What if you could wave a magic wand and instantly convince leaders in your organisation that culture change needs to happen?  What if they’d take this on board as their responsibility rather than leaving it up to HR? Imagine how good it would be if leaders across the business were queueing at your desk to share the latest progress with culture change. Or if your phone was ringing off the hook with leaders seeking your opinion on ways to progress ...

HR Directors find changing any organisation’s culture a tough challenge.  Engineering organisations are no exception and they bring specific challenges of their own. Culture can seem a nebulous concept and changing it  too ephemeral for the pragmatic, solution-focussed individuals attracted to engineering as a career. In this blog, I share nine practical steps that will help you get culture change moving in your engineering organisation. Step 1: Get the Chief Executive on board Don’t start culture change from the bottom or the ...

Want to be an innovative, problem-solving engineering firm with significant top and bottom-line growth? If you do, you need to get your organisational culture right.The link between organisational culture and company performance has been proven time after time. But just what culture should you be striving to develop in your engineering organisation? What culture will build the performance that sets your business apart? There is no one set of cultural elements that guarantees success – that would be too easy. However, in this blog ...

As an HR Director in the engineering sector, do you find that culture change is one of your objectives?  I’d guess that it’s somewhere on your agenda. But just how do you know what kind of changes you need to make?  What if your existing culture is already pretty good, and you just don’t know it?  What are the measures of a good engineering culture? Below are the five measures that represent a good culture in any engineering organisation, whatever its ...

Are you an HR Director who’s embarking on culture change in your organisation? Or maybe you’ve been leading culture change for a while and have hit that inevitable brick wall with energy and motivation flagging? Either way, I’m going to share with you five keys to successfully changing culture that will help you get off to a flying start and will get you moving again when the brick wall seems insurmountable. (1) Be clear about goals, success measures and ROI Business managers are often task-focussed ...

How many HR Directors does it take to change an engineering company’s culture? I don’t have a punchline for that one. But if you are an HR Director taking the lead in changing your engineering organisation’s culture, then you will know that this task requires more than one person to get things moving.  And the effort involved certainly doesn’t feel like a joke. Leading culture change is tough in any sector, there’s no doubt about that.  Many of the challenges ...