As Jim Collins tells us in Good to Great, and as Gino Wickman highlights in Traction, getting the right people on the bus, and in the right seats, is critical to the success of any organization. And in the People component of the Traction system your Core Values, the People Analyzer®, and the GWC metric are all important tools to accomplish this. After all, your organization is only as good as your people, right? No.
Your organization is only as good as your people perform.
And the same people will perform differently in different cultures. In fact, the performance of most of your team members will rise or fall to the level of the culture that you’ve embedded throughout your organization.
This is why it’s so critical to have a system to not only define your culture, but more importantly, to operationalize that culture. This can’t be left to chance. As David Friedman writes in Culture by Design…
“Good companies have good cultures by chance,
but world-class companies have world-class cultures by design.”
Enter CultureWise for EOS®. Culture by Design™, based on the book by the same name, is a comprehensive system for operationalizing your culture and embedding it into every part of your organization. It’s been implemented in thousands of companies worldwide with extraordinary results, and it’s now available in a special edition designed specifically for companies running on EOS®, allowing you to seamlessly integrate the best elements of both programs to achieve maximum impact.
How does it work?
CultureWise for EOS® extends and amplifies the People component of your existing EOS® framework in 5 key ways:
- Operationalize Core Values: We help you bring more clarity to operationalize your Core Values by defining the behaviors (we call them “Fundamentals”) that bring them to life. While Core Values describe the foundational principles upon which your organization is built, the Fundamentals serve as the operating manual for “how we do things around here.”
- Weekly Rhythms: We create a weekly cadence that fits neatly into your EOS® rhythms and provides the mechanism to focus on one Fundamental at a time. Like your quarterly Rocks, this focus intensifies the learning and increases the internalization of the behaviors you want to see.
- Accountability Chart – We add 2 critical roles to your Accountability Chart: The Culture Executive Sponsor and the Culture Champion. We help you teach and coach these roles so leaders are clear on who has primary accountability for operationalizing your culture.
- L10 Culture Segue: We leverage your current L10 meeting Segue as an opportunity to engage team members in a deeper exploration of the Fundamental of the Week (FOW), further increasing the adoption of the key behaviors.
- Culture Measurables: Through Fundamentals surveys and the CultureSuite software, we integrate key culture measures into your existing Scorecard, allowing you to measure improvement over time.
Quite simply, CultureWise for EOS® is the best way to supercharge the People component of your EOS® program and extend its impact to every level of your organization. Best of all, it’s available in Starter, Professional, and Enterprise Editions.
Is Culture by Design™ for EOS® right for your organization?
It’s a perfect fit if you:
- Are running on EOS® and want to take the People component even further
- Want to ensure that your team members, at every level, are living your Core Values
- Want a system for teaching and coaching the behaviors that drive your success
- Understand that culture is the ultimate driver of performance