Do you know what your employees do at work when you are not around? Are they motivated? Are they acting like owners of the business? Do they know what the next step of the business is if there is nobody to direct them?
Every leader wants to answer yes to those questions, but in reality many of them cannot. The problem is lack of confidence in the connections that bind their enterprise together.
Still, how a leader can be sure that everyone acts in the best interest of the company when no one is watching?
The answer is: culture.
Organizational culture is like a fingerprint – unique. It is something about business that the competitors cannot copy.
A strong culture is the emotional path by which a company’s vision and priorities spread from top to bottom.
A company’s culture is the organization’s soul, shaped through success and setback.
Great leaders must actively manage the culture, continuously reinforce practices and beliefs. They also use events like acquisitions, structural or regulatory shift, a change in strategic direction to shape the culture and harness it to what the company wants to achieve.
This is not an easy task. Designing new strategies, structures and processes is essential to any change initiative, but altering the behavior, perception and performance of a large number of people is infinitely harder.
We work with clients to instill a culture that meets a firm’s strategic aspirations. We help to clarify the desired culture and the steps required to get there. We offer support in all these activities because to make culture a top priority takes time, determination and willingness. The requirements are high but the payoff is always worth it.