Culture Change

Your organization’s culture has a set of rules, written and unwritten, for how to survive and thrive. Some traits are essential to success; others hamper creativity, collaboration, and performance.

We have identified four chronic leadership dysfunctions that are present in every organization:

  • conflict avoidance

  • “us vs. them” dynamics

  • resistance to uncomfortable learning

  • tactical fire-fighting

We partner with you to put an end to these dysfunctions, scale self-awareness, and create an Ego Free culture from top to bottom.

Senior Leadership Models the Way

Don’t send your employees off to get “fixed” — it won’t work. It doesn’t matter what you say, it matters how you act. Our programs will enable your employees to proactively own their responsibility in problems, raise uncomfortable issues, and ask probing questions in their performance reviews when you and your senior leadership have modeled it enough for them to feel safe doing so.

Organizational transformation happens from the inside out. As employees at every level of your company become personally aware of their ego-driven behaviors, and discuss them openly with each other, a more potent way of interacting, collaborating and contributing will emerge.

Gratitude and Sustained Performance

The paradox of cultural dysfunction is that everyone is both victim and accomplice. Your people probably believe the culture happens to them, even as they unwittingly play it out on others. They all crave something different but lack the awareness, tools, and collective commitment to make a sustained shift.

Instead build a culture of authenticity, inspiration, and ego-free relationships that will inspire your people to take risks, go the extra mile, and surpass performance expectations. Time and again, we have seen how grateful people are when leaders create cultures that make that possible.

Lead the change down into the organization

Human beings are most receptive to change they see, not change they are told to make, so the higher you are in an organization, the more your behavior shapes the culture. Top management participates in our most comprehensive training because their leadership ripples throughout the organization. We offer adpated versions of our self-mastery tools as we go down into the organization.

Step 1: Train the top leaders to be “Chief Learners”

The Ego Free Leadership Program enables senior management to understand the roots of their contribution to counter-productive cultural traits, develop a keen understanding of interpersonal dynamics and have the tools to consistently lead these situations differently.

Step 2: Create a self-aware united middle management

Although corporate environments are quite different, they are all limited by a common set of unproductive cultural traits. WeLead addresses the main ones: conflict avoidance, Us vs. Them dynamics, aversion to feedback and working tactically / fire-fighting.

Step 3: Instill a learning mindset deep in the organization

Inspire the rest of your organization to create transparency and break down silos. Spark Your Mastery provides the heart of your organization with core tools and concepts to be part of the change.

  • Andrew Mahtaney

    “The experience has been unlike any other. Even though I thought I really knew my team and we had an open candid environment, it was through WeLead where I really realized what that meant.”

    - Andrew Mahtaney
    MVP, Marketing & Analytics
    Top financial institution

  • Brandon Black

    “I’m realizing more and more how key business challenges are fraught with people issues, unacknowledged performance gaps, and long-standing silos. The results of working with LaL are reflected in our financial returns.”

    - Brandon Black
    CEO
    Encore Capital Group

  • Dr. Scott P. Foisy

    “One of the best group of facilitators I have experienced.”

    - Dr. Scott P. Foisy
    Former Deputy Director for Operations, Threat/Target Systems Department, NAVAIR

Frequently Asked Questions

  • For smaller companies, we have a few possible approaches that are dependent on the type of culture change you’re trying to create, as well as the number of people you want to train within your organization. The next best step would be to set up a free consultation to see what approach might be right for your situation.

  • WeLead is designed for mid-level managers and is a more in-depth training. It includes 12 days of training delivered over 4 sessions, as well as 360° Feedback for each participant, and consultation from LaL along the way.

    Spark Your Mastery is designed to bring LaL’s unique tools and concepts to all levels of your organization. It’s delivered virtually with a commitment of approximately 1 day per month for 6 months.

    Set up a free consultation with one of our coaches to learn how these programs can help you meet the goals of your organization.

  • We previously offered a train-the-trainer program, but found that our content is best delivered by our experienced facilitators. While at this point we do not offer an “out of the box” train-the-trainer program, we are open to exploring alternative approaches depending on your organization’s needs. Set up a free consultation to discuss what would work best for your organization.