About Sigmoid

Your journey in life – the story of your life – can be told using the metaphor of the sigmoid curve.

The sigmoid curve is derived from the sigmoid function, an algebraic formula that shows how every growth curve will eventually plateau unless you interrupt its cycle.

The paradox for us in business is that the optimal time to interrupt a growth curve is before it reaches its peak.  This is difficult because we find it counterintuitive to change something when it seems to be working perfectly fine.

However, the ability to anticipate change and make it happen before performance begins to drop off is the key to maintaining momentum in our personal lives, our teams and our organisations.

The basic premise behind the sigmoid curve is that nothing grows forever in its current structure.  Structure in this case is defined as a set of assumptions.  We base all changes, whether in our personal lives or in an organisation, on certain assumptions.

Assumptions that are relevant for big changes we make in our business today tend to have a lifespan of approximately 18 months before they’re rendered precarious or invalid.  Believe it or not, the cycles of change are compressing into even shorter periods over the years to come. 

This means that we should try to build capability in ourselves and our teams to anticipate the future and to be ready to proactively lead incremental changes that are necessary to maintain momentum with our business models.

Sigmoid Services

•     Strategies and Tools to:

>    Lead Organisations through Significant Change
>    Engage and Retain Employees
>    Build Learning Teams and Learning Organisations

•     Talent Management & Development Strategies
  >    Executive & High Potential Assessment
  >    Best Practice Approaches to Differentiate and Develop Talent

•     Human Resource Strategies
  >    HR Capability Assessment & Development
  >    Specialising in Coaching HR Professionals

• Human Resource Search
  >    Leveraging Sigmoid's Extensive Network in NZ and Australasia

• Executive Coaching

  >    Extensive experience coaching Chief Executives, Senior Executives and Executive Teams

• Accelerating Executive Presence (www.acceleratingep.com)

• Customised Leadership Development Programmes

• Speaking Engagements for Conferences and Special Topic Forums