Through our ongoing support you can achieve improved performance to your bottom line while expanding your contribution to the world. We assist you in understanding your organization’s current culture and help you identify where improvements will strengthen your competitive advantage.
It is no secret to the most forward thinking leaders that culture drives performance. In Corporate Culture and Performance, John P. Kotter and James L. Heskett show that companies with strong adaptive cultures, based on shared values outperformed other companies by a significant margin. Over an eleven-year period companies that emphasized shared values with all their stakeholders grew four times faster and had job creation rates seven times higher than their counterparts. Most impressively, these companies’ stock prices grew 12 times faster and their profit performance was 750 times higher than the companies that did not manage their cultures proactively!
Our culture assessments begin with extensive interviews with you and your key people. We also include simple-to-administer online organizational surveys that illuminate the matches and discrepancies between your people’s personal values and your current values in practice, as well as the matches and discrepancies between your current values in practice and the values your people desire in order to become a higher performing organization. Additionally, these learnings are mapped onto the 7 levels of organizational consciousness necessary to optimize your financial performance and mission impact. You will also see how much entropy or waste your people report in your current culture due to the potentially limiting values that are unfortunately in play. Ultimately, these initial assessments provide a baseline to measure how your culture is becoming stronger over time. And what you can measure you can manage!
Once we have completed our assessment, we recommend an initial scope of work to address your immediate concerns and give you an experience of working with us so you can evaluate our credibility. Once we are both confident that a longer term engagement is in your best interests, we develop a set of objectives, scope of work, and budget that guides our relationship.
Each of these consulting relationships is customized to your unique situation. To obtain a deeper understanding of the benefits of measuring and managing your organizational values we suggest you explore the various articles and tools available through the Barrett Values Centre at www.valuescentre.com.
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