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Culture

Culture is the operating practices you actually run.

A full-day workshop that treats culture as the pattern of operating practices the organisation actually runs. Drawing heavily on Netflix's No Rules Rules, you'll examine your real practices on candour, feedback, transparency, decision-making, and reward, then leave with named commitments to change the practices that are producing your lived culture.

Duration
Full day
Format
In-person
Group size
6 to 20
ideal
Best for
Leadership teams
The day

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The standard format is a full day, 09:30 to 16:30.

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09:30
The Culture Frame
Culture as operating practice, anchored on Netflix.
45 minutes
Canvas
<p>The opening module of the Culture pillar workshop. Establishes culture as the lived pattern of operating practices, anchored on Netflix's <em>No Rules Rules</em>, then turns the same lens on the team itself.</p>
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09:30
Morning Break
15 minutes
09:30
The Operating Practices Audit
Surface the practices the organisation actually runs.
90 minutes
Diagnostic
<p>Surfaces the gap between the culture the team articulates and the operating practices the organisation actually runs. Evidence-led, working from internal data to private reflection to shared diagnosis.</p>
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09:30
Lunch Break
45 minutes
09:30
The Feedback and Candour Diagnostic
Rate the six dimensions of candour honestly.
90 minutes
Diagnostic
<p>The substrate diagnostic. Six dimensions of candour (feedback up, across, down; surfacing problems; sharing information; expressing disagreement) rated against HOLDS, MIXED, or BREAKS. Without this substrate in place, every other commitment is theatre.</p>
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09:30
Afternoon Break
15 minutes
09:30
The Leadership Mirror
Examine your own behaviour as a source of culture.
60 minutes
Canvas
<p>The leadership team examines its own behaviour as a source of culture, with five questions drawn from the Netflix candour playbook and structured peer feedback. The day's most consequential session.</p>
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09:30
The Operating Practice Commitments
Own a practice, set a standard, set a check.
60 minutes
Exercise
The closing module of the Culture pillar workshop. Each leadership team member takes specific operating-practice commitments back to their function: an owner, a practice, a standard, and a 90-day check.
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What you leave with

Three things that change in the room.

one

Examine the operating practices that produce your lived culture, drawing on Netflix's No Rules Rules approach to candour, transparency, and feedback

two

Audit honestly the gap between the culture you articulate and the culture your organisation actually runs

three

Leave with named operating-practice commitments, owned across the leadership team, that close the gap between intention and lived behaviour

Next step

Book it for your team.

Every engagement starts the same way: a 30-minute call to understand the team, the situation, and what good would look like. From there, we agree the shape of the workshop together.

TESTIMONIAL
“As a business, we wanted to come together to define our values - not what we did, but how we wanted to do it. From the minute I spoke to James, he came across as an expert who was incredibly knowledgeable and wanted to understand our business and objectives so he could get the very best out of us. We agreed a plan, and James clearly talked through how the workshop would be delivered. The workshop was run exceptionally well and James tailored his approach to ensure everyone was heard - from physicists to HR!”
Kath Pallas
Head of Human Resources, SmartKem
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