Changing a Corporate Culture

Organizational culture has been identified as a key success factor in the competitive environment of a global economy.

We may not always be aware of it, but we all work within cultural frameworks that strongly influence the way we manage a company, relate to our fellow employees, get the work done and interact with our clients. Company culture – “the way we do things round here” – has a decisive impact on competitiveness and profitability.
 
Increasingly, companies are faced with the challenge of adapting their existing cultures to the changing need of the marketplace. There is little doubt that culture strongly affects the functioning of any organization. But there is still little awareness among managers about how to uncover, evaluate and improve that culture – so that it works to reinforce corporate strategy.

Main benefits of doing a Corporate Culture Audit:

• Understanding the values, mindsets and behaviours, which drive and/or hinder organizational performance
• Identification of cultural roadblocks to becoming a high performance organisation
• Making people understand why there is a need for cultural (behavioural) change and what each of them needs to do differently in the future
• Laying the ground work for designing development and training programmes to effect sustainable behavioural change throughout the organization

 
Our Organizational Culture Audit analyzes typical mindsets and behaviours at all (or specific) functional levels of a company. In addition it captures those cultural characteristics which will be needed in the future. A systematic gap analysis between what is and what should be yields enough information to define concrete action steps for a culture change programme.

To generate a realistic picture of where the organisation stands and what the future challenges will be, a Culture Audit should make sure to tap into all levels of the organisation.