Culture Enhancement
Let the Droste Group Assist in Building a Winning Culture for Your Company.
Build a Winning Culture for Your Company
Culture affects all performance and business metrics in your company every day. It is the shared beliefs, attitudes, mindsets, habits, and customs that drive how you and your people behave at work. It’s about what’s inside of them and how it relates to serving your customers, mission, revenue, bottom line—and most of all, each other. Droste has a strategic business partnership with the 50-year-old culture enhancement provider that is best-in-class as is proven by data—Excellent Cultures—and which has worked with some of the largest and best companies in the world.
Like an iceberg, the real drivers of business culture lie below the surface. And nothing changes until those change.
Any Culture Can Be Transformed When These Critical Elements Exist.
- Senior leader(s) committed to fund and lead the process by personal example.
- Clear measurable data profile of your ideal and existing culture.
- Leadership team committed to putting skin in the game.
- Customized Excellent Cultures proven process strategy deployed as directed.
There are Four Steps to Change Your Culture:
- Measure & Benchmark
- Equip & Empower Change
- Change How Leaders Lead
- Operationalize and Sustain
Confidential Diagnostic Assessments & Interviews
- A simple online confidential questionnaire draws out each of your participating leaders’ and/or employees’ views of what they perceive as your ideal desired organizational culture goals, objectives, and perceived obstacles to achieving them.
- A short confidential interview is conducted with a representative sample of the participating group.
- These responses are summarized and confidentially delivered first to your senior leadership and then to your entire team as part of the agenda for an upcoming workshop.
Organizational Culture MRI Process
- Your participants will complete an anonymous online assessment defining both their visions of the ideal culture they want to work in as well as its current state.
- A proprietary algorithm scientifically norms your data against a global database of constructive benchmarks of excellent corporate cultures. Results identify the basis for producing scalable cost savings and revenue increases when appropriately applied.
Data summary is delivered in both comparative metrics as well as colorful graphic depictions. Resulting metrics are benchmarked to provide actionable criteria as the basis for designing your customized transformation strategy.
The Strategic Culture Assessment & Strategy Development Workshop
- A highly interactive and customized onsite meeting with your designated leadership team in a morning-through-working-lunch format.
- Private overview meeting with senior leader(s) to review diagnostic findings and set objectives for the larger leadership team meeting.
- Larger Overall Team Meeting – Review and Discuss:
- Confidential feedback & interview summary
- Organizational Culture MRI results
- Your team’s culture goals & business case return on investment
- Interactive robust dialogue resulting in consensus on your team’s desired High Performance Culture Goals, Perceived Obstacles to overcome, and Behaviors to Change enroute to your desired Excellent Culture, plus resulting cost savings and revenue increases.
- Discussion of potential next steps in the strategic implementation of your desired Excellent Culture.
- Private meeting with senior leader(s) to review team meeting feedback and evaluate next steps strategy based on assessment findings and team responses.
Expected Results
- Clearly-defined, measurable ideal culture that will deliver optimum performance.
- Data gap analysis comparing your existing culture against the ideal.
- Obstacles to achieving your ideal culture.
- Needed changes to achieve your ideal culture.
- Impact that achieving your ideal culture will make to your bottom line.
- Proven strategy components to achieving your ideal culture.
- Data profile indicating leadership team’s readiness to change (how much skin they are willing to put into ensuring your successful transformation).
- Strategy discussion to achieve your ideal culture and maximize your resulting ROI.
Business Impact
- Microsoft’s Dave Jaworski—Dead Last to #1 Beating Plan Every Month
- Toyota’s Jack Hollis—#27 to #1 Employee Engagement
- America’s #1 Triathlete—US Naval Academy Grad Tim O’Donnell
- Coast Property Management’s Tom Hoban—225% ROI, Best Place to Work & Diversity Awards
- GM Nameplate’s Paul Michaels—Three-Time Boeing Supplier of the Year
- Toyota’s Jack Hollis—Puerto Rico’s 95% Engagement & Record Market Share
- GM / Delphi United Auto Workers—$5.5 Million cost Savings, 60% Reduction in Scrap, Grievances Down 76%
- Schneider National—Sales Up 27%, Accidents Down 50%, Employee Retention Up, $24 Million Annual Cost Savings
- Lynden Transport’s Paul Grimaldi—Employee Engagement Up 29%, Employee Retention Up 330%, $3.7 Million Cost Savings
- Toyota’s Jack Hollis—The Scion Story Engagement from #10 to #1
- Lynden Transport’s Jered Post—Employee Retention Up 330%, Union Grievances Down from 5-7 Weekly to 1-2 Per Year