Cultural Mapping

Taking stock on the way to StrAgility

Your challenge

[Translate to Englisch:] Baum schnitt auf blauem Hintergrund mit Personenwürfel

Culture is on everyone’s minds – and not only because “it eats strategy for breakfast” in the words of Peter Drucker. Most companies have defined values that apply to everyone and that are (meant to be) exemplified by managers.

But how exactly can you track whether these values are really lived out and exemplified by managers? Are they even still the values that everyone can agree on together? Are we on the right track in our cultural change or cultural evolution? And most importantly: how can culture be measured?

…you can only manage what you measure…

Our solution

[Translate to Englisch:] Mann mit Schutzhelm vor einer Stadt

Cultural fit is already a central component of every search at artec. The elementary question of what the future manager should contribute to the cultural change of your company and whether they are capable of doing so is something we work out for you in the search process.

The artec Corporate Culture Workshop also offers you the opportunity to drill deeper into the neuralgic points where you define the long-term orientation and inspiration for your company and your team. The method kit contains associative procedures for determining the cultural status quo and the target culture. Questionnaires that allow you and selected key players in your organization to map out where you are in your cultural development will help you take concrete follow-up action and keep a firm grip on the reins of your corporate culture management and set the direction.

[Translate to Englisch:] Frau mit Megafon

…if you’re not managing your culture, somebody else is…

A culture assessment includes four phases

Target definition
- Definition of project targets and expectations as well as tools and milestones
- Discussion of the status with regard to vision, mission statement, culture, leadership, performance, and team
- Selection of core teams and the participants:
  - Orxestra^© Leadership & Culture Cards Assessment
  - Participant StrAgility Assessment
- Information event with involvement of participants
Direction setting and top-down assessment
- Core team determined:
  - Vision, mission
  - Guiding principle
  - Values & Purpose
- Tools
  - Culture Cards
  - What sort of Team is this? Online questionnaire
Optional
- Why do you stay?
  Assessment → talent retention, what binds top performers to the company?
StrAgility Assessment
- StrAgility Online Questionnaire: Core team and all participants
- Evaluation of the results
- Creation of individual and bundled result reports
- Meeting with core team to assess:
  - Facts, finding, conclusions, and recommendations
- Decision of who will receive which results, including the action guidelines
Feedback and implementation
- Presentation of the results to a pre-determined group of participants
- Decision on measures of action
- Further culture workshop in order to rank and prioritize action items
- Decision on action items, timeline, milestones, and responsibility
- Decision and communication

Concrete examples from workshops and assessments

Interested?

Try out the free culture questionnaire right here: https://www.transearch.com/culture-assessment.