Culture Transformation through Values
VALUES = BEHAVIOR = CULTURE
A Thriving Company Culture Drives Sustainable Success
Despite overwhelming agreement among leaders that culture is important, many admit they don’t know how to make the most of this essential asset to their organization.
Just like other performance targets, measuring culture allows leaders to manage it. The right leading indicators remove the guesswork in forging a targeted path towards creating a thriving and sustainable culture. For example, understanding perspectives on the current state while soliciting the desired future state gives leaders a goalpost to effectively align organizational and individual values towards.
What Truly Matters
Understanding what motivates your people to stay passionately engaged
Diagnosing what’s working well within the organization and identifying where improvement is needed
Cultivating an actionable roadmap to align efforts towards higher performance
Why Values?
The culture of an organization is a reflection of the values, beliefs and behaviors of the people who sustain it. Our values are what drive behaviors - explaining why people make the decisions they make and the action they take. Values reveal people’s motivations and provide insight into what is most important to a person or a collective. They uncover the code by which a group operates, surfacing opportunities to clarify behavioral expectations and align on leadership action needed.
Your Organization, Thriving
Cultural transformation begins with supporting personal transformation. Cultural capital may be the cornerstone of creating a competitive advantage as who you are and what you stand for are just as important as the quality of the products and services that you bring to the marketplace.
Measurement Matters!
But how do you make the intangible tangible? Collecting and analyzing powerful metrics that enable leaders to actively measure and manage culture is critical. Assessing an organization’s culture makes it possible to translate qualitative data into quantitative information. With a baseline measurement, monitoring the impact of ongoing organizational changes becomes possible and creates a method for describing and discussing cultural capital.
Developing Your Culture
Conduct a culture assessment
Share the results and start talking
Prioritize key values
Explore the behaviors, stories and hopes behind each key value
Create a cultural development plan
Live the values and grow the desired culture