Breaking out of the Culture Trap
Creating a for-purpose culture
Culture is not ‘set’ by those with the most power in an organisation – culture is what is ‘normal’ around here. They are the behaviours and beliefs of everyone, every day.
Organisations often get stuck in a ‘culture trap’ by believing culture is not about ‘me’, it is about ‘them’ – other people, particularly senior leadership. However, those who engage in the day-to-day behaviours of culture are the people who ‘live the culture’.
This is where culture is established. While those most senior in an organisation have significant influence, it is the everyday leadership of those ‘on the floor’ who cast the most influential leadership shadow.
This is you.
To break out of the culture trap, leaders must consider carefully and deliberately what sort of culture they want in their team and then align their leadership shadow to deliberately ensure that values are embedded into the team culture.
This program is focused on giving leaders the tools to embed positive values and behaviours in their team to build a strong culture.
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As a result of attending this program, participants will:
Build the group’s adaptive capacity
Develop dynamic capabilities in the group
Increase levels of change readiness
Increase a group’s collective resilience to adversity
Develop strategies to distribute leadership
capacities and capabilities across the group
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Self-awareness
Social mastery: leading group processes, service orientation, interpersonal savvy
Emotional and social intelligence
Leadership shadow
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1-day face-to-face or virtual workshop
Facilitator-led knowledge transfer
Small and large group discussion
Practical application: case study
Self-assessment: Schwartz Portrait Values Questionnaire
Who should attend?
This program is designed for participants at all levels who wish to develop a strong team culture.
Harnessing the Power of ‘We’
Building a cohesive team culture
To be effective and achieve great things, members of a team need to be bound together and see themselves as a common ‘we.’
This sense of ‘we-ness’ is essential, and creating it is the work of leadership – without it, even the most talented teams can falter without the right conditions for success.
Team cohesion is premised on team members’ belief that identification and affiliation with a group is important and meaningful to them. This shared belief leads to higher levels of work satisfaction, organisational citizenship, retention, and better team outcomes.
Leadership is central to building this sense of shared group identity. Leaders contribute to the sense of psychological safety in a team, the group’s commitment to the mission and cause, the group’s engagement in the work, and the sense of purpose to the team.
Harnessing the Power of ‘We’ acknowledges that the work of leadership is about building the capacity of the group rather than building dependency on the leader.
During this one-day program, leaders will be taught to mobilise a cohesive group to tackle difficult problems and wield the power of many to achieve great outcomes.
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As a result of attending this program, participants will:
Consider their impact on an environment of psychosocial safety
Orient group members to mission and a build a common purpose
Increase a sense of loyalty to group members
Align behaviours and mindsets of group members to create group norms
● Facilitate divergence and convergence in the group to make progress on tough issues
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Psychosocial Safety
Affective and Normative Commitment
Engagement and Motivation
Social Identity Theory
Leader-Member Exchange Theory
Systems thinking
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1-day face-to-face or virtual workshop
Facilitator-led knowledge transfer
Small and large group discussion
Practical application: Transfer to workplace
Case-in-Point Methodology
Who should attend?
All leaders/managers of teams.
“Max went above and beyond in caring about each of us and always being open and approachable.
I’m so grateful for your willingness to witness me and to be a support as I came face to face with my shadow and worked out how to be the best leader I can be.
It was way more than I expected and you’re amazing.
Thank you for being you.”
-Assistant Director, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet
Culture Eats Change for Breakfast
Creating a strong adaptive culture
Is your team going through a branch restructure?
Are you staring down the barrel of a Machinery of Government (MOG)?
Adjusting to a new reform agenda?
Is your team experiencing change fatigue?
Peter Drucker highlighted an undeniable truth when he said, ‘Culture eats strategy for breakfast’. Even the best laid plans falter when the people who must execute them are not on board. However, a strong and adaptable culture that is ripe for change assures a change strategy’s success.
Change can only happen when people are ready for it and open to it – they must be ripe to take on the difficult work of change. Therefore, a core leadership capability is the ability to prepare a group of people to engage in change – to make them ripe. Without ripeness, culture will eat change for breakfast.
Culture Eats Change for Breakfast is focused on creating cultural norms that enable change to occur. It is about preparing a team with a culture that has high levels of fitness and change readiness.
This program, it is about creating an ‘adaptive space’ where change can occur and intentionally builds the group’s resilience and capacity to tackle the turbulence of their environment.
This one-day program enables leaders to ripen their culture for change and prepare their people for tackling difficult challenges. This is a program about preparing to succeed before jumping blindly into change – it is a program that ensures your important change doesn’t get eaten for breakfast.
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As a result of attending this program, participants will:
Build the group’s adaptive capacity
Develop dynamic capabilities in the group
Increase levels of change readiness
Increase a group’s collective resilience to adversity
Develop strategies to distribute leadership capacities and capabilities across the group
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Resilience
Adaptive Capacity
Change Readiness
Dynamic capabilities
Adaptive space
Distributed Leadership
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1-day face-to-face or virtual workshop
Facilitator-led knowledge transfer
Small and large group discussion
Practical application: enabling change initiative
Case-in-Point Methodology
Who should attend?
Leaders who wish to develop the capacity of their teams and workforce.
You and your Team Leaders are one step away from breaking new ground in Team Performance, Culture and Authenticity.
Join us for a Workplace Culture workshop.
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