Driving cross-regional culture change across geographically dispersed middle management teams

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Background



Client


R&D executive leader, top 10 pharma company


Challenge


Meaningfully address gaps in management ‘soft-skills’ across a geographically dispersed R&D function to enable sustained culture change

Solution


Insocius built a comprehensive training curriculum for managers focused on specific behaviours that needed to change to allow a wider culture shift


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Data driven
Using data from employee and leader questionnaires and focus groups, defined and targeted specific behaviours for improvement to address barriers to achieving desired culture

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Bespoke training curriculum
Developed soft skills “university”, a virtual training curriculum for people managers to build capabilities in; fostering collaboration, active listening, empowering teams and inclusiveness

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Sustained activity for behavioural change
Comprising of six training sessions over four months for each manager, dedicated classes enabled trainers to build rapport and deliver more impactful change

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Modelling desired behaviour
Best and bad practices were demonstrated and then role played for each of the targeted behaviours to model and embed best practice

Results

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Employee survey demonstrated employees recognised that leaders were ‘walking the talk’ by actively changing their behaviors

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Anecdotal evidence provided by executive leadership team of managers employing desired soft skills in real-life interactions

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Client Feedback



“While culture shifts are slow in large organisations, early indicators show strongly positive results


Head R&D HR
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