Process

Phase 1 - Gaining Insights

In a first step we work with our client to understand and describe which type of culture would be most in line with the organization’s goals and fundamental strategy.

In one-on-one or group interviews we gain further insights from all relevant stakeholders (e.g. customers, employees, shareholders) to reveal gaps between ideal and perceived culture.

The diagnostics serve as a platform for an intensive and candid discussion with the client’s leadership team driving the transformation process. The objective of this discussion is to identify those patterns in the organization’s communication and interaction that support or undermine long-term performance.

Phase 2 - Senior Team Engagement

We closely work with the senior leaders and coach them towards a robust alignment and unanimous commitment to build and shape a performance-orientated culture. This is usually an intensive process, as teams have to overcome their own barriers and ambiguities that need to be addressed for their members to be credible and effective in leading a broad based culture transformation process. Our interventions help the senior team to:

• Embrace the concept of culture driving long-term results
• Strengthen mutual openness and trust
• Challenge the existing barriers inhibiting culture change
• Establish a strong alignment among senior leaders
• Make decisions on the direction to go

Phase 3 - Activation

A culture initiative emanating from the senior leadership team is destined to win the hearts and minds of others and to effectively trigger broad based change in the entire organization. To achieve this we provide support by designing and implementing a staggered communication that helps to permeate the messages around culture change throughout the entire organization. The objective is to stimulate an active dialogue among a wide range of employees as well as to motivate them to promote the initiative to their respective teams.

Within learning-workshops, designed to the specific needs of the client, we aim at the organization’s Change Champions to make them:

• Understand the underlying values and desired behaviors underpinning the future culture
• Discuss and practice context-specific behaviors in order to integrate these into their day-to-day life
• Learn how to model values through behaviors and how to cascade them through the organization
• Embrace accountability for the organization’s culture change

As far as the communication to the organization’s relevant stakeholders is concerned we support our clients in conceptualizing, developing, planning and implementing all the respective activities.