A positive journey through crisis
THE BUSINESS
Re-launch of
Avivas Asset
Management Company
Aim to be a
billion(s) company
Widespread acquisition
Worldwide financial
collapse two weeks after
launch:
1/3 wiped off value
of company
Individuals journeyed
through the crisis together
as one team
Built back up
self-belief and self-
confidence of individuals
We had very stretching goals, with the
economy plummeting, there was no hope
of getting anywhere near them.
THE CHALLENGE THE SOLUTION
UNITE LEADERSHIP
Unite a relatively new Executive team
and maintain motivation
while in crisis situation
Deep conversations:
individual coaching of
executive team
MAINTAIN SELF-BELIEF
Maintain self-belief and self-worth
of individuals in Executive Team
Address issues
collectively: Relume
facilitating Board meetings
to coach team as a whole
EMBED VALUES AND
BEHAVIOURS
Ensure that vallues and behaviours were
being lived throughout the organisation.
THE RESULTS
Board members able to Board members Provision of a safe haven
approach issues encouraged to and safety value for team
differently think about things in time of crisis
differently
Improved Executive Team Helped individuals Less pain and damage to
working relationships cope with change individuals and team as
and not view it as failure Relume was
there to support
THE QUOTES
We had done a self-diagnosis and I felt that I personally, and the company,
realised that our own perception of us went on a journey with Relume one of
as a team was that we were becoming self-exploration and discovery which led
fractured and unable to make clear to greater level of understanding and
choices. We needed to be decisive personal growth. This equipped us not
and united in order to be able to move just with tools to deal with challenges for
forward. There was clear recognition that the business then, but for life
we needed to change and we needed
support to do so.
Nigel Clemson, former HR Director, Aviva Investors