Course Description

INTRODUCTION

This Creating a Positive Work Culture in Organisations training course is designed to provide leaders and mangers with the skills and insights they need to create a positive work culture in their organizations. Participants will learn about the crucial importance of workplace culture, as well as the impact of culture on their organizations ability to compete effectively in today’s challenging market environments.

Work culture - it is the shared values, beliefs and behaviors that can propel organizations towards success - or hold them back and sabotage their progress. Time and again, research tells us that the quality of an organizations culture plays a critical role when it comes to attracting the most talented people into the organization – and it is a key driver of employee engagement and team productivity. Ultimately, culture is a critical pathway towards profitability and overall business success. The ability of leaders and managers to create, shape and maintain a positive workplace culture, therefore, is crucial.

Objectives

At the end of this Creating a Positive Work Culture in Organisations training course, you will have learned how to:

Generate the conditions that lead to a positive work culture

Apply leadership behaviors that bring your culture to life

Analyze your current culture and make positive changes

Shape a culture that attracts and keeps the best talent

Design a cultural context that leads to organizational success

The benefit of this course

Increased ability to attract and retain the best talent

Increased competitiveness and ability to achieve outcomes

Higher staff engagement and productivity

Leveraging culture to drive business success

Decreased disengagement, absenteeism, and workplace disputes

Develop the skills to positively affect your company’s culture

Learn insights that will help you elicit high performance with less effort

Improve the relationship between you and your team

Discover the key levers that drive a positive culture

Course Outline

Day 1

Creating the Foundation for a Positive Work Culture

Work culture – What exactly is it?

The business case for building a positive culture

Your culture – Where are you now? (Cultural assessment)

The hallmarks of a positive work culture

Laying the foundation on which culture can thrive

Day 2

Leadership Behaviors that Enable your Culture

Generating leadership self-awareness

Managers as enablers and gatekeepers of culture

How Emotional Intelligence permeates and shapes culture

How to foster a high-engagement culture

Developing leadership strategies that bring your culture to life

Day 3

Building a High-Performance Culture

The 12 building blocks that create the ‘cultural context’

How to drive a culture of clarity

Building relations that underpin a high-performance culture

Employee growth and development – The engine of performance

Aligning goals and objectives with your organizational culture

Day 4

Leveraging Culture to Attract and Keep Top Talent

Culture and the war for talent

Recruiting for ‘cultural fit’

On-boarding new recruits into your culture

Embedding and maintaining your culture to keep your best talent

Creating a culture of creativity and innovation

Day 5

Purpose – The Soul of Your Organizational Culture

Connecting with your organization’s purpose

Why purpose and culture are inseparable

Bringing your positive culture to life

Consolidation of key learning