Leadership & Culture
Building cohesion and capability
To ignite and diffuse behavior change, leaders need clear frameworks for action that build insights and cohesion across groups of leaders and also practical tools to turn intention into action. They need new kinds of tools for coaching and development so they can play their role as catalysts for culture by design.
We bring innovative thinking and an array of tools to support your leaders and their groups in their culture alignment journey.
Talent Management
Frequently leaders and their groups need help connecting the dots between strategy, values, culture and competencies, and in particular identifying the behavioral drivers that will shape organizational DNA. We help organizations describe their core values in behavioral terms and define the competencies needed for the future. We help you identify the values drivers – the behaviors that make core values come to life, as well as the behavioral drivers that need to be part of competency models and selection tools to shape culture by design. Learn more about approaches for aligning culture and talent management..
360° Survey
Leaders operate through personal, team and organizational leadership. Their role is not just about managing people; it is also about shaping the organizational system as a whole to create the kind of cultural capabilities needed for the future. The Leading Culture Snapshot™ examines 11 dimensions of leader behavior from a culture and systems point of view including dimensions such as agility, collaboration, direction, discipline, engagement, learning, openness, performance, risk and trust. It provides leaders with profound insights into the way their behaviors are being experienced by others and how these behaviors impact the culture and performance. Learn more about leaders and culture 360 surveys...
To help leaders expand their repertoire of behaviors and practices in the 10 cultural dimensions most critical to creating and maintaining a strong foundation culture, we have created the Leading Culture Handbook™. Used alone or with the Leading Culture Snapshot, it is a new kind of development and coaching guide. It provides examples of effective leader behaviors for each dimension and, uniquely, the social, managing, operating and learning practices that these behaviors can become part of. It also includes a set of action strategies to get started. This is not intended to be prescriptive, but illustrative of a variety of highly effective ways to apply behaviors, as individuals and as teams of leaders, to develop a vibrant and agile culture.
Culture Workshops
Building a leadership cadre that understands their role as organizational leaders, what culture is needed for the future, how they impact it now and how to shift it is a powerful way to shape culture by design. Influencing group norms and beliefs is difficult work that few leaders are prepared for. Our workshops are designed for executive teams, mid-level managers and front-line managers who are the catalysts of culture change. Learn more about our modular culture workshops.
“We found that firms with cultures that emphasized all the key managerial constituencies (customers, stockholders, and employees) and leadership from managers at all levels outperformed firms that did not have those cultural traits by a huge margin." John Kotter & James Heskett, Harvard Business School, Corporate Culture and Performance
