Does your culture support your strategy?

Core Culture is intertwined with strategy. Are you aligning organizational culture with your strategy? To clarify, the strategy of the organization is its vision, goals and the plans to achieve the goals. But, you must align that strategy with your Core Culture. And your Core Culture must support your strategy. When they are in sync, you have positioned your organization to accomplish the goals you envision.

Does your organization have Strategic Priorities?

In order to keep culture and strategy in sync, identify your strategic Priorities. Strategic Priorities are a component of Core Culture.

Strategic Priorities are principles and values. That is to say, strategic Priorities guide “how” the organization will achieve the “what” of its strategy. Therefore, you must know your strategy to define your strategic Priorities. To clarify, strategic Priorities further guide how you put into practice the organization’s Purpose and Philosophy in employees’ day-to-day activities. They focus employee attention to achieve success.

Steps to build a strategically-directed and productive workforce

Follow these steps:

1. Begin by defining your organization’s enduring set of guiding principles—the Purpose and Philosophy–the identity of the organization. Above all, a strategic plan will fail if these prime principles of the Core Culture do not support it.
2. Next, assess your organization’s strengths and weaknesses. In addition, evaluate the external factors that can impact success.
3. Then, create your vision and set specific, quantifiable strategic goals.
4. Now, decide the strategic Priorities that align with those goals. Strategic Priorities are part of the Core Culture. That is to say, these are the principles or values that can change because their function is to align the Core Culture with the strategy of the organization. Core Culture must align with and drive the organization’s strategy.
5.  Next, with a clear understanding of the Core Culture, Vision and Strategic Goals, build an action plan. Above all include measures to guide performance.
6. Turn goals into measurable results. Align your people and processes with your organization’s Core Culture and strategy.

You must align Core Culture with the organization’s strategy