Culture by chance or by choice?
Taylor Clarke partnered with us around a number of important transformational work streams to help us identify cultural issues to address, and to develop robust interventions to drive the required cultural improvement. Their involvement and support have made an important contribution to the turnaround of our business over the past 4 years.
- Jonathan Pallas, Group HR Director, Coveris
What is Culture?
Let’s start by being clear about what leadership is not. It’s not a job title, a position or a place on an organisation chart. Leadership is an act that can be carried out by anyone, anytime, anywhere. We believe that everyone, in every team, in every organisation has the potential to ‘commit acts of leadership’. The secret is making sure that leadership potential is released to the benefit of the individual, the team and the organisation.
Culture is misunderstood and often a hidden opportunity
We believe every organisation has a culture and values that under pin “how they work” but this is not always aligned with purpose and strategy, particularly in times of major external and/or directional change. Attempts to define, drive and control this alignment process rarely succeed.
Our success is based on helping you shape your culture and discover your values, building on “what you have” to bridge the gap to “what you need”. Creating the ability to inform strategic choices and decisions and implementing change in a way that shapes and reinforces a consistent, sustainable and aligned culture. A winning culture in which people know what it means to live the values and whose potential is released to engage with and own their role in delivering successful change with a strong sense of purpose.
The power of an aligned culture
A purposefully developed and aligned culture will actively support the accelerated delivery of your strategy. When culture is ignored, misunderstood or hard to define it can slow down the implementation of strategy and the delivery of change. Intentionally shaped and nurtured your culture can be a powerful force for change. Often strategies and leaders are changed at great cost, with limited return, when the root cause is a failure to understand and align your culture.
A bespoke approach to co-creating culture change plans
We have been evolving our culture development framework and tool kit to help us work collaboratively with clients. We help client organisations navigate their way through a process which helps identify the culture they have and be more intentional around how they shape the culture they need to achieve their strategic goals in a more informed, measured and structured approach
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Every project is different, culture has many moving parts and influences so the start points, journey and solutions vary with the context and goals
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Our approach helps bring more focus, measurement, structure and ownership to the development of the diagnosis, plan, choices, ownership and engagement around a process we believe is shaped from the top and built from the bottom.
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We wear several hats…..Coach, Consultant, Facilitator, Critical Adviser in supporting a co-creation process that is fundamentally collaborative
This high level 3 phase Framework and Road Map is flexibly applied to build on your start point and goals to help shape a plan to engage with your leadership team and identify the opportunities, challenges and solutions to aligning culture and strategy working with your leaders, values, operating model and change teams.
A bespoke approach to co-creating culture change plans
As part of our process we ask senior management teams explore seven key questions:
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What kind of culture do we have now and why?
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Are our Values working hard enough for us?
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What kind of culture do we need to transform performance and why?
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How can we lead the way with our own behaviour as individuals and as a team?
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Where are the bottlenecks and challenges that we can examine to deepen understanding of cultural barriers and enablers and discover our “Real” values?
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What practices do we need to change to realign and embed the required culture and values?
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How do we change our organisational habits and ensure these changes stick?
Our Valued Partners
Taylor Clarke has had the privilege of working with a diverse range of clients, spanning various sectors and industries, and continues to build strong, collaborative partnerships.
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