Culture is at the heart of change
Culture is the invisible force that governs how organisations acts and reacts. A strong culture is in tune with the core values of an organisation and is rooted in authenticity. Similarly, an effective culture fits the strategy.
Workz helps change or anchor culture, mindsets and behaviour to support strategies and keep up with changing times. By using our unique toolbox, we help translates lofty ideals into actual workplace behaviour.
Culture eats change for breakfast
The hard part of working with culture is that it is invisible and impossible to change directly. Bad culture also has a tendency to create negativ feedback loops that makes working with it even harder. Here is why it is difficult:
We help with three core challenges.
Leading culture
Without leadership support a new culture is dead in the water. Leaders create culture by role-modelling, and by pointing their "gaze of leadership" in the right direction.
Lost in translation
It is impossible to define a culture in enough detail for it to apply to everybody. This is why each part of the organisation must define meaningful standards and behaviour for themselves.
Shades of grey
Organisational culture is born in the world of ideals, but has to survive in the real world. Therefore, people must be empowered with the autonomy to navigate grey zones and conflicting agendas.
Changing and anchoring values
Values and principles are the manifest of any organisational culture. The help send a strong signal about what is right or wrong and act as the foundation for organisational engagement.
Workz can help orchestrate organisation-wide co-creation and involvement campaigns to develop new culture rooted in authenticity.
We use storytelling and gamification to help implement already defined culture, and support the process until it no longer feels like a journey.
Cultivating new behaviour
It is not a culture if it is not displayed through actual behaviour.
Workz helps turn values and principles into new ways of working and changed behaviour through workshop formats and process tools.
We guide top-management to let go of the controls and facilitate engaging conversations to help the organisation to make the culture their own.
Mindsetting
From diversity and inclusion, through customer centricity, to working with compliance and safety mindsets, you need to adapt to changing agendas. You do this by bringing new priorities to top-of-mind, by creating supporting structures and by cultivating new behaviour.
Workz help you communicate your priorities, and facilitate healthy discussions to help people reflect on their role and what behaviour to change.
Onboarding
Whether you want to anchor and preserve an existing culture or want to change the culture, the recruitment process is crucial. However, even the best recruits need to be guided into the ways of working and the organisational culture of their new organisation.
Workz can help develop your onboarding process. To do this, we use engaging communication materials, serious games and dialogue tools to get your new colleagues on the right path from the start. For their sake as well as the organisations.
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