Check Your Culture - And How It Prepares You for the Future
Why Culture Matters More Than Ever
Your organizational culture isn’t just about “how things get done around here.” In today’s rapidly changing world, culture is your competitive advantage – or your biggest vulnerability.
Here’s what we’ve learned after helping hundreds of organizations:
Organizations with agile, learning cultures can pivot quickly when change hits. But even the best cultures can get blindsided by external disruptions they never saw coming.
The solution? Understand your current culture AND develop your culture to meet future threats and opportunities. Combine culture work with strategic foresight to anticipate what’s ahead.
Check Your Organizational Culture
We no longer have the license to provide the Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument online (© 1999 Kim S. Cameron). But you can still check and improve your organizational culture to be ready for the future!
Future-Fitness
Check the future-fitness of your current organizational culture. How would you rate your organization’s:
Short-Term Thinking versus Long-Term Thinking
Silos versus Cross-functional collaboration
Resistance to Change versus Openness to new possibilities
Focus on Production/performance versus focus on Learning/innovation
Defensive versus Progressive mindset (playing not to lose versus playing to win)
Compliance with procedures versus Flexibility and improvisation if needed
Homogeneity versus Diversity in staff and ideas
Polite silence versus Asking any question (social safety)
Or answer this one question:
Will our organization still be doing alright in 7 years time, if we don’t change anything?
Future-fit organizations engage in continuous learning (and un-learning), innovation, and development as the basis of their culture and operations.
Do you want to score your organization for future-fitness? Contact us for more information.
Positivity
Check your current culture on the positivity scale. Positive cultures outperform their competitors through higher productivity, better performance, increased innovation and learning, greater collabaration.
On a scale from 1 to 10, how does your current culture score on the four foundations of a positive culture:
1. Positive Awareness,
2. Connection and collaboration,
3. Shared meaningful purpose,
4. Learning and autonomy
Our Positive Culture Academy helps you develop a more positive, motivated, collaborative, learning and agile organizational culture. This is the basis for developing a resilient and future-fit organization.
What clients say
Take Your Culture Work Further - and become Future-Fit
After 30 years of culture work, we’ve discovered something crucial:
Culture work prepares you for change. Foresight work helps you see possible changes that are coming.
Organizations that master both are 33% more profitable than their competitors. They’re not just reactive or even adaptive – they’re proactive.
Positive Culture Academy: check and improve organizational culture
Online training program with practical modules on developing positive, productive cultures where people and performance thrive – as well as innovation, agility, and resilience.
Combine the Academy with “Developing a Positive Culture” Book
Marcella’s comprehensive book to culture change with practical frameworks, real case studies, and step-by-step implementation guidance.
“One of the BEST pieces on culture change. I wish I had read this 35 years ago!”
Michael Wolf, Principal Consultant CulturLogix
Strategic Foresight & Futures Community: prepare for possible scenarios and consult with us!
Because a great culture prepares you for change – but you also need to anticipate external change: what is emerging and changing your market, industry sector, supply chain and your region, legislation, politics, technology and societal sentiments? Develop anticipatory capabilities, prepare for possible scenarios and work with us in interactive video meetings to make your (client’s) organization future-fit!
Not Sure If This Is Right for You?
Start with the broader context of building future-ready organizations: Get the Free Strategic Foresight Videos.
Questions about organizational culture or change? Contact us or connect with Marcella on Linkedin.
