ATD Kuwait Summit and Exhibition

Deep Dive Workshop
Creating an Agile and Learning Organization: Mastering and Leading Culture Change 

In today’s business landscape, CEOs are increasingly recognizing the pivotal role of corporate culture in driving performance. Trompenaars Hampden-Turner offers Defining a learning culture can be difficult, yet highly impactful once achieved. This 90-minute workshop will offer a transformative approach to address your unique business challenges by integrating culture into every facet of your organization, with leaders leading by example.  This practice-filled workshop will be led by Fons Trompenaars, one of the Top 20 Most Influential International Thinkers, inductee to the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame, and awarded the 2023 prestigious George Petitpas Award by The World Federation of People Management Associations (WFPMA). 

As Peter Drucker famously said, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” We believe that Strategy eats Culture for Lunch. So let’s have dinner together. Culture defines how your organization operates and responds to challenges, both internal and external. It shapes behaviours, values, and norms, creating a foundation for success. When aligned with your business objectives, culture becomes a powerful enabler, supporting your company’s ambitions and identity.

This session will start with a plenary of Fons introducing the four-step approach to shaping and building cultural transformation, followed by a workshop session allowing you to work in a dynamic setting of teams. This session will enable you to navigate change while fostering a culture of continuous learning and performance to drive business objectives and remain agile. 

Objectives
The objectives of the workshop will be to enable you to:

• Explore the principles and strategies of effective change leadership in dynamic organizational environments. 
• Understand how cultural factors interplays within the dynamics of organizational culture and influence job performance and learning effectiveness.
• Develop practical skills, strategies, and competencies for effective cooperation and synergy in multicultural and virtual team settings.
• Understand the influence of diversity on team performance and build effective work relationships across cultural boundaries.
• Understand the Reconciliation Methodology, using examples and cases to illustrate people and change management through addressing the tensions resulting from different value orientations.
• Foster collaboration and exchange of best practices to enhance change leadership skills.

Deliverables
You’ll leave this session with:

• Strategies for creating a culture of continuous learning and adaptation within teams and across departments. 
• Awareness of the business and cultural dilemmas.
• A tool—Dilemma Reconciliation—to bridge and take advantage of cultural differences.
• Ability to replicate this in other situations moving forward.
• Tools to improve communication strategies for facilitating change and fostering buy-in from stakeholders at all levels. 
• Awareness of the required skills for designing and implementing change management plans that prioritize flexibility, innovation, and resilience 
• Post interactive digital resource

Focus: Learning and Performance Culture