Creating an achievement culture

Cultural alignment across the newly merged company is a key priority. To this end, we asked our people for feedback about our organisational culture.

As the diagram below indicates the results of this first cultural survey for the combined entity reveal that, at the 70th percentile, our humanistic encouraging style is our greatest strength. With constructive styles at a solid 50th percentile, we have a strong baseline for building the kind of culture we’re aiming for. Aggressive/defensive and passive/defensive styles are below the 50th percentile, with the exception of the oppositional style.

Constructive styles value quality over quantity, creativity over conformity, and cooperation over competition. Growing these styles will be critical to building an achievement culture and over the coming year we will be focusing on growing our achievement and humanistic encouraging styles and reducing our oppositional and avoidance styles. This will be supported by a focus on achieving together through sociability, quality conversations and a ‘one business approach’, and by trusting self and others.

LNNF OCI – Actual Culture 2010

LNNF OCI

 

We have identified five ways that we can engage our people and build an achievement culture.

These actions target specific constructive styles and have capability programs in place to support their success.

LEADER ACTION CONSTRUCTIVE STYLE THIS WILL GROW SUPPORT TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN
1. GOALS:
Create achievement goals for all people

Achievement

Self actualisation
  • Leadership programs focused on goal-directed thinking and building resilience
  • Achievement planning workshops
  • Team engagement and culture action plans
2. PEOPLE PROCESSES AND COACHING:
Use our people processes and coach others to deliver quality outcomes

Achievement

Humanistic encouraging
  • Rolling out our people processes to all non-collective agreement people
  • Coaching programs for leaders
  • Development planning workshops
3. WELLBEING GOAL:
Coach everyone in your team to create a personal wellbeing goal

Achievement

Self actualisation

Humanistic encouraging
  • Wellbeing goals for all as part of the FY11 achievement goal setting
  • Safety and wellbeing module accessible online and in leadership programs
4. CONNECT:
Take the time to build new relationships and seek new ideas and feedback to grow everyday creativity

Achievement

Humanistic encouraging

Affiliative
  • Sharing talent, critical role people moves across NF and LN
  • Everyday creativity module in capability programs
5. ADVOCACY:
Create passionate advocates of LNNF and our brands
  • Build knowledge of our portfoliio
  • Communicate how we as a company do the right thing for the long term

Achievement

Affiliative
  • ‘Entertain with us’ and ‘Who are we?’ Ambassador tools provided to all our people
  • One internal magazine from May 2011
  • Sustainability at LNNF communication launch mid 2011

We believe we are in a good position to drive the required cultural change having recently accepted a Human Synergistics Cultural Sustainability Award, which was given to Lion Nathan for our progressive and sustained cultural change over 12 years.

A further component of our cultural alignment program was the steps we took to embed best practice people development and achievement processes across the group. Over 1,500 people attended workshops to understand more about our 10 Behaviours that Add Value, and how they can be applied every day.

The 10 Behaviours that Add Value

10 Behaviours