DECIDE WHAT MATTERS
Define the culture that will drive your brand to succeed
Culture is absolutely the engine-room of strategy. Only people can deliver what your strategy requires, in ways that the brand expressly values. Setting clear expectations for those you trust to perform lies at the very heart of the Principled Culture. Motivate your people to take your company forward.
If your culture is not thriving, reset the principles that underpin how you work together and use these to re-establish pride, belief and momentum.
If you lack the culture to deliver your strategy, identify what needs to shift and look to energise and motivate your people around a distinctive belief system .
If you are merging or acquiring businesses, forge a next-era culture that acknowledges the people who are joining you and makes them feel welcome.
If you prefer to focus on one or more aspects of your brand culture, concentrate your efforts on resolving the key elements you’ve identified as priorities.
Three ways
to build a principled culture
Trade Me
Culture as an avatar
Cato Brand Partners
Other companies might choose to express what’s important to them on paper, but New Zealand’s largest trading platform took an unconventional approach to representing their values. They decided to bring them to life in a series of distinctive avatars.
Charter Hall
The power of staying true
Charter Hall has built a highly successful business around their deeply aligned culture. We’ve worked with a number of their teams to ensure their internal touchpoints – from policies to events to initiatives – always reflect the things they hold dear.
Outcomes
We can help
+ Identify the type of culture you need to accomplish your strategy
+ Express what that means in a clear and purposeful brand culture framework, or
+ Build out specific elements of your cultural code that need updating
Sectors
Recent projects include
+ Digital
+ Energy
+ Government
+ Health
+ Transport
Is your brand culture a principle strength?
There’s huge power in being purposeful. Until you define what your brand culture stands for, why those principles are so important and what they mean in terms of how you define and reward success, your people are always going to struggle with moving forward effectively and collectively. Principled cultures work because people are excited by what they share.