Cultivate new ways of working to bring about the desired change

We cannot force or expect changes in culture through top down initiatives like plants cannot be forced to grow.  We can only nurture with the right environment, remove the weeds and old leaves for new ones to grow. People change when drive and capability exceed resistance. 

We work with leaders to carefully design formal and informal dialogues, workshops, highlight role models to celebrate the desired behaviours and deter undesirable ones through education. We identify patterns of conscious and unconscious behaviours and conduct authentic discussions to playback to its members. 

We identify and mobilise change champions to advocate new ways of working and encourage experimentation through incremental change to build conducive work platforms for a more effective culture to evolve sustainably. 

Some of the methods we use to create these changes:

• Process Consulting - where we examine not just the tasks but the way we go about achieving the tasks.  Using shadow leader, different positional perceptions, we find better ways of doing things and different solutions.   This is useful for teams which are too focused on task and blindsided with the people aspect. 

• Polarity Management - identify significant paradoxes in the group to create space to ease conflicts and tensions, and to see them differently to create new possibilities.  This is effective to highlight silo mentalities and black or white thinking to open up perspectives. 

• Time to Think - create a system for diverse cultures to think and speak collaboratively.  This is particularly useful for some teams who may find it tough to speak up or others who can't really pause to listen.