Company Culture visualized an made touchable. Talk description in the conference leaf let: Have you ever found a Plaxiglass cube or similar symbolic dust catcher on your desk a random morning coming to work? Giving it a closer look, you find the ‘companies values’ or the ‘how we are and behave principles’ or similar. This felt very cheesy to me and I decided to do it differently with my teams. We seat together an started to discuss about our current culture at engineering department… The outcome was an hidden picture, as you may know it from Mordillo or from reading to your kids. What happend when we hang up the picture to our office wall and how it influenced the companies culture for good, will be content of my talk. Happy to see you there and can’t wait for discussion and questions after the talk.

1. Philipp
Engstler
Company Culture -
Plexiglas cube vs. hidden picture
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4. Purpose, Autonomy, Mastery
Find your true reason(s) why you form a group with co-workers,
mates, friends.
Now to a real World example from a Team I did lead…
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6. https://www.fotocommunity.de/photo/fremdkoerpe
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Capture your culture - crop - visualize.
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8. Purpose, Autonomy, Mastery
To become a strong team, repeating reflection on team behaviors,
habits,
principles and values is a must, within your team.
This will trigger discussions around culture and will change our
behavior already.
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9. What is our culture?
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11. Introducing the hidden picture...
• Stick it to the wall
• Wait for people standing in
front of your manifesto
• Explain to interested people
• Ask for feedback
• Listen to various perceptions
• Iterate and adapt
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12. Spreading the word - let it go viral
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13. Catching acceptance
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15. Sparks create wild fires - support with gasoline! ;-)
(Spring, 2016)
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16. Purpose, Autonomy, Mastery
Reflect on regular bases, make it a living document and keep the
‚as-is‘ culture up-to-date.
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17. Merge the two units in an agile matter
(March, 2017)
• In a self selecting process
• during a 2 day big room meeting
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18. Conclusion
Cultural work must be an integral piece of work
https://www.facebook.com/goalcast/videos/1329431127134074/
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19. Stay agile!
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20. Philipp Engstler, agile coach, Interim Leader
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