The Banking Association of Bahrain in partnership with 21st Century Consulting (21CC) is holding a seminar explaining why organisational culture matters and how to diagnose its alignment with strategy.

The event will take place tomorrow (January 27) at Regency InterContinental Bahrain, said a report in the Gulf Daily News (GDN), our sister publication.

It will be conducted by 21CC managing director Moyez Kassam and StartPoint managing director and Human Synergistics associate consultant Janet Donnelly.

Organisations who have restructured, downsized, merged, benchmarked, or re-engineered themselves in the past, sometimes experience mixed results in terms of solution effectiveness. The question most commonly asked tends to be, "why aren't we experiencing peak performance as a result of these changes?"

Success doesn't hinge on any one reward system, training programme, or strategic plan. It is now apparent, more than ever before, that true success stems from the positive effects of an organisation's culture.

This seminar will be of great value to leaders and senior executives who want to successfully enable and sustain change, increase employee engagement, improve sales and increase customer loyalty, create a risk-sensitive and client-centric culture, enable innovation, improve operational efficiency and profitability.

A culture that is well aligned with a company's strategy can generate real energy and momentum, required to achieve optimal performance.

On the other hand, a misaligned culture can become an overwhelming obstacle to change and improvements - amplifying deep-seated but counterproductive beliefs and behaviours that are not consistent with the company's current or future interests.

In order to create sustainable behavioural change needed to achieve strategic goals, leaders must examine the culture within their organisations at the deepest levels and identify which traits can be used to accelerate and sustain change.

In an era of rapid change, complex challenges and competition, the need to understand and develop 'adaptive' organisational cultures has become an imperative mandate towards enabling transformational change resulting in sustainable performance and competitive advantage. - TradeArabia News Service