The Business Culture Scan ©

The Business Culture Scan ©

Business cultures are formed by complex intergenerational relations and social memes. The whole is bigger than the sum of its members and their actions. That is why data alone cannot tell the whole story. 

The BLOCKBUSTERS Culture Scan © is a way to audit your business culture: flag, report, and quickly intervene on systemic/people risks.

WHY THE BUSINESS CULTURE SCAN ©?

70-90% of companywide re-structurings fail due to cultural factors. The Business Culture scan empowers leadership teams, consultancies, and project managers to adjust their project implementation to meet all stakeholder needs:

BOOST AWARENESS
of business culture with employees
SUPPORT A TRANSITION
with social/human/people dynamics
REINFORCE CHANGE
with experiential interventions

ORIGINS OF THE BUSINESS CULTURE SCAN ©

The Business Culture Scan © was developed to tap into the deeper layers of business change, transformation, and restructurings. Since change starts with the people, we have specialized in the emotional, relational, and systemic undercurrents (in bold, see below). This means our scan adds value to fact-based consultants/leadership teams.

RESULTS/SYMPTOMS/SUCCESS/IMPACT Success or lack thereof comes from cultural blindspots.
PROCESSES/STRATEGIES/TASKS/GOALS See the big picture: where and how do we deliver what?
PSYCHODYNAMICS/COMMUNICATION Connect the dots: how do we meet in diversity/conflict?
INTERACTIONS/INTER-RELATIONS What internal tensions and institutional dynamics play?
SYSTEMIC/CULTURAL/SOCIETAL How is today's reality influenced by our history/culture?
SPIRITUAL/SHAMAN/ARCHETYPES How do we nurture the earth's rhythm of life and death?

The BLOCKBUSTERS Business Culture Scan ©  is developed to manage underlying systemic and human dynamics with:

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
CULTURE AND ENGAGEMENT
INVESTMENTS AND PORTFOLIOS
CORPORATE RESPONSABILITY
STRATEGIC RESTRUCTURINGS
INDUSTRYWIDE INNOVATION

ABOUT THE BUSINESS CULTURE SCAN ©

With the Business Culture Scan © we relate and map your organization's issues (left) based on how in/external stakeholder experience them (right). This is how we find the collective blindspots —as input for (y)our programs.

STRUCTURED INFORMATION
audits, facts, quantitative, financial and HR ratios, numbers, net promoter scores, etc.
INTUITION/EMOTIONS/RELATIONS
qualitative, relations, traditions, history, traditions, patterns, work culture, etc.

The Business Culture Scan © gives leadership teams, strategic consultants, and changemakers insight into the bigger picture you operate in. Clarity on the wider context and environment strengthens the emotional and relational agility of teams that need to deal with institutional/systemic conflicts and company or industrywide stakeholder engagement.

DATA: MEASURE/STATISTICS
Internal factors include a.o. statistics about employee motivation research, employee ilness and burnout ratios, turnover and career switch costs, whistleblower cases or crises, salary/bonus scales/ratios. External factors include number and size of client and/or legal complaints, inadequate conflict resolution costs, client satisfaction and/or happiness / net promoter scores, ecological footprint, and social / societal impact data.
DYNAMICS: INSTITUTIONAL BIAS
Internal factors include the awareness of our (past/present/future) collective biases, what (non) trusted people hear/feel/see at the workplace, key social patterns that impact our everyday work experience, informal organizational structures, key bonus and performance principles, key procedures to fire/hire directors. External factors can be market volatility/competition.
ACTIONS: WE SAY/DO/WANT
Internal factors include if we are radically honest about if we ask ourselves the right questions, if we put money/time/energy to where our mouths are, if we focus on long-term employability or settle for emotional negligence, if we are willing to close the gap between what we say / do / want. External indicators include a.o. how key services and corporate communications align with your expertise, role, and societal mission/vision.
RELATIONS: THE WORK CULTURE
Internal factors include the tone at the top, repeating patterns across the organization, bigger picture thinking, interdepartmental and institutional conflicts, stories that we (do not) tell, principles of belonging, flow, and hierarchy, and who guards core values in decision-making. External factors include pro-active interventions or societal trends impacting the internal social interactions.

In order to conduct our Business Culture Scan © we use the principles from our Systemic Modeling © methodology:

CONTEXT
Solutions cannot be found at the level of awareness that created it. Instead, for knowing what we are called to do in this moment, we need to zoom out, see the big picture, and our roles therein.
RELATIONALITY
Business growth cannot happen with the sole focus on financial results. Instead, business develops like an organism. Micro and macro-movements can completely re-design or re-position a business.
EMOTIONALITY
Transformational leadership fails if we keep playing out the scripts from our personal and collective pasts. Instead, radical awareness of cultural dynamics/patterns frees up energy to get the job done.

In order to do the Business Culture Scan © we also use the key methodologies from our Systemic Modeling training:

SYSTEMS THINKING
To understand today's problems and tomorrow's challenges, we need to acknowledge the bigger picture: how do we design our social systems to be inclusive, equitable, and fair to all life across the globe?
EMBODIED LEARNING
To change the world, you need to start with yourself. What inspires you? What blocks you? How do you un-learn what no longer works? How do you re-program your automatic pilot, habits, and values? What 'moves' you?
VISUAL MODELING
To move other people's views and perceptions, we need to be radically aware of our own blindspots. What is it that we do (not) see? How do we map group dynamics, business paradoxes, and the roles we play in larger societal trends?

HOW DOES IT WORK?

The BLOCKBUSTERS Business Culture Scan © consists of four fixed, custom-made, tested, and proven steps:

1 INTAKE AND MEETUP

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  • meet us in person
  • share hopes/fears
  • co-create program

2 INTERACTIVE SESSION

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  • presentation/webinar
  • for board / employees
  • for business buy-in

3 MEET STAKEHOLDERS

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  • selection and meetups
  • in/external one on one
  • across the business(es)

4 RESULTS REPORTING

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  • interactive reflection
  • culture scan webinar
  • agree / disagree poll

HOW TO GET STARTED

For optimizing the results and reliability of the Business Culture Scan © we need conversations with at least 10% of the business population. When headcount is below 150 employees, please do consider our Coaching Day Program.

THE BUSINESS CULTURE SCAN © SUPPORTS THE CULTURE DEVELOPMENT BLUEPRINT ©

The Business Culture Scan © is key in both designing, tailoring, and delivering the Culture Development Blueprint ©:

COACHING DAYS

  • 1 on 1 coaching for all
  • identify key dynamics
  • we do the cultural scan

every half year one session

BURNOUT PROGRAM

  • prevent burn/boreout
  • learn emotional agility
  • increase productivity

monthly for two quarters

WHISTLE PROGRAM

  • forms business culture
  • bring in societal trends
  • a storytelling platform

every quarter one session

BRANCHWIDE CIRCLES

stakeholder engagement event program

  • shape systemic change
  • invest in stakeholders
  • rebrand  & reposition

yearly returning session

Our culture scan can be booked in advance of our programs but also be put together while running our programs:

STARTUP
intake/culture scan
PHASE 1
experience our programs
PHASE 2
train the trainers program
PHASE 3
run programs yourself

DO IT YOURSELF

The BLOCKBUSTERS Business Culture Scan © is licensed automatically upon completion of the Systemic Modeling Training © or upon joining the BLOCKBUSTERS UNITED coalition. It can be licensed to individuals and businesses to:

DO A QUICKSCAN
create a people dashboard
BRING FOCUS/DIRECTION
to your intervention program (s)
MAP YOUR IMPACT
awareness, transition, change

The Culture Scan © supports systemic project management and turnarounds for your transformation assignments as:

INDEPENDENT CONSULTANTS

  • facilitate our hands-on programs
  • join our network and community
  • work on assignments worldwide

please contact us

CHANGE CONSULTANCY OFFICES

  • access our blueprints and tools
  • manage key social dynamics
  • join our systemic coalition(s)

apply for membership

BUSINESSES AND CORPORATES

stakeholder engagement event program

  • invest in corporate leadership
  • build internal change capacity
  • rebrand/position your business

apply for membership

WHAT DO OUR CLIENTS SAY?

Our clients vary from start-ups to societal impact investors, from non-profit foundations to for-profit multinationals and governments. Here you can find a list of our systemic consultants and what clients they have worked with earlier.

BLOCKBUSTERS' emotional interventions help us solve our daily problems in a much shorter time-span. "The financial savings are mind-blowing to investors." Great to partner up with!

Their facilitation is an eye-opening experience of perspectives, about yourself. "Facing my blindspots was confronting but worth it."

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EXAMPLE OF A LARGE-SCALE INTERVENTION

It is remarkable how Oscar and his team(s) translate their vision into lean, profitable awareness programs.

REQUEST A QUOTE WITH US

We charge our clients per total employee size. Why? Because it gives us the freedom to do as many hands-on coach sessions as we think are needed. It is also an incentive to be as good as we can be. Besides, we can guarantee to not take more than 10% of your workforce out of daily business operations. While we coach and train people on seeing the big picture, we map your work culture. After all, people back on track, means that you can turn back to business.

  • Medium-sized

    from E275/employee

    Prices ex. VAT based on 500 FTE

    • audit team collaboration
    • one-on-one coaching(s)
    • hands-on interventions
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  • Large business

    from E150/employee

    Prices ex. VAT based on 5,000 FTE

    • define your work culture
    • align strategic portfolios
    • boost change capacity
    REQUEST QUOTE

  • Multinationals

    from E100/employee

    Prices ex. VAT based on 50,000 FTE

    • set up a global work culture
    • manage investment portfolios
    • align business with people
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Note: abovementioned prices may not include travel/hotel/location/food costs, please contact us directly, and plan an intake, so we can make you a company- or program-specific quote. Feel free to also reach out to include our expertise.