Mission Integration Technologies

The Theory of Missions™ is a registered trademark of Organizational Analysis Corporation.

In addition to understanding the mission's baseline structure, a mission integration process can bring about the cohesion or synergy the mission needs to maintain maximum performance while adjusting to changes in market conditions. The ultimate output of this process is a mission organized so that it is flexible enough to adjust to changes in its environment, and whose participants are motivated to advance mission's goals towards successful accomplishments.

Having each employee understand his connection to the whole bonds the humanistic structure needed to hold the mission in place. Evidence of this type of bonding can be observed through the performance of Olympic teams. As one might expect, the level of bonding is often a determining factor for the winning team.

Helping people understand their connection to the macro mission is an important objective. The ZENbyOAC - Mission Integration Process provides the framework through which this process can be effectively and efficiently accomplished.

Benefits

After having worked with missions for many years, we have concluded that mission integration is of paramount importance to both the long- and short-term success of a mission. The beauty is that this relatively straight-forward process produces profound results. We have found that most people who work in the same mission type for a long time tend to associate with that mission type at an identity level. This is both good and bad. It is good in that it indicates that the person has internalized the work he performs to that extent that it has become a significant part of his personality. The downside is that, too often, groups of people who work together tend to associate with those in their most immediate work setting. In doing so, they rarely associate with the remainder of the mission's structure. Depending upon where the position sits in the organization, the person's influence in and exposure to other levels and work areas may be so remote that he is unable to associate with them. Even in settings where cross-functional teams are employed, highly complex work, such as that performed in a nuclear mission, calls for people with highly specialized skills to perform certain duties. We've seem teams like this work together for years without understanding the mission of the person next to him because of the degree of specialty required to perform the work. The ZENbyOAC - Mission Integration Process provides an opportunity for people at all levels to make connections with other parts of the mission, both vertically and horizontally.

Approach

We use a top down approach. Since the process is initiated with the management team, we can accomplish the first objective through one of two options.

The first option is to provide the management team with a three-day ZENbyOAC - Defining Missions Seminar. This seminar is a comprehensive interactive process that brings executive management up to speed on the latest techniques for defining missions. This program is not for the faint hearted. It is not 'touchy - feely'. It is a crash course in a few of the upper level dynamics needed to keep your mission on course. The true value of this course is that its effects compound daily as you learn to apply its universal theories in the workplace and in the world at large. The output of this effort is an in-depth introduction to mission theory, insight into what the overall mission integration program can achieve, new management skills, and statements of intent for each member of the management team.

The second option is to provide a preview of the three to four hour workshop, the ZENbyOAC - Mission Integration Process, to the management staff. The remainder of the organization will undergo this same process.

Once the management team has been through either of the above options, we can begin working with the remaining levels of the organization. In general, we can work with a maximum of 30 people per group, given that two instructors are available to instruct the class. Each class should take three to four hours. To accommodate 2,000 people depending upon their availability, we would need to run approximately 70 to 80 sessions. The OAC staff would conduct the sessions most probably in the morning and then use the three to four hours in the afternoon to clean up the statements of intent and circulate them back to the employees for their review. OAC could be in and out of the organization in about four months.

Program Layout

ZENbyOAC - Mission Integration Process is designed to promote the use of ZENbyOAC technologies through the process of lecture and participation. To accomplish this goal, the program incorporates a mixture of lecture, example, exercise, and discussion designed to promote a learning experience that is both enjoyable and meaningful.

Accomplishing learning objectives are central to this process. Verification that learning objectives have been achieved is conducted through observation of class participants. Since this course includes no 'testing', the instructor and his or her aids are expected to monitor the class using calibration techniques acquired during instructor training. When it is obvious that learning has not occurred, the instructor is responsible for assuring that additional assistance is provided.

Teaching Objectives are defined for each section of the program. Instructors are responsible for assuring that these objectives are properly identified and clearly communicated.

The seminar is initiated with a formal introduction of the instructors. In most case, it will be co-taught with the introduction initiated pursuant to the following procedure:

Output - Soft Copy

Introductory Education in the field of Mission Theory and Application for Management and Staff
An Upgrade in Management and Leadership Skills
An Analysis of the Mission's Dynamic Structure,
Identification of Critical and Sub-Critical Functions
A Critique of Current Organizational Strategy and Mission Design
The Neurological Integration of the Mission Structure Horizontally, and Vertically throughout the Mission

Output - Hard Copy

Flow Charts Characterizing Critical Intersections in the Mission Structure
A Single Large Chart Representing the Dissemination of the Critical Functions
Individual Statements of Intent, for Management and Employee Use
A Manual Containing Statements of Intent and Reflecting How Missions Connect

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