culture strategy & implementation
Move beyond promises and discussion to action that nurtures your company culture in measurable, noticeable, and maximally impactful ways.
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To provide the most customized and nuanced deliverables and solutions, these context-gathering options allow for a deep understanding of your organization rooted in data. Audits and assessments can include one-on-one interviews, group listening sessions, surveys, and document and/or existing data review as well as additional industry research. Resulting deliverables will include findings and recommendations deliverables and/or conversations with culture carriers and leaders.
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Using findings and recommendations from context-gathering, strategic planning can range from formal facilitated workshops to more collaborative and generative development sessions. These strategic touchpoints will result in deliverables that best fit your work culture. These can range from structured roadmapping inclusive of objectives, goals, actions, drivers, and metrics to more fluid, yet still catalytic, action and accountability plans rooted in vision and values.
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Strategies and action plans often include shifting, re-designing, or launching entirely new programs and initiatives to benefit your organizational culture. Having now been steeped in your culture growth journey, Gestus can co-develop such programs and initiatives as well as support implementation to ensure success and report on progress. Programs and initiatives can include Mentorship/Sponsorship, Internships, Entry-Level Growth Plans, Performance Management Systems, People Management Cohorts, Feedback Systems, and more.
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With the proliferation of AI tools, usage, and competition, how AI usage aligns with values and organizational culture has often been an afterthought. But in reality it is a business imperative allowing companies to retain trust with employees and consumers as well as develop sustainable practices that preserve the reasons why the company succeeds. This area of advisory guides clients through strategic and process development work to ensure your people and your vision is the guiding force of how AI is used and integrated rather than the reverse.
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Often one of the most enriching and psychological safety-affirming programs an organization can provide, ERGs, BRGs, and Affinity Groups offer a variety of benefits and growth opportunities to stakeholders. But they require intentional structure, design, execution, and support in order for them to align with strategic objectives and company values. With extensive specialized experience in designing and running these programs for a variety of populations, Gestus can integrate its understanding of the company culture into an ERG/BRG/Affinity Program that optimizes benefits for both staff and the company.