Organizational culture affects performance. Examine the organization’s self-disclosure of its culture and the implications of that on financial success. Experience a simulated business situation that reveals elements of the work culture in which participants operate. Use Denison Organizational Culture Survey and Paper Planes, Inc.

Paper Planes, Inc. and Denison Organizational Culture Survey

• session is a full day
• each Paper Planes, Inc. simulation can accommodate 12-30 participants.
• works with any number of participants large enough to characterize the underlying culture with DOCS
• requires pre-work for compiling DOCS data gathered either online or through scannable forms

Here's the Discovery

• Organizational culture has a measurable effect on bottom-line success.
• Use data compiled through the Denison Organizational Culture Survey and the team’s experience in executing the Paper Planes, Inc. simulation to provide powerful insights on the impact their culture has on the organization’s performance.
• Help participants learn about the important connection between systems, quality, and customer satisfaction.
• Help them improve teamwork and interpersonal communication skills.
• Help them discover how attitudes and performance can change with ownership, involvement, and commitment.

This coordinated design combines an assessment and a simulation.

The Denison Organizational Culture Survey gathers anonymous and confidential opinions and input from the perspectives of people across the organization about its functionality. Sixty items provide data for feedback on 12 dimensions of the organization’s culture. Data are reported in aggregate and can be broken out for subgroups of the organization. You can compare these data for your client organization to that reported by high-performing and low-performing organizations. Use the information and comparison to help the organization better understand what it is doing well and where it may need to focus more attention.

Present to the group feedback from the Denison Organizational Culture Survey. During the debrief following Production Run # 1 in the Paper Planes, Inc. simulation,, ask the group to share how they saw any of these cultural traits play out during the simulation. With this simulation, use groups of participants from across the organization so that participants are not grouped with their usual coworkers. Use feedback from DOCS to help clarify the collective experience of the participants as they move from a functionally-designed system in Run # 1, to a group-designed system in Run #2, and then work toward continuous improvement through Run #3. Use DOCS to provide the cognitive feedback. Paper Planes, Inc. will show participants how behaviors that permeate the organizational culture affect team performance and effectiveness.

More Information

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