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Episode 48/27 March 2024/31 min/The High Performance Leader

How managers embed purpose into culture transformation

Struggling with culture change as a manager? Discover proven strategies to embed lasting purpose and performance in your team from Kiwi Bank's experience.

How can managers embed lasting culture change in their teams?

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Struggling to achieve culture change that truly sticks in your team? In this episode, discover how managers can drive meaningful transformation by aligning culture with organisational purpose and performance. Learn actionable strategies to ensure culture change survives real world challenges and delivers business results.

What you will learn

  • Understand how to assess and improve existing team culture
  • Apply practical tools for measuring culture versus engagement
  • Transition from organisational values to a mindset focused culture
  • Overcome resistance and contextualise culture within different teams

This episode features Andrea Duncan, GM Culture Capability and Performance at Kiwi Bank, who brings hands on expertise in leading culture transformation.

Episode highlights

  • (0:00) Intro
  • (2:00) About Kiwi Bank and Andrea Duncan's role
  • (3:31) What is a purpose led organisation?
  • (6:00) Assessing culture and finding improvement areas
  • (9:19) Measuring culture versus engagement
  • (12:52) Moving to a mindset focused culture
  • (15:38) Overcoming resistance to change
  • (20:50) Contextualising culture within teams
  • (26:03) Recommendations for culture change learning
  • (28:09) Involving all employees in shaping culture
  • (30:25) Outro

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