Cultural Assessment And Design
Align your corporate culture with strategic objectives
The pace of the today’s business environments requires rapid change strategies. Only those organizations that can adapt quickly will survive. The secret to a company’s ability to manage change rests in its foundation of core values, adaptability of behavioural practices, secondary values, structures and other cultural factors.
As an organization begins to assess its ability to respond to change, aligning its culture with its strategic goals is imperative. Making organizational changes in practices or values, understanding your culture in an objective manner can give you a business advantage.
BENEFITS OF CULTURAL ASSESSMENT
Having an objective assessment instrument, such as Alignment Strategies Cultural Assessment Measurement Tool, can provide a realistic view of your existing culture. Executives require an analytical and quantitative assessment to deliver a message. This may be the key to getting management to pay attention and face the reality of what type of culture really exists. Understanding and assessing your organization's culture can mean the difference between success and failure in today's fast changing business environment.
Cultural assessments can:
- Provide measurable data about real organizational values and norms
- Dispel any of management's illusions about what really matters in the organization
- Identify how far off the mark things really are/li>
Culture drives the organization and its actions. It is somewhat like "the operating system" of the organization. It guides how employees think, act and feel. It is never static. One of the critical factors in understanding a corporate culture is the degree to which it is leader-dependent.
WHY ASSESS YOUR CULTURE?
An organization that wants to maximize its ability to attain its strategic objectives must understand if the current culture supports and drives the actions necessary to achieve its strategic goals. Cultural assessments can enable the organization to analyze the gap between the current and required culture. Taking a realistic look at the gaps is vital information that is used to design initiatives to bring specific elements of culture into line. If your competitive environment is changing rapidly, your organizational culture may also need to change. An objective assessment tool can focus on the limited number of elements of culture that need to change, rather than embarking on the futile attempt to change the entire culture.
Alignment Strategies provides a validated Cultural Assessment Measurement Tool to assess the cultural dimensions impacting your organization. The assessment results are presented during a one-day workshop where the implications are reviewed with management in order to launch the proper initiatives in support of the strategic direction and are incorporated into the Execution Plan.
