Leveraging culture to drive strategy
Strengthening your Organization’s Culture
Delivered online in real time
Program level: Advanced
A healthy culture has many outcomes, including greater productivity and better talent retention. But while the outcomes of culture are manifested throughout the organization, the power to influence or strengthen culture resides primarily at the top.
This program identifies the necessary factors and best practices that make organizations special and fully capable of supporting the organization's strategy. Explore the most effective leverage points for maintaining your culture’s strengths. Clarify and deliver a riveting vision. Engage others to commit to the organization’s ultimate purpose, and live the core values the company purports to uphold.
Online program format
Each day of the program includes facilitator-led online sessions in real time, with ample breaks provided. Sessions are highly interactive, enabling you to network with peers, brainstorm ideas, engage in skill-building activities, and receive constructive feedback. You will also have access to self-directed resources (readings, videos, self-assessments etc.) that you can review at any time.
Who is this for?
This advanced-level program is well suited to organizational executives and senior operational leaders, as well as to those in senior leadership positions within a large department. It is also designed for executives or directors of smaller organizations, especially those with limited HR representation.
As culture is a large-scale dynamic, we recommend that multiple senior leaders from your company attend together.
Note: this program presumes a certain level of influence and decision-making capacity within the organization. Therefore it is not appropriate for supervisors, junior managers or administrative support staff. It is also not recommended for experienced HR professionals.
"This course is very well designed to allow you to evaluate your organizational culture and understand where it is strong and/or weak. I would highly recommend it to anyone looking for a tune-up or even an overhaul of their organizational culture."
Benefits for you
- Analyze your organization's layers of culture and harness their power
- Leverage culture as a leadership tool to attract and retain the best talent
- Ensure that culture aligns with the company's strategy and vision
- Identify blind spots that may hinder your company’s ability to flourish
- Map out a plan to enhance and perpetuate your culture
- Communicate what your company does, whom it serves and the way it needs to operate to compete and/or succeed
- Help your organization become a better place to work
"This course was an eye opening look at the way the culture of an organization can dramatically affect the state of a company - for good or for ill."
Program content
- What makes people want to join an organization, what makes them leave, what makes them not leave and what makes them want to stay
- Identifying the assumptions, beliefs, values and artifacts of your organization’s culture
- Evaluating the three main pillars of your organization’s leadership philosophy
- Clarifying your organizational mission, vision and values, and communicating them in a way that enables people at all levels to understand and commit to them
- Assessing your organization for the recommended attributes of a healthy culture, and taking action to close any existing gaps
- Aligning culture to support and execute the organization’s strategy and purpose
- Developing a plan to augment, leverage and sustain your culture's strengths
- Including people in delivering an inspiring vision and compelling purpose
Special features
You will develop an action plan that includes specific steps to include your people, honour your organizational legacy and optimistically forge ahead.
Program leader
Tracey Gurton
Upcoming sessions
Note: participants in this program may qualify for up to $10,000 in funding through the Canada BC Job Grant program. Find out if you qualify.
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Contact a learning advisor for more details.
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Get in touch
604.822.8400 or 1.800.618.3932
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