Learning organizations have predictable problems when it comes to instilling a culture that encourages self-development and lifelong learning in a large community of learners that are continuously changing. The continuous movement of people into and from the organization makes it necessary to provide a method that:
- Instills lifelong and necessary motivation, virtues, values and behavioural skills in learners.
- Creates a space for productive co-operative learning and the behaviours.
- Provides learners with the kinds of skills that are never explicitly taught in school. These skills include thinking skills, learning HOW to learn, group dynamics, the biology and neuroscience of creativity, co-operation and cultural innovation.
- Encourages feedback, reflection and thinking around how values are lived at the individual and organizational level.
The intervention engages managing, technical, academic, administration teams and learners at the level of the organization (big picture, long-term view) and individual participants in a co-operative process of conscious cultural innovation and creation.
The story of culture and values in your organization needs to be led both consciously and creatively into the future and our Cultural Innovation approach is designed to enable this outcome.
Cultural Innovation Framework (CIF) Overview
This CIF includes a workshop and multimedia elements designed to support activities and conversations that stimulate and reflect appropriate values and behaviours at the organization going forward.
We create a safe space for reflection, feedback, learning and change that allows participants to experience how their own values, behaviours and day-to-day interactions form the fundamentals of culture. Models and practical know-how are provided around how cultural experience is transformed using feedback from culture assessments. The key objective is to empower participants to collaboratively design a way forward and lead by example.
Multimedia
This is a multimedia intervention that includes the following elements:
- Readings on culture, values, innovation, feedback, learning and change to be provided to invited participants leading up to the workshop.
- A one day facilitated workshop that is designed to empower participants to unpack key points of feedback from the culture/climate survey and engage in a structured process to express individual and collective aspirations.
- Feedback from the workshop will be used to develop media (pictures, video, interviews) that will be provided to participants via a change calendar so that key themes from the workshop are emphasised on-going. Feedback will primarily include highlights from the event such as narrative, pictures, video, interview clips etc.
- Development and management of a change management calendar containing themes and activities for the program
- A cultural innovation website hosted by HR will contain materials from individual facilitated events.
The approach is designed to provide experience and skills that help participants engage outputs from the culture surveys in a creative, proactive way. Because participants are provided space in which to share their aspirations, innovations and visions, there is greater ownership of the way forward.
Designed outcomes (Objectives)
- Leverage technology to stimulate an on-going conversation on culture and values within the organization.
- A replicable intervention that can be offered to academic institutions of all kinds, including schools, and can be used in corporate environments.
- Provide experiential access to cutting edge thinking in change and culture.
- Culture is an on-going conversation that shouldn’t only be revisited during assessment time – the approach recommended here helps keep the conversation going.