The study of Celerant Consulting, conducted by INSEAD Professor of Organisational Behaviour Tom D’Aunno, also found that 91 per cent of clients surveyed would like to work with Celerant again.
“We see that there is interest in Celerant for repeat engagements, either because they want Celerant to perform their magic, if you will, in other parts of the company, or because they feel that they can still learn from the Celerant techniques.”
“To put it simply, it’s about relationship building,” D’Aunno says. “Did Celerant consultants take time to educate people in the client company? Did they try to motivate them to do their best? Did they also try to understand what was motivating individuals in the client company? Did they spend time understanding what it is that these individuals and teams of people were doing within the company? And did they help these individuals reach their full potential?”
It’s both under these conditions, D’Aunno says, and as a result of the strong relationships built, that client companies choose to work with Celerant again.
Using data to change behaviour
The Financial Times recently referred to Celerant as a consultancy that ‘focuses on operational transition, getting down to the nitty-gritty at all levels in a company and straightening out kinks in the linkages between top and bottom.’
D’Aunno notes two particular ways in which Celerant achieves this: “One of the things that Celerant is good at is helping to build teamwork within the client company which otherwise might be absent or at a low level.” Another is its ability to get managers in client companies to “use data to make decisions about how to improve their behaviour.”
D’Aunno found that clients identified several key factors contributing to the success of projects on which Celerant worked:
- The appropriate skill-sets of Celerant consultants
- The ability of Celerant consultants to mobilise key individuals within the client company to support the change
- Celerant’s ability to respect the client’s skills and involve the client as a partner in solving the problems identified
- Flexibility on Celerant’s part and the ability to make adjustments to its intervention, and ways of working with a client over the course of the project
- Celerant’s long-term planning for the client company to sustain results over time
D’Aunno says that not only does Celerant believe in the importance of focusing on organizational change, but also that “it’s to Celerant’s credit, that they deliver on these things, that they put these into practice and that the majority of clients are satisfied with the results that they deliver.”
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