Check the Health of Your Culture
Understand what it is in your corporate culture that can enable, or hinder mission success, a thriving workplace, and responsible impact.
Are you groping in the dark about where to start the work of strengthening your corporate culture?
Most managers today have a lot of quantitative data on employee experience and commitment through temperature measurements and employee surveys, in addition to data on customer satisfaction, efficiency, and typical KPIs.
However, when you need to diagnose and understand the state of your corporate culture in-depth, in order to change or strengthen it, measurement points and quantitative data are not enough.
A study by Gartner (published in the Harvard Business Review), on why cultural change so often fails, shows that two of the three main reasons are a lack of unfiltered feedback and a too simplistic picture of one's corporate culture.
To understand your culture, you need qualitative, unfiltered data and a way of interpreting the data that creates real insight, forming the basis for well-directed efforts to strengthen or change the corporate culture.
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Get support in creating an in-depth analysis of corporate culture that lays the foundation for successful change work and builds engagement in the organization for the desired change.
In his book, The Insider's Guide to Culture Change, author and global HR leader, Siobhan McHale, uses dance as a metaphor for culture.
Too often we focus only on the movements (behaviors) of individual dancers but miss the patterns we have created and the different roles we have in maintaining these behaviors.
A culture analysis helps you understand what this dance looks like in your organization. What behaviors and thought patterns enable sustainable success and what can hinder it. It also contains an analysis of what has led to the behavioral patterns you see and what roles and unspoken agreements maintain them.
A culture analysis helps you understand what this dance looks like in your organization. What behaviors and thought patterns enable sustainable success and what can hinder it. It also contains an analysis of what has led to the behavioral patterns you see and what roles and unspoken agreements maintain them.
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7 BENEFITS OF A CULTURE ANALYSIS
- A deep understanding of your corporate culture as a foundation for choosing to focus on the most important points of change or improvement.
- Insight into the strengths of your corporate culture that create the conditions for future success.
- Insight into potential weaknesses in your corporate culture that may hinder success or negatively affect the workplace.
- By listening to the organization and working strategically with what is revealed, you build trust internally.
- Knowledge of the values that live in the business today as support for identifying or implementing values that can become real.
- When managers and employees receive feedback on the survey, it builds engagement and understanding of one’s own role in creating a healthy culture.
- Using an external party to carry out the cultural analysis can contribute to greater credibility and the opportunity to highlight patterns that are difficult for someone to address internally.
