Leading with culture
workplace culture
& behaviour
performance
goals & standards
wellbeing
CULTURE 360 ASSESSMENT
Explore ratings in:
- Personal safety and engagement potential
- Collective vs individual orientation
- Performance vs non-performance orientation
- Focus on people & feelings vs tasks and facts
- Workgroup identity and effectiveness
Go beyond the superficial to gain deep understandings of why team attitudes and performance are as they are
TRAINING
Culture is ultimately shaped by the will and actions of those with the greatest power, individually or collectively.
Learn
- Work culture’s sources of power and influence
- Why workplace culture is compellingly powerful
- The predictors of compatibility, or not
- The mechanisms by which culture is spread and changed
- How to shape and lead your ideal workplace culture
Defining, regulating and optimising a preferred group culture is a core leadership skill.
A 360 VIEW
Understanding & influencing culture involves understanding and adjusting levers of influence on beliefs, attitudes and behaviour. If a leader doesn’t shape and manage group culture, someone else will.
DNA-PROGRAMMED TO FIT IN OR LEAD
Culture is driven by the basic human need for IDENTITY. This essential social drive is programmed into our DNA and shaped by our experiences and beliefs.
As a social species, we feel compelled to fit in with the people around us.
As a hierarchical species, we are most influenced by those with power, formal or informal, direct or indirect, felt or witnessed.
As a vulnerable species, we are drawn to those who provide safety & certainty.
As a learn-by-watching species, we seek and copy role models
THE KEY WORKGROUP SETTING
Workplace culture is arguably the greatest influence on:
- What gets done and how well it gets done.
- The reputation of the manager, the team and the organisation.
- Employee attraction, engagement and retention.
- Common behavioural and performance patterns
- Everything else
A strong work culture allows the group to monitor and manage their own performance and behaviour. It shapes every aspect of work experiences and outcomes, personally and professionally.
