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“You cannot create a new culture… you can only set the stage for
the culture to evolve. Culture is complex, powerful, deep and stable.
It can be evolved if you think clearly about it
and understand its dynamics.” Edgar Schein
“Never underestimate the magnitude of the forces that reinforce complacency and help maintain the status quo.”
John Kotter
It's a fact, culture is the key to success for all change efforts. Aggessive and defensive cultures defeat continual improvement. Will your organization will be able to improve in both the short and long term? What type of culture do you have? We can complete a statistically valid culture survey to determine where your culture is at and where your employees want your culture to be. Then everyone in your organization can work on changing your culture to ensure your success in the future.
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Peter R. Scholtes said we take ordinary dysfunctional behavior and elevate it to something ethereal by defining it as the “culture” of an organization. To visualize culture we often picture it as an iceberg with culture being the hidden or “below the surface” part of the organization. Defining and transforming your corporate culture is truly a serious challenge.
The Organizational Culture Inventory[1] (OCI) takes the mystery out of learning about your culture and what it takes to make it postive
and supportive of:
· constructive interactions between people
· effective teamwork
· problem solving and
· managing for continual improvement.
The OCI is a statistically valid survey completed by respondents to describe the thinking and organizational styles expected to be followed by employees to get along in the company. The feedback from the 120 statements in the OCI describe twelve different cultural styles. Using the OCI a company can learn, What is the current culture in the company and What style of culture do the employees desire?
Companies routinely ask in operations, What is actually going on? and compare it to, What should be going on? The OCI gives management the ability to answer these questions relative to culture and obtain what was previously unattainable data. The data on the twelve cultural styles from the feedback obtained in the OCI is displayed on a an easy-to-read and interpret circumplex graph. The OCI turns what were previously hidden unique mental processes (culture) into a an exposed visual data generating system.
Using the OCI we can guide your management team and workers through the cultural change transformation. Isn’t it time you learned:
· What style of culture exists in your organization?
· What style of culture do your employees want? and
· How will you start and sustain the cultural change required to get there?
We can help you achieve this goal. The OCI gives the evaluation and assessment needed to measure culture and then design what is needed so it will support the kind of management required for continual improvement. This will enhance and improve the competivtive postion of your company in today’s economy.