Culture Change:
Becoming a peak-performing culture

Peak Performance® requires an enterprise culture aligned with your business strategy. Changing your culture to achieve this alignment demands a continuing process driven by a leadership commitment. SiloSmashers helps you establish this process and ensure its ongoing success.

Typically, a cultural assessment must be performed first to identify gaps between your culture and espoused values – and the gap between these and your strategic plan. With this information in hand, the work of culture change can swing into action.

A Measurable Strategy for Change

Every enterprise and culture is different. But through our experience, SiloSmashers has learned critical and repeatable steps needed to achieve the peak-performing culture you want to be. Applying proven collaboration, facilitation and communication techniques, our solutions help you:

• Embrace transformational leadership – culture change transforms every part of your enterprise; it must start from the top with the full leadership commitment
• Build alignment based on strategy – clearly define the strategic goals and benchmarks your culture must support
• Engage with stakeholders – actively involve employees, stakeholders, partners, suppliers in your change effort; their acceptance and participation is vital
• Identify clear values, cultural attributes and desired behaviors – these will become a way of life across your enterprise and must align with the strategic plan
• Combine top-down and bottom up approaches – draw on the strengths and best ideas from throughout the enterprise; build culture ownership everywhere
• Leverage your employees’ passion and belief in purpose – employees are your greatest motivational resource; light the spark
• Build on strong subcultures – use what works; learn from best performing environments in your enterprise
• Develop and implement culture performance measures – document progress toward your change objectives; identify the need for additional improvement
• Develop a clear communication strategy – this is critical; use communications to build awareness, promote buy-in and credibly motivate cultural change
• Create a roadmap to alignment – spell out all the steps needed to align culture with strategy. including impacts on other areas, such as policies, practices, innovation and more
• Measure and fine-tune your culture over time – this is an on-going process on the path to Peak Performance®