CULTURE LEADERSHIP

What is culture leadership?

Culture leadership refers to a set of strategies, wherein individuals within an organisation are empowered to create and maintain a positive shared culture. This can be done in a variety of ways, but leading by example and interacting with others in a thoughtful, considerate manner that is consistent with the culture you want to promote are essential components.

However, culture leadership doesn’t have to be driven exclusively by C-suite executives and people managers — cultural thought leaders can exist and be developed throughout your organisation. At Walking the Talk, we encourage our clients to look for examples of cultural leadership at every level, and recognise positive examples of where this is already being implemented. 

Culture leadership may include, but is not limited to:

• Facilitating open and honest communication;
• Providing opportunities for every individual to share feedback and ideas;
• Fostering a shared growth mindset in your organisation;
• A focus on knowledge sharing and building each employee’s unique skillset;
• Treating each person in your organisation with mutual respect and understanding;
• Investing in your current staff, to improve retention, engagement, and overall satisfaction.

Our Culture Leadership Solutions

To deliver our culture leadership consultancy solutions, we combine our People Manager Activation approach, alongside targeted training with leaders who may not be in people management roles, but still hold the position of leaders within the organisation. 

We follow our tried and tested four-stage approach to implement positive cultural change, with a specific focus on culture leadership. Our bespoke strategies can help you to develop culture role models to maintain the culture of sharing and growth that we help organisations to create.

Our cultural leadership solution follows four main steps:

 1. Assess the current leadership climate

Our team of expert consultants will work alongside you, and leaders within your business, to identify the strengths and limitations of the current organisational culture.

2. Create actionable plans to improve

Based on our findings, we will help you to define your goals, and build strategies that will ensure they are met. Whether you want to improve employee engagement, or give your leaders ways to build better communication within your organisation, we’ve got you covered.

 3. Train your business leaders to become culture role models

We will deliver training and guidance to current leaders and other members within your organisation, helping to develop them into cultural role models, capable of creating and maintaining positive change at every level. 

4. Maximise participation and apply cultural leadership strategies

Once we deliver our training, the support doesn’t end there. We will follow up with your team to see how well strategies are being implemented, and what challenges they may be facing. With our continued assistance, we are proud to have helped a number of our clients to transform their organisational culture for the better.

Organisational culture and leadership

Although your organisational culture doesn’t solely rely on senior leadership, they will play an important role in implementing the cultural leadership strategies we’ve outlined above. Although each employee or member of your organisation plays a vital part, organisational change and culture is often driven by leadership and how well they implement our cultural leadership programme. 

For more information on how to gain buy-in from your senior leadership team, and implement our tried-and-tested cultural transformation strategies, you may like to learn more about our Leading by Example programme, and People Manager Activation. The latter will help you to transform your existing senior leadership into champions for a better organisational culture which drives both productivity and employee engagement.

Why is culture leadership important for organisations?

There are a number of benefits that our clients have found when implementing our culture leadership programme. Here are just a few:

• Higher levels of trust in leadership, resulting in more open and honest communication.
• Better employee engagement and retention.
• Improved knowledge-sharing and collaboration between organisation members.
• Employees report higher levels of satisfaction and contentment at work.
• Better alignment with the overall goals of the organisation.

Why should I use Walking the Talk culture solutions?

Our cultural transformation and culture leadership solutions have helped a wide range of clients to improve their day-to-day operations, and invest in their members. For real-life from industries that we have worked with, including Financial Services, IT Services, and more, you can visit our Case Studies page. Or, to find out what our existing clients say about it, you may also like to browse our collection of Testimonials from existing customers.

To find out how our Walking the Talk corporate culture consultants can help you to transform your organisation, you can make and enquiry via our dedicated contact page. A member of the team will be in touch shortly afterwards to discuss your goals, and what we can do to help you to achieve them.