Great cultures don’t just happen. They take effort and skill.
Populii helps you create, nurture, and sustain a healthy organizational culture through the lens of your people.
The importance of organizational culture is clear. Seriously, Google it. 300M webpages can’t all be wrong.
So, why is developing a healthy culture so hard?
Most “culture change” initiatives fail to deliver because they are viewed as a singular task or as moving from one static state to another.
Culture is dynamic and constantly evolving and has a direct impact on business outcomes. Developing a healthy culture requires critical skills to manage and continuously shape a preferred culture.
Our approach is rooted in our belief that you start with where you want to go, not where you are today.
Where you want to go is your desired operating culture, it is the benchmark and the lens from which you define your culture shaping journey. In fact, it is through this future state lens that you assess your current culture, so you don’t spend excess time analysing a place you may not want to be and maximize your efforts towards where you want to go. This approach accelerates the “change process” and removes any bias or limitations you might encounter looking only at your existing culture state.
Our approach is supported by four pillars, explore each below.
Our approach is about the individual.
We believe every individual impacts culture. That means every individual needs a common understanding of culture and the ability to recognize their individual impact. We provide each individual with that understanding, along with the knowledge to manage the impact.
Our approach is about internal Guides.
We believe you need to have designated internal guides with a deeper set of skills and knowledge who can manage the culture shaping journey. That journey starts with developing the desired optimal culture and designing the ongoing navigation. We provide those Guides with that heightened skillset
Our approach is about the journey.
We believe the journey towards your optimal culture is the essence of culture shaping. Embedding the right markers and having the right compass will help keep your journey on course and help the Guides to make the right adjustments. Explicit, guided effort will always be required to keep your organization on course.
Our approach is about people.
People must always be at the core. How they reflect and influence culture. How they learn from one another. How they are inspired by leadership. How they are nurtured in their approach to work. How they feel when they are getting ready for work.
We recognize that you may be at any stage of your culture’s evolution.
Our services have flexible entry points that respond to your organization’s level of culture maturity. Whether you are just beginning to harness culture, re-energizing your existing journey, re-focusing where you are going, or simply want to measure progress, we can add fuel to your journey.
Select the play button on the video below to learn more about our approach to culture and what it means for your organization.
Populii empowers organizations with culture-shaping solutions designed to align workplace values, develop leaders, improve employee engagement, and drive long-term success.
Build individual skills that shape and sustain workplace culture to enable the internal organizational capability which yields the benefits of a healthy culture.
Provide quick and actionable insights into potential employee culture fit and existing employee perceptions of culture evolution.
Try one of our tools at zero cost – Culture Tag
One of the Five Tenents of Culture shaping is to “make culture memorable”. One of the easiest ways to do that is to create an acronym from key words that describe your culture. Culture Tag lets you play with different terms and come up with acronyms you can use to make your culture memorable. Select the image to give it a try!
