Organisational culture and change
“Culture – Weaving Substance into your Organisation”
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, is doomed from the outset. Want to be the first to market with the most innovative products, 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 in people’s hearts and minds, not as a set of buildings, hierarchies or products. 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 co-create with colleagues, customers and partners, while “work” as we know it today is done in remote locations as people inter-connect more with the world around them.
Culture and courageous leadership go hand in hand: Be the change.
So it’s important that we pay attention to the emotional and mental landscape in which business is done - this weaves the fabric of who the organisation is – the brand. Next, it’s vital to mature and galvanise the consciousness of “how we are” in the organisation, and develop a courageous and inquisitive ability to relate meaningfully across boundaries and distance, in order to bring forth the new. 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.
So it’s important that we pay attention to the emotional and mental landscape in which business is done - this weaves the fabric of who the organisation is – the brand. Next, it’s vital to mature and galvanise the consciousness of “how we are” in the organisation, and develop a courageous and inquisitive ability to relate meaningfully across boundaries and distance, in order to bring forth the new. 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, the more successful the company. If not, it can quickly become toxic and in opposition to corporate goals.
The more culture is strategically and consciously nurtured, the more successful the company. If not, it can quickly become toxic and in opposition to corporate goals.
The key question to ask is: Why should anyone care?
If you can’t give a good heartfelt reason for this, you’re on a fast downward slope. And if you have some sense but wonder if everyone feels the same, then perhaps it’s time to take a deeper look at your culture and ignite the flames of desire.
If you can’t give a good heartfelt reason for this, you’re on a fast downward slope. And if you have some sense but wonder if everyone feels the same, then perhaps it’s time to take a deeper look at your culture and ignite the flames of desire.
"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 Xenergie helps: Extra-ordinary vision
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 re-empower 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 re-empower 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.
