The Manager's Pocket Guide to Corporate Culture Change (Manager's Pocket Guide Series)

This book provides a practical plan and roadmap to start the knowledge management process. It walks the reader through all the stages - assessment, planning, deployment, and evaluation - and then puts it together to expand the reader's core competency and win competitive advantage. In order to achieve desired transformation in corporate culture, leaders must take a logical and systematic approach to change. The most successful change programs begin with a statement of shared values. Beginning with values ensures that the entire organization puts purpose before action. The Manager's Pocket Guide to Corporate Culture Change provides the essential methods for mobilizing people behind these shared values. It teaches the skills to empower people within defined parameters, the type of support they require for success, and the best ways to recognize individual and team contributions. It also reviews the basic tenets for developing people, creating a learning organization, and provides practical methods for aligning the culture behind the business strategy in order to manage the change. The Manager's Pocket Guide to Corporate Culture Change is easy-to-read, engaging, and interactive. Each skill has an introduction, an overview, the basic idea, an illustration, and an opportunity for the reader to apply the skill. Annotation The Manager's Pocket Guide to Corporate Culture Change provides a systematic approach for defining an organization's shared values and mobilizing people behind those values. Managers learn a logical method to lead to change in order to achieve desired transformation in corporate culture Table of Contents......Page 4 Introduction ......Page 8 Task I. Maximizing Commitment......Page 19 Task II. Building Capacity......Page 68 Task III. Aligning the Culture......Page 116 Task IV. Managing Change......Page 146 Summary ......Page 184