Corporate culture & cultural change.
Culture is not a soft factor — it is the operating system of your organisation: the sum of the shared habits that set it apart from every other. And that makes it one of the hardest success factors there is, because no competitor can simply copy it.
That is exactly why culture is so hard to change: it does not happen through appeals to values and attitudes, but only by rebuilding the conditions under which behaviour shifts across the board. Here you will find the collected knowledge of more than twenty years of consulting practice — from the question of what culture actually is, through proven methods of change, to particular cultures and areas of conflict.
What is corporate culture, when should you change it and how can you?
7 Beiträge- 01 Corporate culture a soft factor with hard consequences 8 min
- 02 Culture change a strategy for rebuilding shared habits step by step 7 min
- 03 Shaping culture forming the culture of a new company 6 min
- 04 Corporate values how do we want to run our business? 6 min
- 05 Leadership culture what are top management's real priorities? 8 min
- 06 Departmental cultures why differences are not only unavoidable but necessary 9 min
- 07 Measurement systems how your controlling shapes your culture 7 min
Methods of culture change in practice
12 Beiträge- 01 Mission statements and leadership principles why they change nothing 8 min
- 02 Culture diagnosis what characterises the "personality" of our company? 10 min
- 03 Culture goals strategic development — with respect for the existing culture 8 min
- 04 Mindset why attitudes and beliefs are the wrong place to start a culture change 5 min
- 05 Communication in culture change communicating through words and deeds 9 min
- 06 Culture analysis what stands in the way of future success? 5 min
- 07 Cause-and-effect analysis getting a grip on complexity 8 min
- 08 The dramaturgy of change staging change processes 10 min
- 09 Synchronisation focusing attention on a shared start 6 min
- 10 Defining indicators breaking abstract goals down into observable behaviour and verifiable results 9 min
- 11 Reactance the fine mechanics of resistance 10 min
- 12 Motivation to change building the readiness and the will to change 6 min
Particular topics in culture change
12 Beiträge- 01 Cost awareness it is cost behaviour that counts, not "awareness"! 5 min
- 02 Internal customer focus improving the performance of the whole team 7 min
- 03 Trust the rocky road to a "culture of trust" 5 min
- 04 Distrust paralysis through assuming bad intentions 4 min
- 05 Identification ("ownership") how commitment and engagement come about 9 min
- 06 Resignation why powerlessness makes people dull and apathetic 8 min
- 07 Internal competition maximising friction losses 8 min
- 08 Management theatre when self-presentation and posturing get in the way of the work 8 min
- 09 Professionalism holding to demanding standards 7 min
- 10 Customer focus from incantation to change programme 5 min
- 11 Business ethics recognising and correcting incentives for improper conduct 7 min
- 12 Creativity the conditions under which innovation thrives 10 min
Particular organisational cultures and areas of conflict
4 Beiträge- 01 Change management and culture change in mid-sized companies taking change forward pragmatically 7 min
- 02 The public sector change management under different conditions? 10 min
- 03 Non-profit organisations / NGOs change management with kid gloves 5 min
- 04 Head office and branches modern-day tribal feuds 9 min
Is your culture no longer holding? Let us talk.
In a free initial consultation we work out where the problem lies and propose a concrete next step — and we guide the whole process.