Culture Crucibles

Culture Crucibles -
Accelerating Change Management

At Culture Crucibles, we aim to bring a fresh & creative perspective to Culture. Going beyond the vision statements, engagement surveys and the values workshop, we want to spark the pivotal role of culture . A role that’s proudly manifests and effortlessly demonstrates personality of the organization!

Simplifying Organization Transformation through Culture Shaping

Culture shaping plays an instrumental role in Change Management, which enables organizations to collectively mobilize its people and resources, for achieving overall transformation.

Drawing inspiration from external practices, but adapting to internal context, is more effective than plain ideation. Through our creative experiential learning, we invite participants to future-dive into an organization, that they aspire to build. To explore an equally meaningful organization culture, our approach is anchored around appreciative inquiry principles, supported through action learning to inspire tangible culture transformation and affect sustainable change management.

In this era of necessitated transformation, we aim to simplify the pertinent challenges of mindset changes and, embracing technology & AI, while accentuating the powerful role of culture in business growth and empowering innovation.

Whether the strategic intent is backed-up by an equally aligned and more importantly, a more relevant & accepting culture; defines the real cultural maturity of the organization. Drawing inspiration from external practices, but adapting to the ethos as per the internal context, is more effective than plain idiosyncrasy. Through our creative experiential learning, we invite participants to elucidate the real organization that they take pride in working for or future-dive into an organization, that they aspire to build. Pragmatically, there may be conjectures of dissonance and questions about the viability of building that aspirational organization culture. To navigate the misgivings, our approach is anchored around appreciative inquiry principles and aims to negate the gaps through an augmented facilitation. In this era of necessitated transformation, we aim to simplify the pertinent challenges of mindset changes, embracing technology & AI, role of culture in business growth and empowering innovation.

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Signature Programe

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Organizations are made of people, who are normal beings in the course of their everyday lives. They perform an equally humane role in the corporates, with different shades of emotions like ambition, inspiration, competitiveness, empathy, integrity, passion, hope and fear! Collectively this wide spectrum of humane vibrations can make an organization either a harmony of collective success or a cacophony of fractured goals. The experiences each employee has within the organization shapes her outlook for the entire ecosystem that she is a part of. How we deal with each individual plays a significant role in shaping organizational culture, and culture does eventually drive the performance. Notwithstanding the significance of strategy, leadership, investments, ROI and rewards, culture forms the common bonding across every aspect of organizational well-being.

At Culture Crucibles, we are attempting to bring a fresh perspective to the traditional definition of Culture. Going beyond the vision statements, the Do’s & Don’ts, the explicit Values; culture is also about the unspoken, unstructured fabric of the organization. It is about the organizational persona that the leaders want to develop and give it meaningfulness, and it is also about what notion the employees have about that persona. Whether the strategic intent is backed-up by an equally aligned and more importantly, a more relevant & accepting culture; defines the real cultural maturity of the organization. Drawing inspiration from external practices, but adapting to the ethos as per the internal context, is more effective than plain idiosyncrasy.

Through our creative experiential learning, we invite participants to elucidate the real organization that they take pride in working for or future-dive into an organization, that they aspire to build. Pragmatically, there may be conjectures of dissonance and questions about the viability of building that aspirational organization culture. To navigate the misgivings, our approach is anchored around appreciative inquiry principles and aims to negate the gapsthrough an augmented facilitation. In this era of necessitated transformation, we aim to simplify the pertinent challenges of mindset changes, embracing technology & AI, role of culture in business growth and empowering innovation.

One of the best forms of assessing the existing culture and crafting the right culture, is to listen to the associates, let them paint the picture of how they understand the organizational practices and what they believe to be their organizational culture. Such honest and undiluted paraphrasing can happen, when they are brought in an open environment, without being felt vulnerable. To become one with their inner selves, they need to recognize their outer selves and that leads to originality of ideas, clarity of expectations, and sincerity to build. With an open paint brush or a sharp crayon or a smooth writing pen, they reflect and intertwine their thoughts with the larger canvass, to paint that desired organization.

Approach:

Our approach takes a holistic view of various components which form the foundation as well as the radars of the organization. A fluid workshop, wherein the twin approach of tapping into human creativity is supplemented with visualization of a “desired” organization. It brings forth the gaps and aspirations in the most candid expressions, which can be duly leveraged by the leadership teams to review, redesign and rebuild a more optimistic and aligned organization.

Human Creativity:

As humans, we have an intuitive inclination towards arts, skills and sense of empathy &appreciation. While most of us are not evidently aware of it, it only takes a profound nudging to awaken that. And once the right stimuli and ambience is provided, which speaks to the inner-self of the individual, she expresses them vividly, articulating the gaps and shaping the building blocks of a healthier workplace experience. The facilitator provides a limitless and fearless ambience wherein any form of art, viz. singing, storytelling, skit, collage-making, short movie, drawing, poetry etc is encouraged, as a medium to dwell upon the very simplified aspects of organization well-being. Through iterative lucidity, the mesh of articulation is shaped into a collective unison. That’s when the group begins to rise above the individual sharing into collective aspiration.

Desired Organization:

Through a simplified tool, which asks some pertinent but non-exhausting statements, the participants are asked to rank the overall organization on a scale of “desirability”, with rationale of their scores. It extrapolates various elements of faith in leadership, personal recognition, future-readiness, learning curve, focus on employee well-being, progressive processes & policies, opportunity for self-development.

Participants are asked to provide their responses through their creative selves, either as individuals or groups. Throughout the process, the focus is on three elements: realistic visualization, practicality of the “desirability” and mutuality of impact (for organization as well as the associate).

To make sure the exercise is not only utopian, rather genuinely utilitarian, the senior management is encouraged to join the conclusive session, wherein the participants share their visual template, with their scores on each of the “desirability” component, their rationale and explanation of the scores through the “creative” outputs, along with suggested action plans to improvise the scores.