Cultural Enhancement

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“Culture is a living organism, it is constantly changing and evolving. To build a culture that supports your strategy and enables you to achieve your objectives, your culture requires continuous investment and nurturing. It’s not something you can set and forget.”

We work with key stakeholders and decision makers on defining who the business is, the purpose it lives for and the cultural principles that will communicate the businesses culture of “how things are done around here”.  

Culture is infinite like horizons. Once you reach one horizon you are presented with the possibilities of the next horizon. We view culture as an evolution,

For those who embrace the Mirrored Horizons way, we take our model one step further to enable the people who make up a business to define this individually. This understanding enables leaders to embrace and appreciate the people on their teams. They can begin to better design practices to unlock the unique contribution of everyone. Empowering employees in this way, businesses experience greater innovation, engagement, productivity, retention, and overall efficiencies.

Clients who have worked with us have expressed a resounding improvement in their enjoyment and the fulfillment experienced when going to work following the implementation of our cost neutral recommendations.

Some of the popular workshops regularly sort after by our clients are as follows:

Cultural Handbook: This is establishing your businesses ethos and behaviours that your businesses embodies and celebrates. This document gives employees a clear understanding of “how things are done around here” and is used to attract and retain employees.

Team or Business Alignment Workshop: This workshop has been designed to establish and harness alignment through the entire business, where clarity flourishes and as a result, increases productivity, profitability, and efficiency across every facet of induvial, team and business performance.

Mirrored Horizons has seen the benefit of this workshop and its positive impact on businesses through:

  • Increased empathy and understanding of one another’s positions and roles, motivations, and purpose

  • Engaged and inspired employees

  • Increased accountability across the business

  • Achieving greater collaborative success through harnessing skills, knowledge, and experiences

“The Mirrored Horizons team was able to engage my cohort effortlessly, break down barriers, build new connections whilst providing recommendations that were easy to implement to benefit my team. Their suggested strategies fostered teamwork which meant we were able to reach targets aligned with the team’s motivations and the overall morale was vastly different moving forward. I was impressed by how quickly they were able to get to the core of the group, identify our pain points, and provide solutions all within one single day!”
— Senior Leader, Curtin University, Perth, WA.
 
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