An advanced approach for Culture Change

The Challenge of Culture Change

In both practice and academia Organization Culture is often poorly defined as "The way we do things here", with a focus on values, beliefs and behaviors etc. Culture is a somewhat nebulous! Is it Cause or Effect, or perhaps a bit of both? Often the focus on values, beliefs and behaviors, though relevant and important causes a misalignment of target culture with how the organization functions, or lacks alignment with changes and improvements intended. Culture is identified as one of the major causes of change failure and performance optimization. When we consider Culture it is the core Values, and how they impact behaviors and practices in an organization or team, they are pervasive and tacitly or explicitly observed. The influence is ongoing and situational, and conditions outcomes.

The consequences of not addressing Culture Change appropriately

By not acknowledging some or many of the organization or team’s cultural elements and traits that are either inappropriate, or sub-optimal, and/or failure to take action, can have many potential less than desired outcomes. These may include some or all of the following; poor personal, team or organization performance; difficulty with hiring and retention of staff; reputational damage; non-compliance, regulatory, employment law, legal, standards, etc. just to name a few. We often forget that core behaviors and practices my sometimes need to be temporarily adjusted to deal with certain VUCA situations as they arise. The functioning and cultural maturity level habituated by an organization or team determines the risk of inappropriate action in these circumstances.

Creating a Next Generation Culture Process & Culture Management

The UDT Theory and Model has enabled the improved definition of Culture. Culture can now be defined as Maturational Habituation Stage (Normative Maturity Level) where Culture Change can be treated in the same way any other Organization Development Activity is planned and implemented. By adopting the UDT based approach every transformation, change and improvement activity integrates and considers the key cultural stresses and supports that may exist or should be adjusted to assure target outputs and outcomes can be achieved. A UDT based maturity assessment of an organization, team or Digital Business provides a baseline for any and every change that includes the Culture domain.

The Culture Workshop

The purpose of this workshop is to engage participants in the process of understanding why? & how? Culture influences and impacts Performance, Change & Transformation, what the research has found as regards the impact of Culture. It presents how to scientifically assess it in the context of the current situation for an organization or team, and the appropriate calibrated next step roadmaps to achieve any target aims and objectives. It considers how to build a Culture Change Process as an integral part of the organization's functioning maturity development, that will assure successful Change outcomes, and build Agility, Resilience, Innovation & Stakeholder Satisfaction.

The Benefits of the Change Workshop

• It is facilitated by experienced tutors who have been involved in leading and participating in both incremental and transformational Culture change and who have contributed to academia and knowledge development in management science.

• It provides participants with an understanding of Culture & Culture Change Management "Best Practice" and how Organization's function and learn, introducing Next Generation Culture Change Management and Change Capability required for today's evolving VUCA environment.

• Through Action Learning participants gain the skills to understand and use the latest knowledge and tools to identify an organization's culture level, and design and implement change plans and actions that are calibrated to the existing and next step improvement functioning level, assuring sustainable traction and building of change capability.

• It looks at the "Root Cause" of Change Failure as it relates to Culture at each functioning level for every organization system element, and how that has informed the development and application of Next Generation UDT Theory and Models.

• It introduces the three reference models (Organization, Team & Digital) and their supporting Assessment tools that support the day to day application of UDT for an organization and/or team's development.

• It is cost and time efficient, with options for participation in the workshop minimizing disruption to participants day to day duties.

• It is a basis for Certification by the Institute.