The Golden Thread

·     Challenges the accepted idea of ‘cultural change’ as a process with a start and an end -where culture is concerned there is no end.

·     Helps leaders understand why culture is key to maintaining successful organisations and how this will enable them to ride the storm, but also build a stronger foundation for the next storm.

·     Explores the impact of events such as global pandemics and how responsiveness to change may need to be a cultural ambition

Contents of book

Introduction

Chapter One – The Golden Thread of culture explained

Chapter Two - Untangling the thread

If we know where we are starting from (and we know where we want to be, the rest is simple) – This section is based on diagnostics, identify what data you have available to you both internally and externally and then how you can interpret that data. It looks beyond what the data is saying and explores some of the misinterpretation so that you can truly identify what the culture is like, not what you are being told.

Chapter Three - Laced in gold

Chapter on organisational valus, their meaning, their use and their effectiveness. It will break down the stages of purpose, design, define, create and deliver, a framework to review and align current practice to ensure a robust delivery plan.

Chapter Four - The thread that binds us

Here we breakdown each step of the employee journey from attraction, to onboarding, training, management development, communication till they leave, we review the golden thread of the organisation culture within section. Challenged by a series of post section questions to reflect against what is working well and what needs further development. The section also offers some simple practical theories to breakdown what may or be overlooked at times and why is it key that’s we understand the impact of decisions or our style on our employees

Chapter Five - Threadbare

What happens when change is thrown at us, how do we rebuild an organisation through our people. Survivor syndrome and post change impact increases organisational suffering. This section looks at how we transition our employees. Post pandemic, mass redundancy, business growth – all have a people impact yet businesses are still failing to regroup and to regroup well. This section we look at the personal impact and then the role of the business / manger and how they can accelerate the transition period.

Chapter Six – Over to you

A summary with the key takeaways. A reflection on the ‘Golden thread’ what is it within your business, is it there? Is it prevalent and what value does it have? What happens when it’s not there and what impact can that have? We need to focus now more than ever on our people, our employees we need to serve them in a way we haven’t previously, only by doing so we will rebuild the lives of so many and the economy