Cultural Handprinting
Cultural handprints reveal your company culture. Where is your company culture at?
Aligned company culture equals profitability. Mis-aligned culture breeds bottlenecks and failure.
The handprints below indicate various degrees of cultural alignment in companies.
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Characteristics of poorly aligned company culture:
Culture without alignment
Very poor profitability.
Uninvolved and unwilling staff.
Cold and clinical management.
Surrendered staff with low activation.
Low accountability levels with blame symptoms.
Evident friction between
1. vision and outcome
2. people and people
3. people and process
Characteristics of a partially aligned company culture :
Culture with partial alignment
Average profitability.
Co-operative but not innovative staff.
Luke warm management who meet minimum targets.
Partly engaged staff with low activation.
Occasional accountability.
Excessive levels of overtime and stress.
Evidence of misunderstanding between:
1. vision and outcome,
2. people and people,
3. people and process.
Characteristics of an aligned company culture:
Aligned company culture = brilliance
High profitability.
Inspired and engaged staff.
Highly innovative management who exceed targets.
Highly engaged staff with self-owned activation.
Willing accountability.
Minimal overtime and healthy degrees of problem solving.
High positive correlations between:
1. vision and outcome
2. people and people
3. people and process
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