Your Guide to Conducting a Baseline Culture Audit
Whether you have a healthy culture or are struggling with toxic behaviors — you must begin by surveying the culture to establish a clear starting point.
Whether you have a healthy culture or are struggling with toxic behaviors — you must begin by surveying the culture to establish a clear starting point.
Many organizations believe they’ve laid out clear culture expectations. Yet, if we were to point them to actual behaviors, we might uncover a different reality.
Leaders are looking to get the best out of individuals and teams, but to do so they must first get the best out of themselves.
CultureTalk Partner Reynaldo Naves and his associates at Olivia Global had a big assignment: transform the culture and create cultural consistency across multiple brands underneath Brazil’s largest fashion retailer in-step with operations integration and technological advancements. This was a successful company with a great reputation and wide reach. They had already found a winning formula, so it had to be asked “How do we move around the parts and pieces of this organization without breaking anything that works?” The intervention had to be deliberate and precise.
Culture can be measured. It can be grown. It can be sustained. Listen as culture development expert and certified CultureTalk Partner DJ Hurula and special guests Cynthia Forstmann and Theresa Agresta break down the Archetype survey system and examine each stage of a culture-related initiative.
Some areas of workplace culture, such as company policies, supervision, workplace conditions, job security, and even salary, are just like brushing your teeth. If these aspects are not up to par, employees will be dissatisfied; however, improvement of these factors is not what creates a feeling of satisfaction with one’s job.
“We see teams having conversations in a new way, using the Archetypes to describe what’s working, what’s not working, and what might be missing.”
How can you leverage the human-storytelling framework of Archetypes to lay a foundation for DEI and move companies forward?
Today’s job candidates come into employment conversations with an already-formed first impression of the brand and culture. They want to find an organization that fits.
You can’t separate the diversity, equity, and inclusion work in the organization from the leadership development, from the organizational change. It is not a program; it has to be a system change.
You are not alone.
In a recent survey of 900 U.S. Based leaders, 75% said their firms were still terrible at remote work.