core principles
To support the cultural transfiguration process in your organization or system, we work with the following core principles. This means we consider them across all professional services offered.
They have been developed by Transfiguration Advisory based on some of the world’s most successful examples of culture evolution at scale, the leading culture and change theory and research-backed approaches and is rooted in real life experience working on culture with hundreds of organizations across geographies and industries.
The theory and research-backed approaches include psychology, personal development, awareness-based systems change, organizational culture change and insights from ancient wisdom traditions.
- Culture is one of the top 3 drivers of performance and employee wellbeing (often #1)
- Culture is hard to objectively measure and thus manage – howevever many have cracked the code
- Working on culture requires a constant bridging between the theory and practical experience
- Every system has progressive, evolutionary tendencies in the form of people, teams, ideas and processes
- Identifying, and supporting them, speeds up the system’s evolution
- Taking a trauma informed approach – honouring trauma as an intelligent response of the system, however often staying too long, dissipating energy
- There is a small number of ‘highest ROI’ acupuncture points in a system
- They are hard to identify given that the ability to see them is influenced by the culture itself
- They change quickly – and are often different within months
- Shaping culture, in particular in large systems, is highly complex
- Building the ability of the system to see itself creates capacity to process this complexity
- Creating awareness starts with the leadership team
- A complex system cannot be understood with one perspective, no matter how good it may be
- A conscious decision of which perspectives to take made for each situation is needed
- Pattern recognition across perspectives is where the value comes from – and MetaMindsets help frame this sense making process