MEDIA INFRASTRUCTURE CASE STUDY

mudança de cultura

Bringing people on the change journey

Client Context

  • Leading player in an industry undergoing transformation.

  • Executive team developed a big vision for the future.

  • Strategic challenge to move from “maintain to grow” into adjacencies, attract new clients, operate in new geographies and leverage latest technologies.

  • Rate and extent of change (including a major restructure) caused some pain points for the engineering-based, long tenured, highly distributed workforce.

  • Executive team sought help with the cultural stretch required to support the strategic shift.

Bottom line

  • Employee Engagement increased by 13 points.
  • Confidence in leadership increased by 17 points.
  • Excitement about the future increased by 12 points.
Technology company culture

Outcomes in 18 months

  • 3 culture goals of Accountability, One-Team and Curiosity embedded and amplified, acting as a bridge to the strategy.
  • Senior leaders aware of their shadow, more consistently role-modelling desired behaviours and encouraging them in others.
  • Focused improvement to increase pace and specifically make decisions faster and reduce the time spent in meetings.
  • Industry-leading response to hybrid and remote working.
  • Employees anecdotally say it “feels like a different company”. 

Workstreams

  • Culture Diagnostic alongside of strategy launch to understand future state and current state.
  • Leadership event and leadership development to increase capacity for change and the ability to deliver that change.
  • Embedded a mindset of personal responsibility “top to bottom” to have more people leaning in and supporting change.
  • Identification of symbols and systems (policies, processes) sending the strongest messages reinforcing current culture and a plan to change them.
  • Culture Community of frontline colleagues developing ideas and behavioural experiments to catalyse change.

 

Media company culture