Organisational transformation and culture
Weaving parts into a Coherent whole
Culture eats strategy for breakfast. An organisation that has the best strategy in the world, but a culture that won't allow it to make that strategy happen, will struggle to survive. Want to be innovative but live in an organisation where people don’t say what they think and afraid to take risks?
What is the picture of your organisation in the minds of your stakeholders?
Organisations primarily exist inside people’s hearts and minds, not just as a set of buildings, hierarchies or products. And yet, this inner world is the part to which the least attention is given, because it cannot be seen and therefore it appears complex. However, it's impact is tangibly felt and it directly controls what gets done, whether or not we attend to it. By understanding more about it and how to work with it, we can open up resources that are already in existence but that need help to be released.
In fact, futurologists believe that organisations of the future will rely much less on their physical attributes – the office of 2020 will become well kitted-out ‘coffee bars’ - a gathering place to dialogue, release mental/emotional gridlocks and co-create with colleagues, customers and partners. This is the new "work", while left brain “work” as we know it today is done in remote locations once people have inter-connected and reflected more with the world around them to be wiser about what needs to be done and why.
As we move towards 2020, culture becomes the fabric of who you are as an organisation – the brand - lived meaningfully from the inside and out. All disconnected parts must be reconnected and this takes inner work.
Culture and courageous leadership go hand in hand: Be the change.
Transforming the culture of how you work takes time, commitment and deep understanding of the inner psychology of your organisation in relation to the world in which we exist. Rather than a strategic event, it is an ongoing enquiry of improvement that requires steadfast belief, inner and outer vision, flexible attitudes and persistence against resistances (including your own!). It also requires people who can work comfortably with the intangible to read what is happening and make sense of it for others, and it calls for the humility to search for courage, wisdom and authority to bring about change.
Transforming the culture of how you work takes time, commitment and deep understanding of the inner psychology of your organisation in relation to the world in which we exist. Rather than a strategic event, it is an ongoing enquiry of improvement that requires steadfast belief, inner and outer vision, flexible attitudes and persistence against resistances (including your own!). It also requires people who can work comfortably with the intangible to read what is happening and make sense of it for others, and it calls for the humility to search for courage, wisdom and authority to bring about change.
That takes tremendous leadership! Helping people to release fear and embrace their own power, whilst surrendering the crutch of hierarchy and suffocating processes. So culture and leadership go hand in hand.
Culture is a forecast of organisation potential
The more culture is strategically and consciously nurtured to align in to core purpose, the more successful the company. If not, it quickly becomes toxic, undermining and opposing the reason for which your organisation exists in the first place.
The more culture is strategically and consciously nurtured to align in to core purpose, the more successful the company. If not, it quickly becomes toxic, undermining and opposing the reason for which your organisation exists in the first place.
"Fixing Culture is the most critical - and the most difficult - part of a corporate transformation." (Lou Gerstner retired CEO of IBM)
"A company without a compelling culture is like a person without a personality – flesh and bones but no life force, no soul." (Henry Mintzberg HBR)
How can Xenergie help?
Extra-ordinary vision
Enabling and Inspiring Business Transformation Teams
To see all that is going on objectively usually requires some outside assistance to uncover the blind spots and interpret the unconscious behaviour that weaves through your culture – the collective conscious, the ‘spirit’ of the organisation. Xenergie co-pilots you on a journey of extra-ordinary vision to see what you have not yet seen. We then work with your internal change-makers to reinvent and enable change. Our role is to enable YOU and transfer insight and understanding of psychology of humanity, not to do it for you. Only YOU can BE your culture.
To see all that is going on objectively usually requires some outside assistance to uncover the blind spots and interpret the unconscious behaviour that weaves through your culture – the collective conscious, the ‘spirit’ of the organisation. Xenergie co-pilots you on a journey of extra-ordinary vision to see what you have not yet seen. We then work with your internal change-makers to reinvent and enable change. Our role is to enable YOU and transfer insight and understanding of psychology of humanity, not to do it for you. Only YOU can BE your culture.
For an exploratory discussion, please contact Lorna McDowell.
