how to create a great workplace culture?
Work culture is an emerging dynamic of an organisation as a system. It is gradually shaped by individual interactions, overt and covert rules, implicit norms and behaviours. It is expressed in pattern of our everyday interactions. In turn, our dominant work culture shapes and influences our individual interactions, often limiting our potential.
Learn how to influence its dynamics to help emerge collaborative behaviour patterns and unleash collective potential.
dimensions of a thriving workplace ecosystem
A thriving ecosystem is one in which different individuals coevolve and are able to thrive in their own way. Leaders are important key nodes in this network. They can help shape the dynamics of interactions to enable the emergence of such patterns as synergies, performance, and sense of serving a higher purpose together.
By transforming the way leaders approach their role, we help realise the full potential that lies at the core of each human system.
what is the culture in your organisation?
The overall mindset with which we approach our work creates the conditions for performance - individual and collective. Take the assessment to gain awareness of your current organistional culture.
Each step towards the interdependent culture helps to bring about the emergence of high performance, engagement, trust, and greater teamwork.
increase the potential for high performance & reduce interferences
dependent culture
✺ leadership focus
Leader as expert, fear of failure, little or no vision
✺ organisational systems
Top-down communications, high supervision, getting work done
independent culture
✺ leadership focus
Values & standards, individual performance
✺ organisational systems
Support learning & individual goals, competitive dynamics, high autonomy, achievement mentality
interdependent culture
✺ leadership focus
Collaboration, common good, shared vision, meaning, & purpose. Team potential, & collective transformation
✺ organisational systems
Adaptive systems approach, agile decision-making, high engagement, strong sense of ownership
getting your workplace culture assessment
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The assessment considers various current patterns of behaviours and norms, and their impact on the individual and collective performance. We include such aspects as the prevailing cultural mindset and main patterns of interaction, your current levels of organisational clarity of purpose and vision, the motivators currently operating in your workplace, the leadership impact and blidspots at different levels, as well as the operation of the key organisational systems and processes.
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You are absolutely right: each team develops their own distinctive style of interaction. Every collective might effectively operate on a different level of cultural development, leading to different performance levels. Together, we will zoom in on the cultural ethos and the prevailing mindset of your special group of interest. Our goal is to enable you to gain awareness of the link between the current level of performance and the key characteristics of the prevailing culture. This step is the first concrete action toward the real change.
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Absolutely. Together, we will explore your current leadership style as shaped by your organisational culture and simultaneously shaping it. Which leadership behaviours are at the core of the current culture? Which norms and beliefs are underlying your leadership style? You will gain awareness of your leadership blindspots, and how to improve your team performance by developing new, more effective patterns of leadership.