Achieving Effective Cultural Change

Course Objective
The aim of this courses is to introduce the principles and practices required to “take the people with you” when managing business change.

Course Content

• Understanding business change
• Developing and achieving strategic vision
• Organising for change using programmes and projects
• Identifying, specifying, measuring and realising benefits from business change
• Understanding the role of culture as a capability that enables attainment of business goals
• Recognising the place of cultural change in a transformation initiative
• Examining the nature of culture, how it evolves and how it manifests itself
• Defining culture through understanding of the Primary Cultural Influencers
• Measuring and benchmarking organisational culture using a cultural audit
• Establishing a target (desired) culture based upon the achievement of goals and benefits
• Determining practical actions to shift the culture from the present to the desired state
• Understanding the value systems and beliefs of groups and individuals and how these create attitudes/mindsets that influence behaviours
• Transforming group and individual attitudes and behaviours
• Embedding cultural change actions within the overall transformation initiative

PINACCA©
Underpinning the content of these courses will be PINACCA© (Principles in Applied Cultural Change & Alignment), which has been devised in order to augment Best Practice approaches and to provide a full set of guidance to those undertaking cultural change as part of a business transformation initiative. It embodies a series of processes, models and components, bound together by a proven framework of planning and control mechanisms that recognise the multifaceted nature of such change and the need for all activities to be managed in a coordinated manner, often over an extended period of time.

Delegate Profile
The course will be useful for directors, SROs (senior responsible owners), senior managers and public officers, Programme Directors/Managers and Business Change Managers. It will also be relevant to those involved in Organisational and/or Workforce Development, HR Managers and HR Business Partners/Coordinators, plus anyone seeking productivity and/or service delivery improvement through transformation initiatives.

Course Duration
This course is run over one day.