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3-Step Process for Assessing Culture Fit for Hiring
Most organizations realize how important hiring the right people is to the businesses’ success. But do you know how to assess whether a candidate will be a good match with your corporate culture, before you make the costly decision to bring them on board? Use this tool to help you assess and hire candidates for cultural fit.
Assessing Culture
10 Tips for Communicating Through Storytelling
Communicating in the corporate world is fraught with boring PowerPoints and bored people. Lighten up leaders! The use of story and metaphor is a powerful catalyst to ignite action in people, which happens more by emotion than by facts. In a cultural change a great story helps you to build a powerful “future state” that helps people buy into a shared vision of “who we are becoming” versus “what will stay the same.” This tool will coach you through ten tips for building a strong emotional connection into your communications.
Organizational Change Readiness
How likely is it that your innovation or culture change effort will succeed? This tool is based on critical success factors that predict readiness for change or innovation in a corporate culture — and help you pinpoint where trouble spots may trip you up in your innovation efforts.
Assess Corporate Culture Balance v. Imbalance
Balance predicts growth, which is expressed through day-to-day ease or resistance of work flow, in areas like teamwork, decision making, and customer service. Take this assessment to see where your organization’s practical daily activities are out of balance and need adjustment.
Repairing Broken Cultures
Changing Corporate Culture Through Tough Conversations
One of the toughest tests of authentic leadership is telling someone a hard truth. This ability is a critical success factor of a corporate culture that can adapt and learn. This tool outlines 10 principles for developing your ability to have tough conversations with compassion and empathy – and becoming a role model for the ultimate culture change: Truth and transparency.
Changing Culture by Improving Decision Making
Most organizations still operate with command-style decision rights, but are in a global matrix structure. This slows down the ability to move at the speed of today’s change. Proper decision making process is a very high leverage tool in our corporate culture change efforts. This tool will help you implement our key steps.
Aligning to Change
Culture Change & Communication
During culture change (or ANY change management effort) the task of making the change stick is 1% vision and 99% alignment. Building the story of change and repeating the same points over and over, is how you align people, create buy-in, and help everyone take appropriate action during change. This tool offers the 5 questions everyone wants answered by the story.
4 Corporate Culture Types That Hinder Change And Innovation
Leaders are often reluctant (or completely unaware) to admit when their corporate culture is the cause of poor focus, filled with unhappy people, or plagued by political games. Too often, the real causes of performance are ignored or dismissed until it’s too late. Leaders, we urge you to wake up from your dream-fog! The first step to making real cultural change happen is to accept reality.
Five Tips for Corporate Cultures of Innovation
Great companies –small or large– go beyond defining “innovation” as product or new service development. They create a corporate culture where employees constantly improve the right stuff (including how you work and how you execute strategy) all the time. Learn the top five tips for building innovation-friendly workplace cultures.
4 Keys to Empowering Front-Line Employees.
Business needs to take the lead on innovation and growth – it’s fundamental to our economic and job recovery. Doing this requires a “culture of ideas,” NOT at the executive ranks, but from excited, passionate people on the front lines. The people closest to your customers and products have great ideas for growth, but outdated ways of working in the business significantly hinder them expressing those ideas and taking action. This tool outlines the keys to innovating through an empowered front-line employee culture. Regardless of the business size or stage, these are proven to create a stronger accountability and engagement, from employees who have the biggest impact on your bottom line.
Merging Cultures
5 Tips to Prepare For Successful Corporate Culture Mergers
During a merger, culture clash is inevitable. According to research, culture is a significant issue behind the fact that 65-75% of mergers fail to deliver the expected ROI. This tool pinpoints the most important areas to attend to in preparing for a successful merger.