Cultural Transformation ToolsSM
Employing a tool called the Leadership Values Assessment (LVA), we survey team members' perceptions of the organization's existing culture. This exercise takes about 15 minutes and is done individually. The results are then aggregated to determine the values of the team. The resulting values, ranked in each of three perspectives (personal, current organization and desired organization), offer great insights into how aligned or misaligned the team is with regard to values and culture. The assessment also will reveal values and behaviors (such as blame, gossip, short-term focus) that may be limiting the team's success and cohesion as a group.
Because the culture of an organization is a direct reflection of the personal consciousness of its leaders, the senior leadership team of an organization is a perfect place to start this values assessment. The values of your leaders define the organizational culture and thus your competitive advantage when it comes to attracting and retaining talented people, building and sustaining high performance and building resiliency and adaptive capacity.
The impact of a strong adaptive culture is noteworthy. A four-year study of firms in each of 20 industries, carried out by Kotter and Heskett of the Harvard Business School (Corporate Cultures and Performance, Kotter and Heskett, 1992), found that firms with a strong adaptive culture based on shared values, outperformed firms with rigid or weak cultures by a significant margin. Firms with strong adaptive cultures saw their revenues grow more than four times faster, their rate of job creation increase seven times higher and their profit performance become 750% higher than firms without adaptive cultures. As many of us already know, the "soft stuff" really does matter and contributes materially to organizational success and longevity.
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