The goal of organizational development is to increase the long-term health and performance of an organization, while enriching the lives of its employees. Organizational development targets the organization's culture, including systems, processes, and rewards. By bringing out the best in their employees, organizations can reach optimal effectiveness and increase profits.
TLS emphasizes the use of cultural surveys as one of the effective methods used in organizational development. It is increasingly understood by effective leaders that decisions are made and actions are taken within the context of a culture. Cultural surveys provide the tools to quantify certain elements that can lead to better decisions and more effective actions in an organization.
Cultural Surveys consist of a series of structured questions formulated to provide responses in both quantitative and qualitative formats. The questions can be used to identify the values, beliefs and perceptions of employees in an organization that are otherwise difficult or impossible to assess. The survey may seek to establish employee perceptions regarding the company in a broad sense, or may be focused on a specific area of interest. In all instances the survey provides valuable insights into an organization, can assist in determining where to allocate resources, and can help management to monitor changes in culture and perceptions over time.
TLS will work with your organization to develop and test assumptions about the cultural characteristics of your organization and then map out a strategy that will improve organizational effectiveness.
A high-performance culture is critical for building employee commitment and enthusiasm, acting with speed and flexibility and driving and sustaining growth. It is characterized by:
- A clear, compelling, communicated corporate purpose to shape business decisions, generate customer loyalty and inspire employee passion and maximum contribution
- Shared organizational values that guide people as well as influence business practices and decisions as the organization delivers on its promises to all its constituents
- An environment that encourages individual ownership of both the organization?s bottom-line results and its cultural foundation.
Our experienced organizational culture development consultants can meet you where you are ? whether you are trying to radically redefine your culture, leverage your existing culture to survive these tumultous times, sustain the cultural underpinnings that have brought unprecedented success or fall somewhere in between. As appropriate, we?ll determine a custom corporate culture development strategy and provide tools for:
- Diagnosing and measuring your culture?s strengths and weaknesses ? and determine how it needs to change.
- Ensuring your senior team shares a clear purpose, defined organizational values and ambitious business strategy to shape your culture.
- Equipping leaders at all levels to communicate, model and inspire commitment to your strategic priorities and the values that drive a high-performance culture.
- Increasing the effectiveness of individual leaders as change agents through executive coaching.
