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Developing a High Performance Culture

Understand the dynamics between culture and performance, put in place a simple, powerful and proven model to analyse your organisation?s cultural strengths and gain access to the knowledge to effect valuable change in your business.

In-company only

This is a suggested outline for in-house delivery. Format, delivery and content can be tailored to suit your needs. Please call us on +44 (0)20 8371 7011 to discuss your requirements.

Overview

What makes a company successful? How can attitude, conduct and actions be moulded into a coherent, performance-enhancing corporate culture that delivers success to shareholders, stakeholders and customers?

High performing organisations are found to have the following common traits: consistent, clear strategies; the drive and ability to go above and beyond for their customers; clear, fair and talent-oriented leaders – and a high performance culture.

But what is culture and how can it be assessed? This seminar addresses these key questions and provides a unique, easy to interpret approach to understanding your culture – the Denison Model.

  •   How effective is your mission statement?
  •   How effectively do you involve your people?
  •   How adaptive is your business to market fluctuations and how does it respond to change?

The Denison model will assist you in understanding the relationship between these different dimensions and how to optimise your culture to improve organisational performance at all levels. The seminar is facilitated by Bryan Adkins from organisational culture specialists Denison Consulting and offers the opportunity to test your organisational culture against critical dimensions of high performance.

You will have the opportunity to complete a 20 person pilot of Denison’s Organisational Culture Survey and receive reports and feedback on your organisational culture included in the seminar fee.

Seminar highlights

  • Identify and understand the characteristics of organisational culture that impact performance
  • Explore the strengths and development opportunities for your organisation in achieving high performing status
  • The Denison model: gain familiarity with a framework for understanding the link between culture, leadership and performance
  • Get `hands on` experience with tools for benchmarking your organisation's culture
  • Complete a detailed survey and receive feedback on your organisation's culture

Programme

09:30

Introduction and outline of objectives for the day

09:45

Understanding culture

  • Organisational Culture:  the hidden and visible components of culture
  • Why culture matters: the Leader’s perspective
10:00

The Denison model

What counts: the four critical culture traits that impact performance

  • Mission
  • Adaptability
  • Involvement
  • Consistency

Applying the model to your organisation

  • The dynamic tensions of high-performance – how the parts of the model work with and against one another
  • Beliefs and assumptions – the core of any organisational culture
10:45

Linking culture and performance

How to join culture up with performance – specific, practical methods:

  • Growth
  • Efficiency
  • Quality
  • Employee Satisfaction
  • Innovation
  • Customer Satisfaction
11:30

Coffee

11:45

Assessing organisational culture

  • The DOCS (Denison Organisational Culture Survey)
  • Exploring data patterns
  • Introduction to data analysis
  • Common applications
  • You will carry out the survey on your own organisation and receive full analysis and feedback
12:30

Lunch

13:30

Action planning: turning data into action

Culture Case Study

Interactive Exercise: How close are you to attaining a high performance culture?

Interactive experience analysing case studies

  • Guidelines and tips for using Denison tools to drive the change process in your organisation
  • Deploying your culture pilot
15:15

Coffee

15:30

Leadership and culture

  • Linking leadership behavior and culture
  • Assessing leadership effectiveness
16:00

Leadership case study

16:45

Final Q&A

17:00

End of seminar

Designed for

Directors, line managers, organisational development specialists, senior HR professionals.

Pre-course Questionnaire

Discounts

Multiple booking discount

Recieve a 20% discount when you book more than one event, or book more than one person on the same event. Please note this discount only applies to the lesser priced booking and when all bookings are placed together.

Registered charities

You are entitled to a 25% discount on your booking if you are a registered charity. This discount will show on your invoice once your booking is submitted. You will need your charity registration number for the booking form.

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