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Leading with Values: An Organizational Culture Assessment and Leadership Development Program

It is widely accepted that the culture or climate of an organization, reflected in its operational values, behaviors and processes, is a major contributor to business sustainability and long-term profitability.  In fact, 60-80% of shareholder value is based on intangibles, the most significant of which is corporate culture.  Organizational leaders mold and model the culture’s values, and create either a positive or a hampered work culture.  In a positive values-based work environment, employees’ hearts, minds and spirits are engaged in the organization’s purpose and vision, and they are liberated to bring their whole selves to work. Values-based leadership sets the stage for organizations to thrive.

Brio Leadership can help you re-discover your cultural values, train and coach your leaders and help your organization reach its full potential.

Companies that develop values-based leadership to match the demands of the twenty-first century workplace are shown to have:

  • Higher profitability
  • Greater longevity as a viable enterprise
  • Lower turnover rates among valued employees
  • Engaged workers who are up to 10 times more productive than non-engaged workers
  • More innovation and creativity in products, services and processes

The Brio Leadership team can help you attain many of these results through its Culture Assessment and Leadership Development engagement, which can follow these steps:

  1. Brio Leadership begins the engagement by conducting a Cultural Values Assessment from the Barrett Values Centre. This easy-to-administer and powerful assessment asks each person to identify his or her personal values, the current cultural values and desired cultural values. The Cultural Values Assessment measures the intangible aspects of organization culture, making them visible through many charts and graphs.
  2. To de-brief management and other work groups after the Cultural Values Assessment, we conduct a seminar to present the results and explore possible next steps to help the organization thrive.
  3. Together with the client, we identify next steps, which can include mission/vision/values statement definition or revision, a business assessment, facilitating a strategic direction planning session, and developing objectives and metrics that support the organization’s values.
  4. We create a customized program of training and one-on-one executive coaching in which we introduce new concepts and help people develop needed skills in their daily work lives.
  5. We conclude the engagement with a post-project re-assessment and report improvements as measured against the baseline.

For a complimentary Individual Values Assessment, please contact us at 817-577-7030 or complete our contact form. 

 

Mergers and Acquisition Assistance

Up to 70% of mergers and acquisitions fail to create value as anticipated by the strategists of the transaction.  Typically the cause of failure is the friction between the two company’s cultures.  Without a plan to transform the culture into a wholly new one that represents the best of both companies, employees often fall prey to inter-fighting and domination by the acquiring entity. 

How can you tell if two companies are a good fit for each other? Assessing the culture of the two companies as part of the due diligence process helps you view data that will predict the probability for success.  The myriad charts and graphs that are produced from the Cultural Transformation Tools allows executives to analyze and measure how similar or dissimilar the cultures are.  More importantly, the reports allow executives to identify the best values and create an implementation plan that includes cultural transformation.  The newly formed entity can consciously create and instill core values that incorporate elements of both companies.

Brio Leadership can help you assess the cultures of the pre-merger organizations.  For more information, call us today at 817-577-7030 or complete our contact form.