WHAT IS IT?
Organisational culture hasrepeatedly been rated the most important issue organisations face as organisational culture can drastically influence employee engagement or facilitate change implementation. Especially with widening capability gaps worldwide, employee retention and talent management have become increasingly vital for companies.
The effectiveness in facilitating such organisational culture and changes strongly depends on a leader’s degree of cultural awareness. Promoting culture and engagement in the right manner is what helpsleader become effective change agents and to then positively influence their organisational culture.
The Interplay of Leadership and Organisational Culture
The role of the leader is vital in changing and living organisational culture.
By recognising the need for change and implementing a new organisational culture at the right time and in the right way, leaders facilitate the successful implementation of change initiatives and serve as change agents.
Apart from being able to recognise the need for a new culture, leaders also need tobe able to formulate and design change initiatives in orderto drive changes. Only envisioning change and motivating employees will allow the leader to have a positive impact on values, behaviour, and employee engagement, thereby creating a lasting impact on the organisation. Once cultural aspects become engrained and visible, e.g. by implementing a feedback culture,those aspects facilitate further benefits such as increased employer attractiveness or employee retention.
Detecon helps organisations to excel by training their leaders and by advising organisations on appropriate organisational cultures.
A Proven Track Record
With its tailored approach and proven methodology, Detecon successfully helps clients with tasks ranging from improving employee development and selection processes to designing whole new cultures, thereby enabling cost reduction. Detecon also offers a large pool of experts in state-of-the-art methodologies, such as New Work, which Detecon has helped several DAX 30 companies to apply.
A typical cultural reorganisation will start with an analysis of the current organisation and the challenges the organisation faces, thereby allowing to derive client-specific design options fitted to the needs of the new target organisation. Detecon’s experts in organisational development will offer recommendations and accompany the implementation process by giving training and facilitating communication. Furthermore, the progress will be tracked allowing taking corrective actions early on if necessary. The use of the right tools, such as the GCIndex, enables short execution times.
Detecon’s ‘Triple A’ Approach
Detecon’s ‘Triple A’ approach reflects the whole dynamic between leadership and organisational culture enabling clients to make full use of their potential by applying efficient and sustainable designs and solutions.
The approach consists of the steps ‘Attract’, ‘Assess’ and ‘Advance’. Given the complementary nature of the steps, the model allows for holistic organisational development. As each step enables a different group, it is possible to use it a as a modular system.
The first step ‘Attract’ focuses on solving the issues posed by the war for talent by analysing and bettering culture, thereby allowing to efficiently attract new talents. ‘Assess’ is concerned with employee development and setting up high performing teams by applying tailored approaches using proven methodology. Taking this one step further, ‘Advance’ concentrates on leadership development and enabling learning organisations.
Our Testimonials
“Detecon’s services were highly professional and of the highest quality at all times. The results achieved were in full accordance with our expectations. The team proved its capability to adapt to our organizational requirements.”
Phuti Mahanyele, Chief Executive Officer, Shanduka Group
“We look forward to developing our relationship with Detecon and their further participation in projects to meet the ongoing requirements of Coca-Cola Shanduka Beverages.”
Matshela Seshibe, Managing Director, CCSB
During the project implementation all milestones were achieved in due time, thus the agreed objectives were fully met. McDonald’s appreciated the recommendations provided by the Detecon team for further reflection workshops for the assigned mentors in the near future to ensure success.
The team proved its ability to flexibly adapt to our requirements and the project’s needs. We are pleased to recommend Detecon as reliable and value adding partner.
Sechaba Motsieloa, Corporate Affairs Director, MacDonalds South Africa
The Detecon team has worked closely with members of the respective teams and critical C-level stakeholders within AIG.
The results achieved have been in accordance to our expectations. The team proved its ability to flexibly adapt to our requirements and Project needs and executed activities that went beyond the originally designed scope of work.
David Ngobeni, CEO, Alpha Investment Group
“Progresif appreciates and agrees with the recommendations provided by the Detecon team for a possible organizational structure of NMP, as well as the necessary roles, headcount and allocation of NMP staff.
The delivered assessment reports were acknowledged as critical for further decisions with regard to personnel and their development.We are pleased to recommend Detecon as a reliable and value-adding partner.”
Paul Hyde, CEO, Progresif
“The project reported directly to the top management (CEO and Management Committee)of Digital Division with the undersigned as the responsible overall project manager of the M2M/ DigitalDivision unit.
Detecon conducted the work to our utmost satisfaction. Through the professional management of the Detecon team within and beyond their work streams, the project was highly successful and ensured that all relevant stakeholders’ were aligned and their requirements managed. This was a key success factor for the project to meet the tight six months transformation deadline.
We are happy to confirm Detecon as the preferred consultancy to support us. Without limitation, we can recommend Detecon as a highly professional consultancy.”
Johannes Kaumanns, VP M2M -Strategy & Business Development
