How To Prepare For A Culture Transformation
Business Change Requires Cultural Transformation
Are you about to embark on a business transformation? If so, you must begin by preparing to execute a culture transformation across your organization.
In a hyper-competitive world, CEOs recognize that any significant change that must occur in business—requires a shift in the employees mindset from the conditioning of their attitudes, values, beliefs or priorities in such a way as to modify their behavior and that of the company’s culture.
As we learned over the years, it’s less impactful to engineer a business transformation through the creation of new processes, structure or planning initiatives alone, but must be accomplished with intentional focus on people from leadership behavior adjustments to leadership actions along with your employee inputs.
As we continue to mobilize a winning culture around the world, we discovered human interaction is form of professional intimacy which shows people are not robots and could not be transformed with the deployment of tools or processes as we do machines. CultureSparq uses both behavioral and attitudinal transformation techniques to achieve optimum performance with startups and Fortune 500 companies to attract the culture attention and increase their overall engagement.
Here’s what you can to do prepare
Gather information about your existing culture
Hire an impartial consultant to become an observer of your culture in action. Allow them to look at the employees and their interaction in your organization to learn where improvement is need for the transformation journey.
Develop and Communicate a Compelling Vision
Establish a clear and compelling vision for the desired change, outline the reasons for the change, and help employees understand how the change impacts their individual roles. This includes giving all your employees the platform to express their concerns, ask questions, and get the clarity they need to support the initiative.
Develop a Plan and Timeline
Map out a timeline with key milestones and an end goal where leaders can recognize and reward employee efforts, which will help build support for change along the way.
Help Employees Prepare
Demonstrate empathy for employees by showing a willingness to understand their worries and concerns by providing cash incentives, appreciation letters, and other programs for your employees to help foster a sense of belonging.
Pinpoint where training and re-skilling is needed
Understand and address your employee training needs early on.
Develop Diverse Team of Leaders Who Can Champion the Change
Identify and send leaders within the organization to a leadership training that teaches them how to coach employees, communicate expectations, and recognize employee behaviors that support culture transformation.
Diagnose challenges and identify opportunities
Figure out the root causes of issues the organization is facing and provide recommendations to improve them.
Remember
All transformation requires you to start with a Culture Transformation as the first step in your journey. This requires commitment and understanding from organizational leaders and your partners throughout the entire process.
As with any corporate initiative, it’s important to establish a vision, team of influential leaders, plan the process, and ensure employees have the necessary training and tools to do their part to support lasting culture transformation.
We are working with companies around the world to Build The Culture. Schedule sometime with me to learn how we can prepare your workforce for your Transformational Journey.