cultureQs - Accelerating Change/Building your Borderless World

1Eric Lynn ● www.cultureQs.com

Accelerating Change

The Change Accelerator

Building your Borderless World …… Together

ISAGA Dornbirn, Austria 8th July 2014

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Nature has no Borders


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ALL Borders are Political Constructs

and so many are simply straight

lines drawn on maps


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Failure …It's expensive: economically and socially!It's avoidable!

• Success rate of projects - 30%!

• People-related problems … the primary obstacle to success in organisations. Task-related conflicts in teams may be healthy, people-centred conflicts result in business loss.

Consequences of Borders in our Minds for Organisations


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If we see the workplace as an eco-system ...

… A plaza comprising the physical mental and spiritual architecture enabling generative innovation for purposeful living. "How can we cultivate a culture with involvement, responsibility, engagement and joy at their core that create meaning?"

The Need … Reframing


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cultureQs is a proactive response to the perennial challenge that organisations face … “How can we get everyone to adopt a common focus on the common purpose and objectives of our business?” We confront the human questions together to find answers that work.

The Need for a Value-Focused Approach to Change Initiatives


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Questions …… that challenge our perspective of the world

basic drivers and beliefs

behaviour patterns

traps that cross-cultural interactions invariably bring

personal preferences

thought-provoking quotes from traditional and modern sources

impulses from everyday life


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Questions …… that challenge our perspective of the world


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The continuously evolving dynamic interaction of mindsets and gutsets of actors in the system(s).

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Seven Core Layers of Culture

AHuman Being

nationalculture

ethnicculture

organisationculture

age / generation

gender

belief

professionalculture

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Eric Lynn ● www.cultureQs.com

We do not encounter and engage with each other as representatives of a specific cultural group.

We engage as individual human beings with our personal intrinsic motivators.


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Deep Meaningful Conversations that Connect … Quickly


Accelerating ChangeSelected Applications …

European Corporate Legal Experts, in Austria

Social Work Leaders, in Netherlands

International Conference for Change Experts, in Germany

International ManagementStudents, in Belgium

Personal Development for Entrepreneurs, in Germany


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1. Introduce in Context including the client's overriding Question.Example: "How are we going to create a generative collaborative

culture that enables our project to succeed?"

2. Group plays cultureQs

Intensive Debriefing to draw out insights and learnings

… = clarifying new perspectives …

3. Transfer: Group starts work, focused on their overriding question

Time Frame: ½ Day to 1 Day

The cultureQs Process …


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We went very deep very quickly. We went deeper into topics you wouldn’t normally talk about. It's about learning to listen to others. Everybody was included in the conversations. It's about the values we are supposed to share. It's about other people's needs and drivers. It generates common ground. It generates a shared language. Tough questions! It gives interesting mirroring back to me. It permitted us to put aside our masks, be ourselves, building

trust. This is much more than a game!

Client Feedback …


Accelerating Change1. Powerful highly relevant Questions

… that can be selected according to group needs.

2. Simple rules that reflect life's unpredictable processes … and … create space for the human complexity that pervades our interactions.

3. Skilled Facilitated Debrief that highlights insights for everyone.

4. It's real. It's personal. It's authentic.

5. It's inclusive and moves beyond simplistic concepts of right/wrong; positive/negative, etc.

6. It's fun!

Impact … Why cultureQs Works…


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From a senior Organisation Development Consultant …

“cultureQs is an initiative that matters and that can make a difference. In my opinion any change project should be able to call upon the community for an intervention and follow-up.”

Client Feedback …


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- We are experienced facilitators and change agents- We work across the multiple layers of culture- We understand the intrinsic nature of change and are

passionate in the belief that quality cooperation directly influences productivity.

An Emerging Collaborative Experimental Journey for a format that meets our personal, professional and economic needs, and … is aligned with unnegotiable ethical principles.

cultureQs Community


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… a borderless world …


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Eric [email protected]: +49 176 67889006

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