Culture Strategy Fit

CSFsurveys at a glance

Culture Snapshot

Purpose: Establish a culture baseline; gain broad and deep insight into the dynamics of your culture and implications for your strategy

• Pre-designed or custom culture surveys based on strategy or work context

• +/-20 patterns are assessed establishing a broad baseline of overall culture strengths and opportunity areas

• 40-50 item statements; 2-4 open-ended questions

• 10-15 minutes to complete

• Interpretation of culture patterns and their dynamics

• Review of leadership style and its alignment

• Priority areas for attention

• Recommendations

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Culture Pulse

Purpose: To examine the way specific culture patterns are operating to support specific goals or outcomes; assess change over time

• Pre-designed culture surveys focus on specific outcomes or you can build your own culture survey from over 30 culture patterns known to deliver specific outcomes

• +/-10 culture patterns are assessed; 2-4 open-ended questions

• 10-15 minutes to complete

• Analysis of each culture pattern with scorecard rating and rationale

• Culture Pulse Plus report includes thematic analysis of open-ended responses and findings

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Culture Check

Purpose: Explore a culture alignment area such as Getting Results, Working Together, Helping Others, Making Ideas Happen, Ready for Change, Clients First etc.; engage leaders and their groups in monitoring the culture they are creating

• Quick check surveys of top 5 culture patterns for important areas of culture alignment

• 2 open-ended questions

• Assesses 5 patterns; 20 statements

• 5-6 minutes to complete

• Scorecard rating and rationale

• Set of questions at end of report for exploring the results for a group to work through

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Culture-Strategy Fit Profile

Purpose: Broad and deep exploration of culture strengths and opportunity areas; culture-strategy-brand alignment issues

• An in-depth assessment to uncover means to use culture as a competitive edge

• Links culture-brand-strategy to develop a comprehensive plan of action

• Culture Snapshot survey

• Other culture assessment methods such as observation, practice deconstruction, values and beliefs exploration

• Other brand delivery assessment methods (optional)

• Other alignment assessment methods such as the Strategic Alignment Snapshot which assesses executive team alignment to specific elements of strategy

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Intergenerational Snapshot

Purpose: Separate generational myths from reality; identify tension areas in the way the culture operates and opportunity areas and recommends what to do about them; build awareness of similarities and difference

• An in-depth assessment of culture patterns from the view of each of four generations

• 40-50 item statements; 2-4 open-ended questions

• 10-15 minutes to complete

• Interpretation of culture patterns and how each generation experiences them

• Review of leadership style and its alignment to generational differences (optional)

• Priority areas for attention and recommendations

• Data can be re-analyzed from any of the Culture-Strategy Fit surveys

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Culture Snapshot for M&A

Purpose: Proactively identify and address areas of cultural synergy and tension when organizations are amalgamating

• 12 areas of potential culture alignment or clash examined

• Detailed comparison of the way these culture patterns are operating

• 50 item statement culture survey; 2-4 open-ended questions (can be customized)

• 10-15 minute to complete

• Recommends priority areas for attention

• Provides practical recommendations for integration planning

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