve the leak in your house with only a monkey wrench in his toolbox. That’s why you can’t simply ‘label’ our approach.

Of course we do use a certain number of models, concepts and tools that proved their strength and usefulness. We try to have as many insights as possible deployable when necessary. 

A TYPICAL L&AD PROJECT GOES AS FOLLOWS:

  • Through a thorough and deep going intake we fathom the main problem.
    1. What problem needs to be solved?
    2. What do you want to reach?
  • We make up a programme based upon the resources that you have at your disposition in the organisation. Essential parts of our proposal are:
    1. The selected tools and work forms
    2. The timing
    3. The objectives to be reached (in observable behaviour)
    4. The internal project leader (steering group)
    5. The time invested by both the Lead consultants and the internal collaborators
    6. Your investment
  • You take a decision based upon our proposal (after you discussed it and possibly asked for amendments)
    1. Implementation
    2. Depending upon the programme and its duration, intermediate progress reports and adjustments
    3. Assessment based on the agreed upon results
    4. Recommendations to ensure sustainability

KEY SUCCESS FACTORS OF YOUR CHANGE PROCESS

L&AD wants to commit in organisational objectives and results. That’s the reason why we will never accept an isolated mission, even if it falls under our expertise. We want to be able to ensure the sustainability of the results, even if you can do the same with the people and means of your organisation.

A concrete example to illustrate this: We will be pleased to set up a leadership programme if:

  • We can talk about how leadership will get support in practice
  • Possible obstacles are tackled

¹Abraham H. Maslow (1966). The Psychology of Science. p. 15.

THE ASSOCIATES

Rudi Baert

Rudi Baert started his career in one of the main Belgian Banks and gradually worked his way up. Next to commercial activities he gradually built up a solid experience in HR training and consulting both in the bank and outside. In 1997 he started with Learning & Asset Development (L&AD) because of his very basic yet refreshing belief that what makes us human is far from being a weakness. On the contrary, it is our greatest strength and asset!

Nicolas Delebois

Nicolas Delebois is a multifaceted HR professional with broad expertise in Human Resources in general and compensation & benefit, organisational development & staffing, more specifically training, guidance and coaching. For several years, he occupied a range of HR functions in important Belgian and international companies, until he decided in 2003 to put his experience and expertise at service of organisations as L&AD consultant and trainer and since the end of 2009 also as business Partner.

THE CONSULTANTS

WE HAVE A NETWORK OF CONSULTANTS WHO, THOUGH VERY DIFFERENT INDIVIDUALLY AND COMING FROM HIGHLY VARIED WALKS OF LIFE, ALL HAVE A NUMBER OF VITAL POINTS IN COMMON.

Management experience

Each and every one of the trainer-consultants working within L&AD has at one stage of their life run a business or held a strategic position in an organisation. This means that far from being ivory-tower theoreticians, they are hardened, well-experienced practitioners.

Commitment

They are committed to seeing their clients’ projects through to the end.

Coaching, rather than training

Stimulate behaviour change and thus create the necessary structure and organisational context takes priority over training. Training is nothing more than a means.

General practitioners rather than specialists

Indeed, drawing from a varied reserve of hands-on experience, the L&AD team sees itself as general practitioners rather than specialists. They will audit each situation carefully before proposing a solution, instead of going in with preconceived ideas and theories.

Learning must be fun

Having said all this, one other remarkable trait of the L&AD team is certainly worth mentioning is the fact that they all believe that hard and serious work can be done while having fun! Indeed, they take their cue from children who, all over the world, manage to learn and absorb new things continuously in a natural and playful way.

Partnerships & Memberships

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Nicolas Delebois

Rudi Baert

Zakaria Marzouki

Anne Stouffs

Contact Details

LEARNING & ASSET DEVELOPMENT BV

Postbus 89

B – 3090 OVERIJSE

Phone : 02 306 67 66

E-mail: info@lead.be

Business number : 0462 308 235

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