The UNITE Cultural Layers Model – Connecting Culture And Business Outcomes
The UNITE Cultural Layers Model summarizes all the layers from purpose in the center to business outcomes and bottom-line results. Each layer builds on the previous one, and ultimately all are aligned with purpose. Nicely, we can thus connect the deep purpose and the softer aspects of culture to the more “hard” and measurable business outcomes and understand how they connect.
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Susanne is a leading authority in the field of culture change. She has led organizational change projects for key players across the world.
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- The UNITE Cultural Layers Model connecting culture all the way to business outcomes
- The UNITE Perspectives on Organizations helping you appreciate the dimensions of culture
- The UNITE overview of evolutionary developments across people, culture, organizations & economy
- The UNITE Paradigm Shift in Organization & Leadership
- The UNITE Culture Canvas empty/with definitions ready for your workshop. The canvas comes both in a core and a conextualized version
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Why we use it
Purpose is the engine that drives your innovation effort. It allows team members to make decisions autonomously without undermining a project’s progress. When the cultural and business layers are aligned, your team performs better, and customers will view you as more authentic. We use this tool to gain clarity and drive consistency across the culture, goals and business outcomes of organizations.
How It Works
A team’s purpose is the larger goal they are trying to achieve. In the case of an innovation team, it might be as simple as finding an ideal product to solve our customer’s Job to be Done, or it might be as broad as Google’s purpose, “To organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”
Next come core values.
Values guide our actions in a more explicit way than meaning does. In a way, it translates our overall worldview into actionable principles that can guide our behavior. The layers go on from there. Vision is the team’s long-term goal, which it hopes to accomplish in five to ten years. Goals are the means to reach the vision and can be in any time frame, from weeks to years.
Finally, the Value Proposition is the benefit the customer experiences as a result of the organization’s offering.
What is the goal of the model?
Alignment. When all of the layers are in alignment, the performance of your team and organization will increase dramatically. The UNITE Cultural Layers are a tool to help guide your business and even help your customers connect to the purpose of your organization.
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