"A culture is made, or destroyed by its articulate voices." Ayn Rand
What is the relationship between an organisation’s culture and it’s performance? There has been a keen focus on this question over recent years, with growing evidence that a healthy culture has positive consequences, including an organisation’s productivity, effectiveness, growth, efficiency, employee morale and a sustained competitive advantage.
These two days will give you an extensive understanding of organisational culture and what that means for you and your organisation. You’ll also leave with clarity around how to confidently contribute to the development of your organisation’s culture.
Learning Outcomes
During these two days, you will be encouraged to participate, debate, develop creative ideas and practice so that you will develop confidence to transform knowledge and inspiration into winning performance.
By achieving the key areas of this programme, participants will be able to understand: •The power of culture •What shapes cultures •What the characteristics of a healthy culture are •The different types of cultures •The impact of conflicting cultures that can co-exist •How to assess your current organizational culture •What culture changes could benefit your organization •The different methodologies of culture change •How to create your culture story for your senior leaders
Una has her own organisational development consultancy that provides coaching, facilitation, training, conference sessions and consulting to the business, government and not for profit sectors, both locally and internationally.
Una’s ability to think systemically and to take a very pragmatic approach to situations, enables her to crystallise core issues for organisations, teams and individuals. Her wisdom, keen sense of humour and deep respect for others, makes working with her enjoyable and rejuvenating. Una’s knowledge and passion for sharing and transforming theoretical models of how people think and interact, into practical tools, ensures insights are gained and growth and new directions occur for those working with her.
Organisational Roles & Responsibilities • Head of Culture & Capability, Vodafone NZ
• Development of Trans-Tasman leadership program
• Development of programs for those delivering operationally
• Review and integration of values throughout organisation
• Review, redesign and implementation of Trans-Tasman succession process
• Global review, redesign and implementation of new performance management system
• Facilitation of leadership team development
• Facilitation of high performing team development processes
• Led virtual learning team from all functions of business
Training Programmes: Design, Development & Delivery • Diploma in Front Line Management
• Leadership & Management Development
• National Certificate in Adult Education
• Train the Trainer
• Performance Coaching
• Change Management
• Emotional Intelligence
Una has worked extensively with many profiling tools, including LSI, TMI, Myers-Briggs and Managing for Success profiling and she is an accredited workplace assessor.