Culture Change

Organisational change always places new demands on staff. However much they are accustomed to change, each time it happens people need to understand the organisation's new expectations of them, to ensure that lasting change is achieved.

National initiatives such as World Class Commissioning or new organisational standards like Foundation status demand radically different ways of working from staff and often require significant changes in behaviour and culture. The success of any change in direction or drive to achieve a new standard, rests primarily on people's ability to understand how their behaviour needs to change - and why.

Applying GatenbySanderson's leadership assessment package during organisational change can achieve two things: it can act as a vehicle for communicating revised expectations, and as a tool for identifying people's development needs and skills gaps in relation to these new expectations. In these situations, we recommend a highly tailored leadership assessment package. It must suit the unique context of your organisation and dovetail with existing HR processes, but it will be informed by our experience of supporting other organisations with similar challenges. From these foundations, skills gaps can be closed and new behaviours can be modelled and reinforced throughout the organisation, producing lasting culture change.

Contact a member of our team for further details.