How can you ensure that your strategic planning aligns with your client's culture and values?

?? Deeply comprehending a client's culture and values is foundational to aligning strategies. ?? Cultural Documentation Analysis: Examine internal documents such as newsletters and communications beyond mission and vision statements. ?? Engage Multiple Levels: Don’t just talk to top management. Interact with employees from various tiers to get a holistic view of the culture. ?? Quantitative Cultural Assessment Instrument (OCAI): Use tools such as the OCAI to gather data on prevailing cultural traits. ?? Value-Culture Alignment: Ensure the strategic plan aligns not just with stated values but with the lived culture and behaviors observed. ?? It's imperative to immerse oneself in a client's culture and values for authentic alignment.

In my experience working with business owners in an entrepreneurial environment, those leaders who recognize the importance of a well-defined culture and values have a significantly better chance of scaling their businesses. In fact, in order to develop an effective vision and mission statements, knowing who you are as a company at the core is a necessary start. Unfortunately, many small business owners are too busy trying to build and survive to even have time to think about these things or simply feel that they are not big enough that they matter.

Esta fase é crítica pois se houver discordancia de cultura e valores significativa entre a sua empresa e o seu potencial cliente você pode ter que avaliar se vale a pena o manter como cliente.

It is vital to understand your own culture and values and then seek out clients who share those and for whom you can do a great job without compromise. Too many organisations look for clients and then adjust their own culture and values to fit those of the client just to keep the client happy. Many of the recent scandals we have seen have been due to people compromising values they know to be right just to gain or keep clients or customers who are profitable in the short term.

How does culture impact business, through what mechanism. How are objectives arrived at, if they are for profit then these objectives start from need to earn a return consumerate with the level of risk being taken. Yes agree that once these objectives which speak to many other areas hence the use of tools, is culture in an organization a fixed constant or the strategy may dictate the culture required to execute and achieve the results. The culture maybe the the reason for lackluster performance. A culture based on nepotism or other amoral behavior cannot be a basis for a strategy. In the planning phase of the strategy this is the opportunity to identify behaviors and attitudes that impede progress and performance and envelope this HR projec

Execu??o é sempre uma atividade crítica. Estratégias excelentes se perdem ou n?o entregam os resultados esperados devido a uma execu??o incompetente dos projetos