GROYSBERG, LEE, PRICE, AND CHENG
What’s Your Organization’s Cultural Profi le?
Before you begin an initiative to shape your organization’s culture, it’s
important to explore where it is today. This worksheet and the ques-
tions that follow can help you formulate a preliminary assessment of your
culture and get the conversation started.
Consider how your organization currently operates, what is valued, how
people behave, and what unifies them. Partner with a colleague and
independently rate each statement according to how well it describes your
organization.
Add the two ratings in each row and then rank the eight styles. The higher the
total, the stronger the match.
Compare your rankings with your colleague’s and discuss the following
questions:
- What do you like most about the current culture?
- What behaviors and mindsets might you evolve?
- How eff ective are your organization’s leaders at role modeling the
culture? - What are the characteristics of people who are most successful in your
culture? - When new people don’t succeed in your culture, what is the most
common reason?