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Cultural Audit: Values, Vision and Culture

The document provides a template for a cultural audit of a business. It includes tables to reflect on changes needed to the business's practices, shared values, and shared assumptions. For each category, the template lists specific questions to consider the current state and any future changes needed. The goal of the audit is to understand the existing culture and how to shape it going forward, with the reflections to be included in a Business Growth Plan. The cultural audit examines interpersonal relationships, decision making processes, values, behaviors, stories, and employee mindsets within the business.

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Cultural Audit: Values, Vision and Culture

The document provides a template for a cultural audit of a business. It includes tables to reflect on changes needed to the business's practices, shared values, and shared assumptions. For each category, the template lists specific questions to consider the current state and any future changes needed. The goal of the audit is to understand the existing culture and how to shape it going forward, with the reflections to be included in a Business Growth Plan. The cultural audit examines interpersonal relationships, decision making processes, values, behaviors, stories, and employee mindsets within the business.

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CULTURAL AUDIT

You have already completed a current state Cultural Audit in Module 3: Recognizing your
values, vision and culture.

Now think about the future. Use the table below to reflect on the changes you need to make to
your culture, explain how you plan to action these changes, and the impact they will generate.
You may feel that some areas do not require change. You can leave these boxes blank.

When you have completed this table, record your reflections in your Business Growth Plan.

1. YOUR BUSINESS’S PRACTICES FUTURE CHANGES NEEDED?

1. Is your business an extension of your


family and friendships, or are the
relationships with your staff more
impersonal and goal-driven?

2. Do you document your processes, or


do you rely on your employees
knowing when and what tasks need to
be completed?

3. Do you have a business structure, or


do staff take on any task that needs
picking up, without a specific remit?

4. How are decisions made? What


happens when you are not there?

5. Do all your people come to you with


problems, or only some of them?
Why?

6. What do you celebrate in your


business?
7. What are the rituals you might see at
your business that tell us about your
unique character? For example, does
someone bring in special food on
certain days? Do you hold regular
meetings with your employees?

2. SHARED VALUES FUTURE CHANGES NEEDED?

1. What is the primary reason that the


business exists?

2. What values does everyone in the


business truly hold in common?

3. What are the priorities among these


values?

4. When hiring a new person, how do you


know if they are ‘a good fit’?

5. What are the ‘rules’ in your business


(probably unspoken, but well
understood) that, if they were broken,
would cause a person to be seen as a
cultural outsider?

6. What shared values exist in your


business that are problematic for you?
For example, does everyone value
socializing at work more than getting
the work done?
7. What kind of behavior is rewarded in
your business, and therefore reflects
your values?

8. What kind of behavior is criticized in


your business, and therefore reflects
your values?

3. SHARED ASSUMPTIONS FUTURE CHANGES NEEDED?

1. What kind of stories do your


employees tell about the business
when you are listening?

2. What kind of stories and jokes do you


think they might tell when you are not
listening?

3. What do employees admire about the


way the business has developed?

4. What do your employees believe about


their ability to innovate in their jobs?

5. Do employees assume they should


check with you before making a
decision?

6. Do employees believe that it is


important to try to come up with their
own solutions to problems?

7. Do employees believe the business


can and will grow?
8. Do employees believe they are a part
of your vision for the future?

9. Do employees believe they can


develop within the business?

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