Corporate Culture Tools

This section of our site offers FREE tools and practices we use in working with clients to support their culture change efforts.  We add a new tool every few weeks so check back often or sign up (link to Sign-Up box) to receive them via our newsletter.

Assessing Culture

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

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.

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.