Your Guide to Conducting a Baseline Culture Audit
Whether you have a healthy culture or are struggling with toxic behaviors — you must begin by surveying the culture to establish a clear starting point.
Building trust is fundamental to sustain high performing teams. It requires a workplace where psychological safety and conflict resolution are prioritized. And, leaders need new skills and deeper awareness to manage hybrid and remote teams.
CultureTalk gives you an instant snapshot of a team’s makeup, helping you to identify emerging leaders, missing skills, and opportunities for team development.
Leaders need to be intentional about the development of the team dynamic and take responsibility for the ongoing challenge of human beings working together.
Investing in effective teamwork strategies helps organizations address competitive challenges and grow in positive ways.
CultureTalk Profiles help teams build trust quickly. Collaborations become more productive when each person’s motivations and strengths are aligned. Even conflict can be put to good use when we trust others to challenge our ideas and see what we don’t see.
Research Department Shifts Team Culture and Reputation
Video: A team reflects on learning their Archetypes
Whether you have a healthy culture or are struggling with toxic behaviors — you must begin by surveying the culture to establish a clear starting point.
Many organizations believe they’ve laid out clear culture expectations. Yet, if we were to point them to actual behaviors, we might uncover a different reality.
While the prospect of culture change may feel daunting at first, it’s not as scary, overwhelming, or impossible as you might fear. With the right framework and process, a culture transformation can be distilled into practical steps and behaviors that get people at all levels of the organization rowing in the same direction.
Checking the culture box isn’t enough. Culture has taken center stage and every CEO has taken notice. But creating an organizational culture that attracts talent, drives employee engagement, and informs business strategy is challenging for even the strongest leaders.
The moment you survey a team to ask their opinion on cultural issues, you must be prepared to share authentic results and an action plan to create change. If you don’t, engagement and morale will be negatively affected.
CultureTalk Partner Reynaldo Naves and his associates at Olivia Global had a big assignment: transform the culture and create cultural consistency across multiple brands underneath Brazil’s largest fashion retailer in-step with operations integration and technological advancements. This was a successful company with a great reputation and wide reach. They had already found a winning formula, so it had to be asked “How do we move around the parts and pieces of this organization without breaking anything that works?” The intervention had to be deliberate and precise.