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Organizational Culture Transformation
Culture exists whether you shape it or not. Left on its own, it becomes a mix of unspoken rules and assumptions—often misaligned with your vision. But when you make it intentional, it becomes a powerful driver of engagement, performance, and impact. Culture Alchemy helps you go beyond words on a wall, turning values into daily actions that bring your organization to life.
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Our Unique Culture
Alchemy Programme
We call it Culture Alchemy because just like an alchemist, we work with things that are everyday, seemingly mundane and turn them into something precious and durable.
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Outcomes:
- Clear Culture Code with actionable Guiding Principles that makes it easier to hire for culture fit, easier to onboard effectively, and to create more congruency in your team.
- Effective and integrated activation ensures that all your stakeholders are aware of your culture, which leads to easier alignment.
- Integration into existing HR processes and documentation, so the upgraded culture becomes second nature, an integral part of the organizational identity
Why Culture
Alchemy?
Before we start the programme, we conduct a culture gap analysis to create awareness of what works already and what we need to work on together.
An overview of what to expect as well as an introduction to the interactive and engaging course format that we have created and refined over many years.
The idea of this workshop is to gather all the important information that we need to write the foundation of the culture code. Since it is hard to answer questions like “What should our values be?” or “What should our guidelines for behaviour be?”, we take a more indirect approach in this workshop. We discuss a number of questions and play through a couple of scenarios to get this information in a fun and playful way.
You’ll be working in breakout groups and the whole thing will be highly interactive, fast-moving and quite inspiring. The two hours will pass before you know it.
From the ideas we collect at the workshop, we then puts together a Culture Code. This manifesto serves to make your purpose and Guiding Principles explicit, to incorporate the aspirational parts of your culture, so that you can actively work towards them.
A document is not enough to change behaviour, no matter how inspiring the creation process and the wording might be. In order for the Culture Code to come to life and become meaningful and real to every member of your team, it needs to be activated.
Just like the Code itself, the activation process is co-created to ensure that it is aligned with your culture and fits well into your daily routines.
Guided by the process, you nominate Culture Keepers/Guardians and they take turns implementing the activation process.
The final step in the process is to integrate the culture into your HR documentation and processes, from recruiting to onboarding to reviews and offboarding, the culture needs to be woven into your everyday processes in order to truly become a part of the very fabric of the organization.
Overview of the
Culture Alchemy Program
DO IT YOURSELF
We provide everything you need to complete the programme independently, Obviously you can always book individual sessions with Carolin should you need help along the way.
HYBRID
facilitation in all the workshops, while allowing you to do your own thing in between.
Cut out a lot of preparation time and sit back in the knowledge that you are experiencing the full force of these workshops with Carolin’s guidance. Take charge of writing the materials in between workshops.
DONE FOR YOU
All you have to do is show up for workshops and give feedback on the finished Culture Manifesto
and the Activation Manual. Carolin & her team do all the hard work for you.