- There is often a gap between an organization’s described culture and the employees’ lived experience. This gap varies by employee level, with leaders of leaders having more positive perceptions of their organization’s culture than nonmanagers.
- There is a lack of awareness around the material impact that physical space, leaders, HR, and employees have in shaping the desired culture, values, and behaviors.
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Critical Insight
- How employees behave and interact makes or breaks organizational success. An intentionally designed culture blueprint is the key to strengthening the organization’s competitive advantage and articulating the behaviors, beliefs, and mindsets needed for strategic execution and a positive experience.
Impact and Result
- To unleash the power of culture, organizations must start with intentional culture design to outline a culture blueprint that is linked to the organization’s mission, vision, and strategy and will ultimately influence organizational outcomes.
- HR must support culture design by conducting a culture assessment, facilitating the process of defining the desired culture, and identifying both the commonalities and gaps between the current and desired culture.
- Using results from a culture assessment and with the desired culture in mind, HR must catalyze executive and senior leadership reflection on how the desired culture is reinforced and set the stage for culture change.
Articulate and Foster Organizational Culture
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How to complete this course:
Use these videos, along with the Project Blueprint deck above, to gain an understanding of the subject. Start with the Introduction, then move through each of the Course Modules. At the end of each Module, you will be required to complete a short test to demonstrate your understanding. You will complete this course when you have completed all of the course tests.
- Number of Course Modules: 5
- Estimated Completion Time: 1.5 hours
Learning Outcome
HR professionals will understand how to support leaders in determining the culture that is best for the organization to deliver on the strategy and choose the values that will have the maximum impact. Understand the importance of alignment around values and how they can be reinforced through HR programs.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Recognize the importance of culture to drive the organization’s strategy.
- Examine the current culture and values in their organization.
- Examine the options to equip leaders with the tools to drive change.
- Connect culture with their own role and make decisions to drive and reinforce alignment of culture.
- Support business leaders in working toward disseminating and maintaining culture.
Course Modules
Introduction
Module 1
Module 2
Module 3
Module 4