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Leadership culture is said to determine about 80% of what ultimately becomes an organization’s culture. Remember – everything you and the other leaders “DO” creates culture. The things you say have a significantly lesser effect.

We think the key to managing culture is through leaders deciding to manage their presence in the organization. This is something that seldom gets enough focus during leader group meetings, off-sites and annual reviews. Culture can be managed though that takes earnest reflection and commitment from the leaders in the organization.

Leaders set the tone.

Some CEO’s just know this intuitively while many others have to work hard at it. Regardless of how you as the CEO are, there are bound to be leaders and employees throughout the organization that do and see it differently. It is therefore critical to put an emphasis on culture that talks to multiple learning and listening styles.

Performance cultures are built by leaders who make culture and values part of the everyday language in their organizations. These are not things that are decided, posted on the wall and then forgotten.

If it can be measured, it can be managed

We have experience with a variety of tools for measuring culture. These provide leaders with a starting point for determining how things are at the start of the process, picking the low-hanging fruit and also understanding where the biggest gaps exist. Before these sort of metrics can be useful a company’s leaders must convince everyone involved that it is critical that everyone contribute by drawing a picture of reality.

Values are the language of culture and culture is required for excellence

Contact us today to find out how we can support you company’s drive toward a performance culture.