S7 E8 Build your Core-Ensure your strategy and culture are Symbiotic not cannibalistic! - 4 steps to successful integration with Lisa Askwith

E8 Build your Core-Ensure your strategy and culture are Symbiotic not cannibalistic! - 4 steps to successful integration

To build your core you need to set a true playing field for success. So in part 1 we looked at understanding that your people want and structuring accordingly, in part 2 and 3 we looked at developing your leaders, the crucial link for success and then developing your people. Now we need to further strengthen your playing field for success and ensure your culture is not only positive but that it works with not against your strategy.

Step 1

Use Culture Surveys and 360 degree leadership feedback to diagnose where you are now

Must be synergistic for success- review your culture now, really ask what it is, does it exist, is it positive……or is it something you prefer not to think about….if that’s the case then you need to start looking more deeply, and thinking about if a culture survey is needed to really start to dig into the problems.

If your culture and strategy diverge, it does untold damage, as you will find the core of your people live in the culture piece and are influenced by it strongly. Your leadership team lives mostly in the strategy piece. So you can see if your leaders are focussing on strategy and it does not match your culture you are going to have a massive problem with getting anything done, and particularly with getting it done well or in a way that allows the company to excel and fight off the competition.

Step 2

Set up your key indicators to diagnose where the issues are in conjunction with the results from Step 1

1- Exit interviews 2- Staff turn over 3- Length of average staff stay 4- Length of stay post training 5- Leadership feedback 6- Culture feedback 7- Have anonymous feedback channel

Step 3

Clarify the issues and plan solutions

1- Gain agreement from the leadership team on exact issues 2- Fact check these issues with a working group from the people in the business 3- Compare the answers for both and decide on the most pressing issues to solve 4- Set up working teams from across the business with only 1 or 2 leadership members to help support and carry through recommendations 5- Make these 3 monthly rolling projects and drive success.

Step 4

1- Make culture review part of the leadership team's responsibility and KPIS 2- Culture must be part of the quarterly leadership reviews- including the key indicators from Step 2 3- Consider a yearly culture initiative run by a working team form across the business 4- Ensure culture needs are embedded in all documentation and strategy

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Director of ApexBRS | ApexBRS, Regional Director of See Global Media, Chair of EGN Singapore, and Associate Professor Cambridge Corporate University | At the Age of Change, providing the HR component of the Global Executive MBA and BBA. Lisa has worked for some of the largest companies in the world and successfully led restructures and change management programs in order to improve the bottom line through engaging the people for success, while developing exceptional leaders who can make a positive impact on Culture and long term business sustainability.

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