THE CULTURE BAROMETER

The Culture Barometer provides you with clarity of what is happening across your organisation and what may need to be made a priority to better lead through the blue zone.  

Ignoring the blue zone, or putting it in the 'too hard' basket can result in your organisation not realising your Strategic Intent when, how and with as much of a positive outcome as you had hoped.  

Understanding  your cultural environment and the pressures that exist for your leaders and teams means you can better harness their brilliance on the journey toward your destination.  You will be better able to arrive at your desired end state strong, safe, engaged and commited with a higher level of confidence that the experience you created for your consumers and the relevance/quality of your products is better than you imagined possible.

There are four cultural paradigms your organisation may be operating in.  While you are likely to sit in one paradigm overall, your organisation could be in all four paradigms at once when you dive down into the specific attributes of the Enablers and Indicators of Cultural Strength. This deeper level of insight helps your teams build strategies unique to their needs. 

ASPIRING - you are standing on the dock seeing the benefits and increasing your understanding of how getting out on the water will help you reach new shores. 

ANCHORING - you are still in the marina, you're committing resources and learning new skills, building capabilities and establishing a solid foundation for your journey.  You're getting clear about where you are going and how you will get there.  

ACCELERATING - you are keenly committed to the destination of having a strong, cohesive and collaborative culture and are on the journey to getting there.  You have a strong team helping you to get there and you are gaining confidence and courage on the journey.  You are gaining momentum in the achievement of your Strategic Intent and Vision because of the efficiencies found in working together well.

AMPLIFYING - you have arrived at or are close to arriving at your desired destination, your teams have been continually improving the way they work to improve the impact, influence or efficiency of the work you do. You are seen as market leaders in your work and the outcomes you achieve.  You are shaping how this kind of work gets done in your industry.  You are courageous and willing to pursue innovative or creative solutions and agitate for further or more challenging outcomes. 

Depending on the depth of analysis and engagement you select, we can provide you with a report that provides insight into how your organisation is operating and how those ways of working are enabling your successful achievement of the Strategic Intent and Vision of your organisation.    

The results can be organisation wide or broken out in a way that provides specifics for various divisions or teams.    

There are multiple levels of detail you can choose from and we are happy to have a quick call with you to understand your needs and put forward our view of how The Culture Barometer can support your cultural journey.

Please contact us at info@theculturebarometer.com to arrange a conversation.

Cultural Brilliance is possible when culture is leader led, co-created and collectively owned.  When all those that exist in the culture feel a sense of belonging and have a voice in how culture and ways of working happens.

Our guided Cultural Brilliance journey takes you through five key steps...

A 

Understanding your current cultural paradigm

The Culture Barometer provides you with an understanding of your culture paradigm so you can take plan your journey and do your work in the most impactful ways.  You'll understand if you are Aspiring, Anchoring, Accelerating or Amplifying.  

Once you know this you can decide if where you are is where you need to be to get you to your desired destination. 

B 

Preparing your leaders for their role in leading culture

We then work with you to build the confidence and capability of your bridge deck, we support you in clarifying any barriers and guard rails and using a cultural bilge pump to remove blockers or barnacles that are getting in the way.  We will also raise your level of confidence and clarity in leading cultural change so you can course correct using the boom or bow thruster or even the back sail to stop forward momentum to ensure safety and readiness to move forward. Leader Led cultures means your leaders are intentional, influential and inspirational and creating the conditions for their teams to be confident, courageous and collaborative.  

C 

Engaging your organisation in defining and building on your cultural strengths

The five Enablers of Cultural Strength (Clarity, Confidence, Courage, Curation and Climate) and the subsequent 7 Indicators of these Enablers are the fundamental touchpoints for culture.  They are what we believe you can pay attention to when creating a culture that helps propel you toward your destination and in fact have your arriving at your destination ready and resilient.  Ready to explore new shores of possibility. 

D

Facilitating your organisation in designing a new cultural destination and response strategies

We are available to support your commitment to action by co-creating a Cultural Brilliance Strategy with your leaders and other key influencers in the organisation.  We do this by leading you through Unleashing Brilliance, a Playbook for Co-Creation.  The 4 phases, enabled by the five Cultural Enablers takes your team on a journey of Discovery, Discernment & Design, Desire & Dialogue and Diffusion.  Enabling you to support your organisation in creating the kind of climate and atmosphere for harnessing the capability of your organisation and unleashing the brilliance of your teams.  

E

Building a roadmap and committing to the new cultural destination with committed leaders and teams

The Unleashing Brilliance process will have us working with you to facilitate your organisation in coming together to collaboratively co-create the desired culture and a roadmap for creating a culture that better enables your organisation achieve its Strategic Intent in a more engaged, enabled and evolving way.