Culture for Scale-ups.

We help scale-up organizations understand and evolve their culture as they grow.

Evolving Culture as you Scale.

The importance of having a healthy organizational culture become clearer as your organization grows.

Smaller, start-up organizations typically have cultures shaped by their leaders and founders, who have direct working relationships with all the employees in the organizations. However, as organizations start to scale up and new layers of management, locations, functions or products are introduced, these leaders and founders start be removed from some of their colleagues. As this happens, organizational cultures often change leading to confusion and conflict within and between teams.

Luckily, it’s possible to understand, evolve and embed your culture as you scale-up so that it remains a competitive advantage for you as you grow.

How we can help

We typically work with scale-up organizations over a number of months to help them understand and capture what their culture is like when they are at their best, reflect on the how they would like their culture to be in the future and embed changes within their organization to help bring this evolving culture to life.

As with all our work, we take a highly inclusive and co-creative approach to what we do, ensuring that all employees have a voice in the process.

Understanding your Current Culture

We use a combination of workshops, interviews and surveys to learn what your current organizational culture is like when you’re at your best.

By engaging with everyone in the organization, we can generate a clear and honest picture of your organizational culture. Involving everyone also helps ensure that colleagues learn about the importance of culture and start to understand their roles in shaping a healthy workplace culture.

Imagining a Future Culture

Once we’ve helped you understand and capture your current culture, me move our focus to the future. At this stage we use interactive workshops to help your colleagues and managers explore the behaviours that are serving them well, and the behaviours they would like to see more or less of in the future.

As we go through this process we start to get clarity of the culture and ways of working that you would like to see evolve as an organization. Our collaborative and co-creative process means that we also start to engage colleagues in these future ways of working and hear their thoughts on how they could start to adopt them, and what they need of others in the organization on this journey towards this new culture.

Embedding your Desired Culture

Having developed an understanding of the culture you would like in your organization, we help you introduce, embed and sustain your desired behaviours and ways of working.

We do this through a variety of ways, all of which are led by your colleagues ensuring they understand and own the changes they are implementing to improve your culture.

Learning more and working with us

Check out our pdf on evolving culture as you scale to learn more.