About OPC ~ creating involvement

OPC International Group ("OPC") was established by the Swedish consultants Bengt-Arne Svennberg and Kent Fälth Their unique process has been used to secure high levels of employee engagement through enhanced internal communication by some of the world’s leading organisations They have over 25 years experience of creating self directed learning activities for educational and business purposes They are used to working with large groups from all types of industries, government organisations and countries

Why the Optimal Process of Communication delivers high levels of employee engagement

The OPC Process^® works because it is a democratic internal communication methodology; a genuine attempt to connect with each individual in your organisation that demonstrates respect for what the listener thinks and what he or she has to say.

As management, you want your new policy, vision, or new approach to be accepted and established within your organisation. You want everyone to share your ambitions. You have something strategically important to say and you want your message to be understood and accepted by every individual.

With OPC your ideas - however complex - are laid out in a simple, visual and engaging format that gets people involved, inspired and behaving differently. This provides you with an internal communication tool that ensures a consistent message while stimulating dialogue, enabling self discovery and provided the means to keep the ball rolling.

Every individual is given the opportunity to reflect upon the building blocks of your new thinking forming their own views and insights through ground-breaking discussions at an event that is as relaxed as a coffee break yet as stimulating as an innovation greenhouse.

Those that need to understand and absorb your key message do most of the work. Not senior management and definitely not outside consultants.

The OPC Process^® enables you to deliver a message and engage many people simultaneously, more quickly and more effectively than ever before. When you engage people through this Optimal Process of Communication, something is born in your peoples' hearts and minds that can be nourished and developed.

Why this approach is different

It starts with a clearly defined process, but a clean sheet of paper because apart from our unique communication process because apart from our unique communication process everything we do is based on you, your organisation, your issues and your objectives:

The Optimal Process of Communication:

• Breaks even a complex message down into clear straight forward building blocks
• Gives you and your whole organization clarity on the key components of your message
• Ensures your organization learns and calibrates the meaning behind the message so that everyone understands your thinking

With OPC the success of your internal communications events is no longer dependent on a few senior managers or expensive outside consultants:

• Your people take ownership of the message from the very beginning
• Those who need to learn the most do most of the work through intense ground-breaking discussions and learning activities
• Your unique OPC events are hosted - not facilitated or led - by your own people

Your message doesn’t get diluted and the meaning of your message doesn’t get lost:

• The unique printed storyboard format ensures a consistent message for everyone, every time
• The self-directed learning approach ensures your message is explored throughout your organisation in the same way whatever language it is written in
• The communication process is pull style influencing not push
• You have control of the message from the bottom to the top of your organisation

Your communications events become fun and exciting:

• Your small group mass meetings are as relaxed as a coffee break yet become an incubator for intense discussions and thinking
• Your events are completed in less than four hours
• You can deliver your message quickly even to a global organisation of 100,000 people and expect rapid consistent deployment across the entire enterprise.

The self directed learning activities are designed to stimulate self discovery rather than tell:

• The influencing process is pull not push
• Your employees are allowed the space to think and talk things through with peers in a controlled environment
• Everyone gets treated with respect ~ all this means your people think and write out that thinking, which the OPC process puts into a usable format giving you a direct line to your people’s thinking
• You’ll get valuable feedback from your employees as they take on your message because the unique OPC worksheet layout makes collecting their input simple