Culture Shaping

Culture Shaping
Thriving organizational culture accelerates performance

In a recent global survey of 500 CEOs, 82% said they'd focused on organizational culture as a key priority in the past three years, and 59% of those said they'd completely met or exceeded their goals.

It’s clear that organizational culture plays a decisive role in helping businesses adapt to changing times in the hybrid working environment—and companies that get culture right typically enjoy accelerated performance and a strong competitive advantage.

Our organizational culture shaping practice is built to inspire organizations, helping them shape their future by shaping their cultures. Rooted in the pioneering work of Senn Delaney, our work employs proprietary data insights and tools to achieve the following:

  • Align and inspire purposeful leaders
  • Spark personal insight and change
  • Drive the adoption of new mindsets and behaviors
  • Integrate the culture into all systems and processes

Mindsets & Behaviors: Curiosity and Change

Mindsets & Behaviors: Building Ownership on Your Teams
We all know that change is hard. While innovation is the lifeblood for growth in organizations, our many negative experiences with change often limit our openness to new ideas. Even with the best of intentions, by the time we become leaders of an organization, our accumulated expertise and experiences can take an unconscious toll on our ability to lead from a place of curiosity and openness. However, by becoming aware of our less effective thought habits and beliefs, we can challenge the way we think and ultimately show up as better role models for our teams.

Mindsets & Behaviors: Building Ownership on Your Teams

Mindsets & Behaviors: Building Ownership on Your Teams Playbook
We have identified “microbehaviors” – small, often unconscious actions and attitudes – that have a macro impact on the culture and performance of teams. These microbehaviors are logical and often well intended, but they can have unintended consequences. Left unchecked, they can strip your team of a sense of ownership and significantly affect the performance and growth of your people. Our playbook walks through a typical team scenario to showcase how you can recognize these dynamics in the moment and what you can adjust to create significant impacts.

Digital Culture Playbook
 

Digital Culture Playbook
Digital is another, often key component of an organization’s strategy. A culture needs to be shaped to embrace and accelerate digital and innovation as crucial elements of an organization’s future, but also to embrace, shape, and reinforce related priorities, such as sustainability, diversity, and simplicity. Your culture can accelerate digital transformation and innovation more broadly through these four principles of culture shaping: purposeful leadership, personal change, broad engagement, and systemic alignment.
A new book From businessfourzero

Every Team Actually Doing Business Better

A business on a mission is a truly remarkable thing. This new book helps businesses run through walls and roadblocks to deliver their purpose and strategy, which makes their commercial and societal gains enormous. Very few businesses get anywhere near that level. Particularly now with most struggling to adapt to unprecedented change in the world around them.

Aligning culture with the bottom line

Our second survey of CEOs around the world underscores the deep links leaders see between culture and financial performance.

Unlock the competitive advantage of a disability-inclusive workforce

How leaders can elevate their businesses with inclusive hiring and empowering an under-represented talent pool

New Book

Future-Focused:
Shape Your Culture.
Shape Your Future.

Culture is a drumbeat that runs through an organization. Find out from several inspirational CEOs what impact culture has on employees, customers, stakeholders, and performance today and in foreseeable tomorrows.

Culture Survey

Aligning Culture with the Bottom Line: How Companies Can Accelerate Progress

A survey of 500 CEOs from around the world shows that most know how much culture matters. But one group links culture and strategy and puts people first—and has double the revenue growth of others.

Inspiring Leaders

The crucial link between culture and leadership

David Hui, leader of the Heidrick & Struggles Hong Kong CEO & Board Practice, talks with CEO George Hongchoy about Link REIT’s culture transformation story.

The four principles of culture

Our work gives leadership teams the skills they need to instill a culture that drives sustainable high performance

Featured Insights

Digital Leadership

Leading through digital transformations: A conversation with Sophia Velastegui, chief product officer at Aptiv and member of the AI Advisory Committee for National Science Foundation

Sophia Velastegui, chief product officer at Aptiv, shares her advice for leaders on how to build new technologies into both current operations and new business models.
Adam Howe
Human Resources Officers

Human resources focus: Four priorities for HR leaders to empower a hybrid model and culture

Interviews with eight HR leaders show how they are addressing four topics key to making hybrid models succeed.
Dorothy Badie
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Christina Cary
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Steven Krupp
Industrial Tech

Fostering a culture of innovation in industrial tech: An interview with The Heraeus Group’s Steffen Metzger

Steffen Metzger, a member of the group management committee at The Heraeus Group, discusses the importance of authenticity, inclusiveness, and empathy in building a culture of innovation.
Dr. Roman Wecker
Health Tech

Culture’s impact on recruitment and retention in the healthcare ecosystem: A conversation with John Shagoury, president and CEO at IntelyCare

John Shagoury, president and CEO at healthcare workforce management company IntelyCare, discusses the importance of culture to retention and recruitment and shares what challenges he anticipates for the health tech talent market.
Joshua M. Clarke
Meet our leadership
Rose Gailey
Global Leader, Americas
Tonny Loh
Regional Leader, APAC
Dustin Seale
Regional Leader, Europe

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