Blog Post

We’ve always envisioned Populii as a way to democratise any organization being able to harness organizational culture – regardless of size or structure. You don’t necessarily need to pay for consulting support or decades of organizational development experience. With Populii by your side, you can learn a clear definition of culture and an actionable understanding of the levers you can pull to shape culture. Any organization, on their own, can define an optimal target culture and start the journey to get there as well as protect what you want to keep.

You are empowered! You can do it! How noble.

Only, that makes an assumption about the current culture of your organization. Whoops.

• Is your culture geared towards self-directed learning and skill development?
• Can collaboration and alignment be created if everyone is learning individually?
• Who’s responsible if it doesn’t come out as expected?
• What does success look like in your organization?

So, how should you get started on your culture shaping journey? We think the best approach is a hybrid – self-directed content to build knowledge supported by a facilitated experience that embeds it and embraces our model.

Consider the foundational topic of “Deconstructing Culture” that gets everyone on the same page of what culture is and Engineering Culture’s module “Making Culture Personal” that enables every employee to participate in culture shaping. The module embraces some self-chosen work habits within their organization’s culture shaping journey. This creates broad internal engagement supported by self-directed knowledge building and facilitated action development.

But really, that makes some assumptions about where you are in your journey to harness culture and what your existing culture can support. So we’ve created partnerships that can support any approach – completely self-directed, hybrid, facilitated, supported or driven by a consultant.

Not sure how to get started? Reach out, we can help you decide (HINT: your current culture is going to guide you to the answer!).