Culture Management
Culture represents the unwritten rules and standards of behavior that allow people within your organization to operate in a predictable manner. Productive cultures generate energy and results. Dysfunctional cultures impede performance.
As the CEO of one of our mulit-national client organizations noted:
“Either we manage culture or we live with what has been laid down over the years. In this competitive environment, I need culture to line up with our aspirations and strategy. This is too important for us to leave to chance.”
Intentional culture management is particularly important when companies refresh their strategy, acquire new entities, or find themselves stalled or losing talent.
We enable you to understand what aspects of your current culture are accelerating performance and what aspects are holding you back. With this clarity, we help you to design your preferred culture and execute a customized plan for sustainable culture management.
How it Works
Our typical engagement includes the following:
Clarify your “Winning Aspiration”
We work with leaders to answer the following questions:
- What does winning mean for us?
- How will we know we are winning?
- What culture is needed for us to win?
Assess your Current Culture
We evaluate your current culture with a mixed approach of focus groups, observation, surveys and interviews. We clarify the current culture and existing norms to provide a solid jumping off point for intentional culture management.
Describe your “Winning Culture”
We work with your senior leaders to explore how aspects of the current culture accelerate achievement of the winning aspiration and how other aspects of the current culture are impeding success.
Design your “Winning Culture”
We conduct a Culture Design Lab to help your leaders articulate what they want and determine how to proceed in a methodical manner.
Intentionally Manage Culture
Once a path forward is identified and agreed, we work with your leaders throughout the organization to execute the plan. Depending on the size of the organization, this step may incorporate cascading conversations that are supported by Centauric’s Meeting in a Box. When appropriate, we deploy the Centauric Habit Builder to nudge and reinforce behaviors associated with desired norms.
Evaluate your Impact
The process concludes with an evaluation of progress toward the achievement of your desired culture.
Testimonials
If you are seeking an opportunity to develop or continue to develop as a leader from both an awareness standpoint as well as a tactical strategies and tools for how you can go about making change, this meets a nice middle ground. If you’re looking to grow as a leader from relationships formed outside of your organization in a structured way, this delivers that and is incredibly valuable.
– Stephanie Morgan, Design Institute for Health
Whether it’s an individual who has a dilemma, a team that needs to up its game, or an organization facing challenges, Centauric experts are here to help you succeed with personalized services and practical solutions.
– Anthony Perrone, Northwestern Mutual Insurance Company
I’m consistently studying leadership, and there were definitely tools and perspectives in here that I haven’t come across before. This is without a doubt, very much worth the time and investment. The material is super beneficial for anyone ranging from a new manager up to an executive level.
– Caitlin Stone, Activist Artists Management
We would have moved directly into action but it was great to have Centauric with us to help us make the path, find what projects were most important and helped us challenge our assumptions.
– Vicki Poponi, VP Honda Consumer Journey Experience
I really liked the simplicity of the framework. Streamlined but powerful. The facilitators were very likable, articulate and created a sense of camaraderie even in a virtual group. The framework that they present is different from other leadership programs in that it’s simple, easy to implement and it’s effective. As a leader, that’s what you’re looking for, and I think the program accomplished that.
– Greg Barrett, CIRE Equity
Organizations benefiting from Centauric
