Transforming Culture Driving Performance

4. Create a cultural roadmap

established, teams will experience greater success. They will perform better in terms of collaboration and innovation and find the experience of working in teams more fulfilling and enjoyable, while being stretched and challenged. Many highly skilled teams fail when due care is not given to building connections, interpersonal skills and ways of working, and the establishment of the shared vision, expectations and aspirations.

Begin by gathering data on the current state of play. Implement a culture assessment and analyse the data including measurements of where your organisation is culturally and begin to analyse the journey that must be travelled to reach your future destination. Values drives behaviour so you need to identify what values are playing out which might prohibit your organisation from achieving its goals, and what changes must be made to directly impact on the vision and purpose. Remember to build engagement by communicating across the organisation, creating dialogue around values and behaviours. Integrate this thinking and your desired values and behaviours into your employee development and management programmes and you will begin to see the impact. Transforming culture requires attention at the individual, team and organisation level. Support individuals by helping them to understand their own values and behaviours and how to harness them for greater alignment, improved working relationships, better performance and personal success. Teams must work together cohesively according to an agreed set of behaviours and in service of the team’s vision or contribution to the organisation’s purpose. Leaders must model and advocate the values needed to achieve the organisation’s purpose.

8. Implement your strategies

You don’t need to do this alone. Work with specialist partners who commit to understanding your goals, aspirations and vision. Where one size doesn’t fit all, increasingly organisations are seeking out highly creative, agile partners who can deliver very specifically designed solutions that really do make a difference.

5. Upskill your employees

Ensuring you create the culture you need to drive performance.

6. Build trust in teams

Trust exists in working environments where strengths are recognised, and values are understood. Employees or team members must develop a positive or growth mindset which seeks out the gift or opportunity in situations and exchanges. Once trust is

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