Leaders are often setting an agenda that means changing culture. For example:
- “We need to improve safety.”
- “We need to ramp up innovation.”
- “We need to address risk-taking head-on.”
Sometimes, the agenda is harder to articulate.
- “We’re failing in a new market that seemed comparable when we analysed it.”
- “These two businesses fit together beautifully on paper. Why is merging them so hard in practice?”
For leaders in those – and other parallel – situations, the problem is also one of culture.
Effective change starts once a leader can reliably measure team or company culture. That’s the first step to working out what in the culture is getting in the way of achieving your business objectives.
Measuring culture also gives catalysts a baseline that identifies the best levers for change, so that leaders can transform the negative cultural aspects without losing all the positives.
Throughline is certified by Itim Focus in the use of The Hofstede Model© to x-ray your organisation. We tailor projects using Itim Focus insights to achieve the desired change credibly, genuinely and effectively.