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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

4
  • If you have not changed culture,
  • you have not changed anything.

5
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.

6
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

7
  • 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

8
  • 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

9
  • 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.

10
  • 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.

11
  • 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?

13
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?

14
  • 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

15
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?

16
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?
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