Culture Transformation Planning
A three-month program for senior teams who want to clarify their culture objectives, dive into the culture diagnostic and confirm the right shifts to move their culture forward.
Who it’s for
Senior teams who are responsible for driving the culture of their organisation or team to achieve specific organisational objectives.
Problems it solves
Most strategy work never asks the question: do we have the culture we need to execute this strategy? If the answer is no, your strategy on a page is just a nicely formatted piece of paper.
Most culture work never asks the question: culture transformation in the service of what? If you’re not working towards a specific set of organisational objectives, your culture transformation efforts might make some of your people feel better (which is always nice) but almost certainly won’t accelerate the execution of your strategy and lead to better performance, whatever that means for you.
If you don’t know what problem you’re solving, your culture transformation initiatives will be fire, aim, ready.
What will it achieve
The rate of change keeps accelerating. Without some clarity about what we’re trying to achieve and what’s important as we travel together, we’re simply not going to be able to perform. That’s why creating and maintaining the right culture has become an essential focus for all senior leaders and their teams.
Your culture is evolving right now whether you’re actively managing it or not. If it’s happening by accident, now’s the time to make it deliberate. The upside potential is enormous. If you get it right, your people will unite with passion to perform and everything will be faster, easier and more fun.
How it works
This three-month program of six, two-hour workshops can be run face to face or online to allow your team to work through a set of logical steps to clarify why transform, where you’re starting from, where you want to get to, what’s most important to tackle first and how you might start to make those shifts.
Setting Objectives
Let’s start here: what do we hope our culture transformation will achieve in terms of organisational objectives? Is it more revenue? Less risk? Better quality? Do we all agree on which of these objectives are the most important?
Session 1: Organisational objectives
Culture Diagnostics and Priorities
Once we know what we’re trying to achieve, let’s start plotting our course:
Session 2: Where are we starting from, what is and isn’t working for us?
Session 3: Where do we want to go, what shifts do we need to make?
Session 4: Which of these shifts is most important? Where will we start?
Action Planning
The final two sessions explore what we’re already doing that we can tweak, what we might stop doing and what we can add, in a way that is integrated with our day to day activity, not a parallel, separate ‘culture’ program.
Session 5: How might we start to make the most important shifts?
Session 6: What’s missing? What needs more work?
What Fiona's clients say…
“I worked closely with Fiona Robertson leading a major capability and people change journey at NAB. Fiona is passionate about enabling sustainable culture change and is able to engage and inspire leaders and colleagues to aim high and deliver results in practical value-adding ways for customers. An intensely values driven leader and change agent, Fiona has the commitment, conviction and authenticity to spark and sustain meaningful change aligned with an organisation’s strategy.”
Paul Freeman, CEO, Medfin Finance
“Fiona facilitated some important sessions with my team to help us build a more trusting and empathetic culture. These made a significant difference immediately which increased over time. I subsequently worked with Fiona 1 on 1 to help embed the changes we started in the team sessions and found it tremendously valuable. Through the unpacking of a personal profile I was able to identify where preferences towards detail and control were stifling my team's growth and my ability to delegate. The changes I’ve made have empowered them and given me more time to think.”
Michael Hall, Head of Open Programs at AGSM
Want to discuss how Fiona can assist you?
If you would like to schedule a conversation with Fiona to discuss further, please email Chloe at chloe@fionarobertson.com to arrange a suitable time that works for you.