culturesnapshot
Zoom in on Culture!
The Culture Snapshot is an organizational culture survey that provides information for group action. It helps leaders understand culture patterns and dynamics and how they are working to support or get in the way of future success. The Culture Snapshot helps identify culture strengths and the way they can be used for advantage, as well as opportunity areas that need attention. Importantly, it builds shared understanding of the way culture strengths can be built upon and shaped to meet future challenges.
Identify your organization's culture levers
Organizations today are faced with complex and difficult challenges that range from globalization, economic downturn, shifting commodity costs, talent shortages and more. Industry and sector leaders who want to meet these challenges need to shape culture levers to support strategic direction and, at the same time, address areas of culture 'drag' that are getting in the way of performance. They need to rapidly identify key levers for taking the organization to the next level of performance and culture is one of these levers.
Gain a performance edge
For far-sighted, adaptive organizations in highly competitive industries, a culture survey will support gaining competitive advantage, delivery of new strategies, realization of brand promise and breakthroughs to new levels of performance.
For organizations experiencing culture 'drag' now, a culture survey will focus leader attention on the critical few aspects of culture with the most potential to address impediments to delivery of goals. This builds leadership cohesion around priority actions to lift results and drive performance gains.
Gain deep insights
The Culture Snapshot™ reveals deep insights about:
· Strength of core culture patterns such as trust and knowledge sharing that lay the foundation for powerful strategic culture patterns such as collaboration, consultation, responsiveness, idea sharing, putting ideas into action and so on
· Culture pattern strengths and how these can be developed to accelerate strategy and their downside managed
· Culture pattern weaknesses and where to start to address gaps
· Areas of culture drag that will impact employee productivity, retention and engagement
· Areas of culture tension and synergy during mergers and acquisitions or multi-party work
· Priority areas for attention for cohesive action to affect systemic change
Finally, possibly the best part of the Culture Snapshot is that it provides a voice to everyone in the organization. It eliminates blind spots and guess work, thereby reducing costs by targeting the specific aspects of culture that most need attention.
Features
The Culture Snapshot starts with a quick web-enabled survey that results in the creation of images of culture, much like a camera snapshot captures a group photo. It is customized to assess the strength of culture patterns important to your organization's future focus.
· Rapidly activated, web-enabled, confidential survey available 24/7
· +/-40 item statements plus open-ended questions, takes about 10 minutes to complete
· Assesses +/- 20 culture patterns
· Quickly customized to your specific strategy, values or work context
· A culture pattern "scorecard" that indicates culture strengths and areas for attention (red, yellow, green indicators)
· Expert analysis of culture pattern dynamics by culture experts lends objectivity and builds credibility
· Report formats that build the story of the culture, ready for use in workshops and executive team debriefs
· Priority areas for attention and recommendations included
Applications
Use the Culture Snapshot to establish a culture feedback system that will help leaders and their groups proactively shape the culture they need to adapt to the future and to build the conditions for high performance of every generational group.
· Encourage appreciation of culture strengths and how they operate - build group spirit and pride
· Rapidly focus groups on culture pattern weaknesses - establish ownership for behaviors and beliefs impacting success
· Build group cohesion around culture change priorities - create shared intent to create a culture by design, not by default
· Provide a means to baseline the current culture - assess change over time
· Use objective culture assessment for deep insights - what's needed to get to the next level of performance
· Manage risks - spot sub-cultures where norms of behavior are misaligned
· Enhance group productivity, retention and motivation - minimize areas of culture drag
View A Demo
The Culture Snapshot Demo provides you with an opportunity to try a Culture Snapshot survey. Use CSFALPHA as the survey code.
“If you don’t understand the culture of the company, even your most brilliant strategies will fail. Your vision will be resisted, plans won’t get executed properly, and all kinds of things will start going wrong.”
Isadore Sharp, Chairman and CEO, Four Seasons Hotels
