CULTURE & PERFORMANCE
Improve your return on human assets by stimulating the right behaviour
“Less than 30% of employees state their company’s actions are aligned with its stated values..”
“65% of VC-backed startups fail due to people issues.”
“70% of M&A deals do not reach satisfactory results as result of poor cultural compatibility."
"High-trust companies are 2,5 times more likely to have high revenue."
"Culture is what people do when they believe they are not being watched."
We provide data-driven insights into which factors drive human capital efforts towards a sustainable, high performance culture. Alignment between strategy and culture allows teams to reach full potential with direct impact on financial performance. Over 8000 organizations have worked with these techniques before you.
CULTURE SCAN
Our model has been tested in longitudinal research and predicts 33% of the variance in the Return On Assets for a period of up to 5 years. It shows you where to invest time and energy, to increase profitability, sales growth, employee satisfaction and overall financial performance.
The scan only takes 20 minutes to complete. With performance analytics we examine the predictors for the (financial) performance of the organization that are linked to organisational behavior. The assessment allows for natural language processing to increase objectivity and accuracy. Our benchmark consists of over 1000 organizations and 750.000 respondents.
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We measure a.o. mission (direction, purpose, blue print), consistency (systems, structures, processes), involvement (commitment, ownership, responsibility) and adaptability (patterns, trends, market).
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We use data to derive actionable insights that go beyond implementing so-called "best-practices" to develop the organization to attain a high-performance culture. We determine the strongest cultural drivers of performance in your unique organization; surface growth areas; identify the best-fit practices and leadership behaviors of your high-performing locations or work groups that can be shared with the rest of the organization to drive change in your organizations’ performance.
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The Culture Scan can be moduled to dive deeper into the specific areas that impact your unique organization's performance:
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Collaboration effectiveness
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Employee engagement
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Organizational trust
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Organizational innovation
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Safety management
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Risk management
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Digitalisation
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Diversity & inclusion
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Action planning
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Resilience (e.g. for COVID-19)
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The Culture Scan is well suited for:
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Culture alignment for strategy implementation
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Organizational turnaround and transformation
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Leadership development and transitions
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Team and individual performance improvement
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Venture Capital due diligence
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Mergers & Acquisitions integration
BEHAVIORAL CHANGE
Assessing the as-is situation is only the first step. The goal is of course to change behaviors there were the organization can benefit from it. For every organization this can mean something else.
We do not focus on the hype of the moment. Concepts like agility or employee engagement might or might not be what your organization needs "to fix" right now in order to thrive. We are no strategy consultants either. We will not tell you on which markets to focus or which products/services you should provide.
What we will do however, is take your core values, ambitions and strategy and help you align behaviors - your culture. We will translate who you say you are (or want to be) and what differentiates you from your competition into "descriptive business ethics" (like leadership styles, ways of working within and between teams). The desired behaviors might be different depending on the activity of teams or their locations. There is no one-size-fits-all solution, but differences should make evidence-based sense.
Leadership
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The leader of a team always has a large impact on the behavior within that team. Good leadership is aligned with the core values, the business ethics and the desired the culture of the organisation.
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The Culture Scan can therefore be complemented with a 360 Leadership Impact Assessment that provides leaders with an analysis of twelve leadership skills and practices that have the greatest impact on organizational performance in line with the culture assessment.