Shaping%20and%20Managing%20a%20Culture%20of%20Vitality

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Shaping and Managing a Culture of Vitality
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• When I started I viewed my job as three main
  areas vision and strategy of the company,
  development and recruitment of the team to
  implement that vision and strategy, and the need
  to communicate all of the above. Within about
  four or five years I realized there was something
  that many of us do not understand when we take a
  leadership role culture. Great companies have
  very strong and great cultures. A huge part of a
  leadership role is to drive the culture of the
  company and reinforce it.
• John Chambers, CEO, Cisco Systems

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• Neither culture or leadership, when one
  examines each closely, can really be understood
  by itself. In fact, one could argue that the
  only thing of real importance that leaders do is
  to create and manage culture and that the unique
  talents of leaders is their ability to understand
  and work with culture.
• Edgar Schien

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• If you have not changed culture,
• you have not changed anything.

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Dictionary Definition of Culture

• The behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a
  particular social, ethnic or age group.
• Street Definition of Culture
• How we do things around here.

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Common Organizational Cultural Symbols and
Artifacts

• Language
• Type and volume of music
• Church sign
• Stories
• Rites, rituals and routines
• Written materials
• Metaphors
• Symbols
• Dress and physical appearance
• Buildings
• Technology (website, PowerPoint, etc)
• Heroes and Heroines
• Logos
• Office decor
• Leadership A Communication Perspective, Michael
  Hackman and Craig Johnson

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• Even if you have not yet identified your
  churchs culture, others have. Culture announces
  its identity throughout everything you do. The
  values of your culturestated or unstated,
  thought out or intentionalshape the feel,
  behavior and attitude of a congregation more than
  anything else.
• Culture Shift Transforming your Church from the
  Inside Out. Robert Lewis and Wayne Cordeiro

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• Every church is a little culture in itself.
  Jesus intended these cultures to be distinct,
  transformational and even irresistible. Yet as
  we look across our congregations we often fail to
  see a transformation culture being birthed from
  healthy hearts. Instead, we see business as
  usual.
• Culture Shift, Robert Lewis and Wayne Cordeiro

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• When the whole nation had finished crossing the
  Jordan, the Lord said to Joshua, Choose twelve
  men from among the people, on from each tribe,
  and tell them to take up twelve stones from the
  middle of the Jordan from right where the priests
  stood and to carry them over with you and put
  them down at the place where you stay tonight.

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• So Joshua called together the twelve men he had
  appointed from the Israelites, one from each
  tribe, and said to them, Go over before the ark
  of the Lord your God into the middle of the
  Jordan. Each of you is to take up a stone on his
  shoulder, according to the number of tribes of
  the Israelites, to serve as a sign among you.

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• In the future, when your children ask you, What
  do these stones mean? tell them that the flow of
  the Jordan was cut off before the ark of the
  covenant of the Lord. When it crossed the Jordan,
  the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These
  stones are to be a memorial to the people of
  Israel forever.
• -Joshua 41-9

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How to Shape and Manage Culture
Primary Means

• 1. Paying Attention How do we systemically and
  persistently emphasize the values that undergird
  our churchs theology and mission?
• 2. Reactions to Critical Incidents How does
  our church respond to stressful events?

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How to Shape and Manage Culture

• 3. Resource Allocation How do we spend money?
• 4. Role Modeling How do our leaders embody and
  pass on our culture to others?

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• If you want transformation, you must change who
  you arehow you think and what makes your heart
  beat. You must make sure the heart stuff comes
  first. A transformation of environment happens
  when church leaders embrace the shift in their
  heart, model it in their lives and passionately
  disciple their congregations to become likewise.
  You dont make a culture shift simply by working
  harder at the things you are doing.
• Culture Shift, Robert Lewis and Wayne Cordeiro

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How to Shape and Manage Culture

• 5.  Rewards How do we reward people?
• 6.  Selection How and whom do we hire or ask to
  serve in leadership?

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How to Shape and Manage Culture
Secondary Means

• Organizational Structure How does our structure
  promote or prohibit health and growth?
• Systems and Procedures What systems and
  procedures do we have in place so that the
  ministry runs well?

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How to Shape and Manage Culture

• 3. Rites and Rituals What do we do year after
  year that either increases or decreases our
  vitality?
• 4. Physical Space How does our facility look,
  feel and smell?

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How to Shape and Manage Culture

• 5.  Stories What are the stories that get told?
  
• 6. Formal Statements What is our language in
  terms of credos, mission statements, sayings or
  expressions?