Description
The Challenge with Building a High-Performance Culture
Changing or improving a culture in an organization is not easy. Often, initiatives to improve culture fail because the scope was too big from the start – they become too costly, too time intensive and weren’t connected to strategy. As a result, your teams can often become cynical and unreceptive to the subject of culture. Unfortunately, when culture doesn’t grow by design, it grows by default.
Our approach is radically different.
It starts with understanding that culture doesn’t exist across an organization, it exists on teams. For this reason, our goal is to equip your people leaders with the insight and skills to take ownership and build culture on their own team. It’s a powerful thing when people leaders have agency to build culture on their teams.
Culture is not created by choosing a set of values that people rarely remember; instead, it is built by what happens in difficult, pressure-filled moments, what we call the Last 8%. Our approach equips your managers to see difficult situations differently – not as something to avoid, but as an opportunity to create culture on their team. Our systematic approach typically takes six months, allowing you to build your culture in months, not years.
Our approach establishes a high-performance, Last 8% culture built on High Connection and High Courage, owned by each team leader. The result? People deliver results and stay because their needs are being met, they are more emotionally
Last 8% Culture Program – Half Day Workshop
Culture workshop:
In this highly interactive session focuses on building a high-performance culture to elevate the organization to the next level of performance and execution. It includes a blend of insights and tools to help your leaders learn how to build a Last 8% Culture on their own teams. In this session, you leaders will:
- Discuss current and aspirational culture of their team.
- Review the results of the Last 8% Culture assessment to see where their strengths are and opportunities to improve.
- Learn the key pillars of a high-performing culture. – Connection and Courage
- Understand how to build a culture that boosts performance and supports the evolving strategy.
- Establish commitment to a long-term focus on Last 8% Culture.
- Outline the role of each senior leader to own, assess and model culture on their own team.
Includes:
- 3-4 hour workshop
- Pre-call with key stakeholders to understand the audience and align content with expected outcomes.
- Pre-work Last 8% Culture assessment
- Post-Call to collect feedback and discuss sustainment.
Interested in learning more? Watch this Last 8% Culture Case Study!
Methods
What is a Last 8% Culture?
A Last 8% culture is a culture of high-performance, defined as having High Connection and High Courage. The transformation to a Last 8% culture will create a culture where people are more engaged, give more discretionary effort and are more emotionally committed to the organization. It is a culture that is highly accountable, has a high level of care, and produces better work and stronger results.