Cultural Change

Cultural Change
Your organisation's culture will determine the extent to which employees are inspired to achieve  your strategic goals.

An organisation's culture is often described as "the way we do things here". It is a combination of deeply felt values, beliefs and attitudes about how the work of the organisation 'should' be done. Cultures are acquired during periods of success, and employees see the culture as the reason for that success. However, the real reasons for success are more likely to relate to the organisation's markets and the relevance of its competencies.

As long as these 'real reasons for success' remain the same, the culture effectively controls behaviour, minimising the need for rules or discipline. When they change, the culture becomes dysfunctional by continuing to reinforce behaviour that is no longer appropriate. Cultural Change is not achieved by simply developing skills and knowledge. Different strategies are required: Symbolic management, transformational leadership, and true empowerment.

Change & Perform can assist you with Cultural Change by:
1. Coaching executives and managers in the behaviours used by Transformational Leaders to lead cultural change
2. Identifying and measuring cultural beliefs, values and attitudes that are driving organisational behaviour
3. Changing these beliefs, values and attitudes by engendering acceptance of the new needs of the organisation and the appropriateness of new behaviour

Typical Assignments

  • Identification of cultural values and attitudes that were driving dysfunctional behaviour amongst a large group of employees spread across several departments. (Data was gathered by a combination of interviews and questionnaires) Design of strategies and actions for changing these values and attitudes.

·         Executive coaching in strategies needed to lead cultural change in a public sector organisation that is now required to compete effectively with the private sector.

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