Cultural Transformation

"Culture eats strategy for breakfast" - Peter Drucker

VALUES: THE FOUNDATION OF CULTURE

When your people thrive, your organization thrives.

Which is why building your optimal culture begins with understanding the values at the root of it. Values – conscious or unconscious – are the motivation for every decision made or action taken. Employees have their own values when they walk in the door, and they are influenced everyday by the values they experience in your organization. Understanding the values currently at play is essential to put your wanted culture into action.

Whether by Edward Deming, or Peter Drucker, the phrase "You can't manage what you can't measure" rings true when organizational values, and the alignment of those values to the personal values of your team, is considered. This is where our approach is uniquely effective.

Herronton has been using the Barrett Model to assess cultural values, leadership values, and individual values and provide a measurable path to support organizations in building extraordinary cultures!

The Barrett Model is based on the work of Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and has been supported by recent academic research. The Barrett Model brings over 20 years of data and experience with over 20 million assessments conducted in 94 countries and 60 languages.

Kouzes and Posner (2002) state their research confirms that; “firms with a strong corporate culture based on a foundation of shared values outperform other firms by a huge margin” (p.80).

Kouzes and Posner further describe that successful companies can have quite different values but the common factor is that they all have a very strong “core ideology” (p. 81), or a well-understood set of shared values. These value differentiators are what provide separation, distinction and competitive value in the marketplace.

Kouzes and Posner assert that “the source of sustained competitive advantage for organizations begins with a values-based foundation” (p. 81).