Organizational Culture

Your culture will determine whether your organization builds on past successes or implodes in the face of adversity.

A high-performance culture is critical for building employee commitment and enthusiasm, acting with speed and flexibility and driving and sustaining growth.

It is characterized by:

• A clear, compelling, communicated corporate purpose to shape business decisions, generate customer loyalty and inspire employee passion and maximum contribution
• Shared organizational values that guide people as well as influence business practices and decisions as the organization delivers on its promises to all its constituents
• An environment that encourages individual ownership of both the organization’s bottom-line results and its cultural foundation.

How We Can Help

Our experienced consultants can meet you where you are - whether you are trying to radically redefine your culture, leverage your existing culture to survive these tumultous times, sustain the cultural underpinnings that have brought unprecedented success or fall somewhere in between.

As appropriate, we’ll determine a custom strategy and provide tools for:

• Diagnosing and measuring your culture’s strengths and weaknesses - and determine how it needs to change…
• Ensuring your senior team shares a clear purpose, defined organizational values and ambitious business strategy to shape your culture…
• Equipping leaders at all levels to communicate, model and inspire commitment to your strategic priorities and the values that drive a high-performance culture…
• Increasing the effectiveness of individual leaders as change agents through executive coaching…
• Helping all employees translate the organization’s values and business drivers into tangible day-to-day actions…
• Ensuring the alignment, productivity, engagement and retention of your workforce after a major change…

Related Links

Client Case Studies

Our Views on Organizational Values

"Driving Long-Term Engagement through a High-Performance Culture," a book chapter by Christopher Rice

"Follow the leader: Creating an engaging culture", an HR Zone article

Journal of Organizational Excellence: High Performance Cultures – How Values Can Drive Business Results

Common Pitfalls in Building a High-Performance Culture

BlessingWhite eNews: Want to Increase Performance? Look at Your Culture