Podcast: Implementing an Organizational Culture Survey Within a Global Company

Chapman & Co. Leadership Institute is Barry-Wehmiller’s consulting arm that specializes in helping other organizations unleash the extraordinary in their businesses and their people.

They do this by helping those organizations identify, develop and equip their leaders. One of the ways Chapman & Co helps to equip leaders in an organization is with information. One of the ways they can provide that information is by administering an organizational culture survey.

On this podcast, we’re going to do a deeper dive into organizational culture surveys and implementing them within a global organization with Chapman & Co.’s survey expert, Morgan Miller. I encourage you to read a blog post Morgan recently wrote for the subject for Chapman & Co. website. In it, she says:

Your business wouldn’t dream of making a decision about finance, marketing, or operations without informed data, and yet, everyday businesses make decisions about people without this critical information. The real value behind an organizational culture survey is a data-driven approach to understanding your company culture, just as you would use for any other business segment. This means collecting metrics and identifying areas of strength and opportunity to improve employee engagement and move your business forward.

Think beyond a “check-box” approach to running a culture survey, which often leads to survey fatigue and lackluster action. Employee feedback realizes its full potential when we use it to enable targeted interventions and initiatives that enhance your organization’s culture and support business goals. You can do this by understanding how your team is weathering organizational change, recognizing the insights most connected to productivity and retention, and creating a strong company culture throughout the process.

Morgan will explain the whats, whys and hows of organizational culture surveys and then she'll also talk to Yasmin Nehls, a people team leader from Barry-Wehmiller’s BW Papersystems company. Together, they address the challenges in implementing a global organizational culture survey, but they’ll also talk about the ways the survey has brought change to their organization.