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Change Management and Corporate Culture

Change Management and Corporate Culture

Change Management and Corporate Culture are related specialties of Bourke & Associates. We combine them to help us successfully design and implement culture-change initiatives for corporate, government, and not-for-profit clients facing regulatory, legislative or environmental challenges.

Change Management, at Bourke & Associates leverages practical understanding of human behavioral science. As members of the Association for Psychological Type (APT) and as certified practitioners of some of the most widely verified and validated assessment instruments in the world, our associates are positioned to guide organizational stakeholders to a place of resolve and recommitment to the most dramatic of organizational changes.

Corporate Culture is defined as the behavioral manifestation (tangible confirmation) of commonly-held values and beliefs. As these beliefs weave their way into our assumptions and unconscious ways of behaving, they have the power to shape our success or carry us to failure. The Corporate Culture Change practice of Bourke & Associates utilizes a staged approach that begins with a measurable baseline-culture survey and statistically-valid focus-group process to “unearth” the underlying values and beliefs that characterize the organization’s current culture.

In subsequent facilitated stages the formal leadership group is guided to clarity regarding the required cultural values, beliefs and behaviors for attainment of the organizational Mission and Vision.

With the desired cultural value and beliefs clarified and the baseline culture assessed, the process rolls out to the organization utilizing identified (and trained) “informal leaders.” We refer to these individuals, hailing from all ranks throughout the organization, as “influence leaders.” With our guidance, the formal and identified influence leaders convene with large groups of employees to put the clarified cultural values to the acid test. The objective of these facilitated sessions is to create the grassroots “business case for change.” This stage helps to ensure organization-wide ownership around the real behaviors required for attaining our preferred future.

Every employee session culminates in clearly stated, motivating, actionable steps against which all employees will be measured.