The Audira Group

OUR OFFERS

Audira Listening Audit: Conducting in-depth interviews of key business leaders, the Audira Audit illuminates views on important business issues, strategic direction, key decisions, or anything that requires organizational alignment.  Interview comments are the raw data used to identify key themes, including perspectives on performance, opportunities and risks.    Led in the spirit of inquiry and affirmation, the interviews elicit candid feedback and forms a “collective talk” document which shares individual comments in a confidential and non-threatening way.  Using this approach, opinion groups can be identified and overlooked good ideas emerge.  

Integrated Insight Report: An analysis and interpretation of voice related issues, such as opinion group differences, functional perspectives, key relationships. position and tenure driven views, among others. Audira gives a third party perspective on organization issues based on over decades of experience in multiple industries.  The report also focuses on solutions and choices, to help you and your organization agree on key actions.

Corporate Leadership Systems: Effectiveness is based on the contributions of many and leadership occurs in the context of organizational communities. We focus on building individual leadership capability and also on the relationships that may the system work. We provide perspective on the unique value of corporate leadership and corporate roles.

Networks and referrals: Given our extensive background and networks in consulting, accounting and recruiting and other executive service firms, Audira offers recommendations on unique capabilities that support evolving organization goals.

Listen, learn, build

New York, NY
(646) 808-3028     talkto@audiragroup.com

OUR PHILOSOPHY

Audira Group derived its name from the Latin word Audire – to listen.  Listening is a critical need in organizations, and is often overlooked as a tool for building collective wisdom and common goals.   Billions of bytes of presentations and reports indicate a fulsome supply of outbound talk, but where is the time spent listening?  True, there are lots of listening-type tools – employee and customer surveys, interviewing processes, and now, one can even sum up tweets to listen in to the textversations people are having. 

Audira focuses on genuine listening – the kind of listening that understands the qualitative and contextual aspect of the insights and opinions, the predicates upon which those insights rest, the values that are connected to the views.  True, individual listening gets at these things.   Genuine listening has the power to change how the speaker sees his world and himself.  It focuses on the individual in a real-time way – on a journey for inquiry, discovery and illumination.

By spending  dedicated, one-on-one time in a  confidential conversation with a third party, executive participants must take time to think about, articulate and reflect on the important topics we are asking about.  Dedicated time, with an attentive and inquiring listener, enhances the quality and depth of personal reflection.  Further, it attunes participants to the opinions of others.  After the executive spends time thinking about the key issues, he or she becomes more interested in our report, in what others thought, in how their ideas compared with others, and generally, tunes in better to the collective thinking.

Individual listening taps into collective wisdom by collecting independent views prior to group discussion, avoiding problems of group think and social loafing (as all have to participate).  Further, it helps identify a productive discussion strategy, by understanding where energy lies.  The in-person meeting time can focused on areas that offer the most promise for progress, including myths to be dispelled, commonplace conclusions to be tested, or areas of divergence to be explored.  The interviews allow the group to spend its time wisely.  Finally, it builds shared sponsorship, as all have contributed their thoughts and shaped the output, the next horizon point is truly a joint product with many parents.  Shared sponsorship is a powerful underpinning for successful change.

This type of listening informs important business issues.  Scorecards, KPIs, heatmaps, and twitter summaries all build business understanding, but the ideas and perspectives in the minds of the people in the organization can be an equally powerful source for understanding  important business opportunities and risks.