Advance your culture for a greater competitive edge, performance, inclusion with diversity, and accountability.
Organization, from the Latin word organum, means “to form into a whole, consisting of interdependent parts.”
Without question, organizations need to support and celebrate the diverse backgrounds and perspectives of their team within respectful, caring and inclusive environments where collaboration and teamwork are championed and rewarded to spur greater innovation and organizational success.
And, just as important, leaders need to ensure their employees’ grasp and connection with their organizational mission, vision and strategy to create a work environment where everyone on the team is working as a “whole.” Important to Note: highly effective internal communication strategies and plans are essential to achieve a ‘one team’ mindset.
Unfortunately, significant efforts (and cost) to unify employees through DEI(B)1 initiatives have largely not been able to keep pace with demands for cultural transformation. A little-known nuance within DEI is that professionals in this work tend to primarily focus on one letter (D, E, or I). The HRC’s team focuses on the “I” (Inclusion). We guide discovery across all dimensions of diversity to educate that diversity is inclusive of everyone. Inclusion cultivates collaboration and innovation… that which all organizations rely on for their sustainability.
Our success in DEI initiatives for more than 25 years has been consistently heralded by clients… whether completing a DEI transformation to enable a large-scale growth strategy in 5 years when a best practice 10-year timeline is widely accepted or successfully moving the mindsets and actions of a highly resistant (after 10 years of effort) yet critical function within only three, half days of facilitated education for the division to win the Chairman’s Award.
Our current social climate is influencing fragmented behaviors. People are experiencing numerous, simultaneous culture shocks and intensified rifts within our homes, academic institutions, organizations, and communities. Teams are being challenged by needs for disparate footholds.
Talk with us. Our focus is unifying your organization and its people to collaborate, innovate, and succeed in your marketplace with the inclusion of the rich perspectives and talent of a diverse workforce.
Humanism and increasing engagement will spur greater innovation and higher levels of resilience in a workforce, complex change accelerate and saturate our workplaces. In addition to well-formed vision, strategy and aligned culture, the degree to which leaders and employees tap into their discretionary energy (aka high employee engagement) and embrace needed change, a sustainable organizational future is far more likely.
1. "Employee Engagement: Paving the Way to Happy Customers” by Aberdeen Group, August 2015
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” How many times have we been reminded of Peter Drucker’s quote by our own or others’ experiences? Organizational culture also provides a sustainable competitive edge that is arduous to replicate. So what is culture? Culture is not what you aspire to have. It’s what exists.
Many organizations tend to focus on a few, but not all, of the seven cultural elements. In what ways does your organization experience your culture differently than as it’s presented?
Some Basic Constructs for Humanistic Work Environments:
The HRC is a proven team of experts in developing and implementing aligned and integrated, world class human resource and human experience systems and practices. We develop leadership and work environments to engender employee trust, engagement, performance, resilience, and social capital. Our unparalleled understanding, expertise, processes, and tools guide organizations through more rapid and successful culture shifts, placing the focus on enabling the primary driver to profitability… the employee.