Is Workplace Culture
Holding Your Company Back?
Gain clarity and take action with a data-driven approach to lasting improvement
Uncover the Real Barriers to Success
Many organisations struggle with low employee engagement, high turnover, and plateaued productivity, which can be symptoms of a deeper cultural issue. Without a clear understanding of what’s driving these problems, efforts to improve can feel like guesswork.
In this book we explain how to measure your current organisational culture and how to design a new one.
Organisational Culture matters. It defines how pleasant (or unpleasant!) an organisation is to work for and ultimately affects its long-term success. But culture can change. Recognising that there are alternative ways of doing things is the first step toward meaningful change. This book provides comprehensive and practical advice for navigating this journey.
Change is possible. It isn’t always easy, but with the right foundation and a clear direction, amazing transformations can happen.
This book is designed as an essential guide for those seeking to examine and transform organisational culture. It’s a valuable resource for Senior Leaders and Culture Auditors.
Contents
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What is Organisational Culture and why is it important? We talk about their importance and impacts and introduce the Culture Audit as the first step along the journey of Culture Change.
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Here we look at more theoretical models of how to describe and classify culture in general terms. We introduce some technical terms used throughout the book and focus on the importance of core Values and more practical Behaviours in defining organisational culture.
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We offer practical advice on how to determine your desired culture. We look at the visionary process, how to define your core values and how to link these to desired behaviours.
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An audit is a significant and complex undertaking and it's important to realise you won't be able to measure everything in one go. Here we talk about setting goals, assembling your audit team and practical aspects such as resourcing.
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The two main methods for data collection are surveys and interviews. We discuss these in depth and introduce additional ways of learning about your organisational culture.
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Once you've got your data, you need to work out what it means about your culture. Here we look at quantitative and qualitative data analysis and how to build a picture of your culture.
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You need to present your findings to various stakeholders and make recommendations.
A culture audit is not a one-off activity, but part of the continuous cycle of change.
About the Author: Steve Cottee
Steve Cottee's passion is helping people. His background is in education for children with emotional and behavioural difficulties. He developed and ran a highly successful school outreach programme where he would develop plans for specific children but also optimise the running of entire schools. It was here that he developed and practiced his skills in culture audits and culture change, though he certainly didn’t call it that at the time.
Opportunities then took Steve through the management route to a head teacher role, but his real passion remained in helping individuals and organisations to thrive. Steve is now returning to his core passion by working as a culture change consultant to help organisations and individuals to thrive and grow.