Company culture has become such an important part of a company’s identity. With 94% of executives believing that a distinct workplace culture is important to business success, culture has become a widespread high-priority. However, your business’ success doesn’t rely solely on building that culture, you need to begin operationalizing the internal processes that support and sustain an effective company culture over time. It’s time to bring in culture operations specialists.
When people think of company culture they typically think of ping pong tables in the common room, team happy hours, and on-tap kombucha in the kitchen. Although these added perks are fun and exciting in a work environment, they do not define culture for companies. Culture is about inspiring innovation and fostering community within your company. Culture isn’t optional, it’s essential to the success of your business.
Leadership may define culture as the daily execution of the purpose and values of the company. While those are essential to the backbone of your organization, they often have not been operationalized in ways that impact everyday life for your employees.
Operationalizing culture means integrating your company’s purpose into yours and your employees’ everyday life.
So, how exactly do you operationalize culture?
Operationalizing culture involves a tactical and strategic improvement of your company’s processes and infrastructure. At Culture Works, we work to integrate your purpose into everything you do as a company. It’s not enough to post a sign outlining the company’s purpose, it’s vital that you show everyone by example how to live those values.
Our teams craft specific plans to cater to your company’s needs. Through our Quarterly Game Plans, we create a roadmap for producing results. Our QGPs address challenges in the workplace and how to overcome them. One of the many ways we begin our engagements is with the variety of Assessments, we offer. Depending on your company’s specific needs, these assessments guide your GamePlan.
With your Quarterly Game Plan in place, we can effectively partner with your HR department to implement it. This implementation process guides all of your processes to move in the right direction, utilizing incremental strategic shifts.
Repeatable, lasting processes that improve culture and HR, increase retention and engagement and make your recruiting efforts more effective. You will see impactful HR infrastructure upgrades and an alignment of culture and business goals.
With improved processes and procedures you will also see greater employee buy-in and an improvement in morale. Because of this, you will see your employees more motivated and excited about your company and their work. Employees stay with companies where they feel engaged, appreciated, and supported and new employees are actively seeing those elements in their next position!
Want to start operationalizing your culture to achieve greater growth and success for your company? Call us today to learn more about how Culture Works can help your business!