
Learn to align organizational culture and individual values to move beyond diversity inclusion, identify areas of cultural concern, foster real change, and measure course effectiveness.
Explore a classroom exercise where students identify six admired individuals, compare differences across race, sex, disability, age, and other categories, and reflect on aligning personal values with company values.
Align culture and values to reduce turnover, protect public image, and boost employee engagement, as misalignment drives costly losses in clients and revenue.
Learn how aligning culture with core values such as integrity, service, and excellence boosts respect for diversity and reduces misconduct, illustrated by Airmen's Week case study and course design guidance.
Identify areas of cultural concern where corporate and individual values clash, and explore additional misalignments through guided suggestions and deeper analysis.
Survey your employees to uncover real concerns using anonymous surveys and focus groups with proper permission. Ask open-ended and Likert-scale questions, ensure confidentiality, and take notes rather than recording.
Identify pre-existing resources like climate assessments and exit interviews, access aggregated data through human resources, consider privacy constraints, and analyze alignment with organizational values to shape training.
Explore what values mean in your company and for employees, and learn how cultural alignment with those values drives success while preventing misalignment from derailing progress.
Core values shape an organization's culture by guiding internal behavior and external relationships, and are usually summarized in a mission statement for both large and small businesses.
Align individual values with organizational values through a word cloud exercise, showing how personal values can strengthen company culture when integrated with core values.
Clarify how each role enables others and sustains the whole organization, from finance clerks to front-line staff. See how this perspective strengthens culture and aligns values beyond diversity and inclusion.
secure leadership buy-in by appointing a champion and presenting a clear outline, securing verbal and written support to walk the walk and align culture with values.
Guard against cultural drift by continually reinforcing your culture and values through recurring alignment training for leaders and all new employees to inoculate against degradation.
Explore how to internalize values and culture by connecting lessons to students’ lives, applying domains of learning and writing course objectives, using classroom methods to strengthen online culture and values.
Explore Bloom's taxonomy to understand cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains, and learn how internalizing values and culture through affective learning shapes workplace behavior.
Develop objectives using the affective domain pyramid, guiding students from receiving and responding to valuing, organization, and characterization to internalize values and align with organizational culture.
Facilitate open conversations that surface cultural concerns through a guided, non-attribution session, supported by leadership messages and HR safeguards, to listen respectfully and clear the air.
Empower organizational culture to speak out without retaliation by senior leaders reinforcing in-person messages, enabling peers to challenge misaligned behaviors and uphold company values.
Ethical simulators present moral dilemmas rooted in your organization's core values, guiding students to align personal values with the company values through guided discussion and peer scenarios.
Explore how the Kirkpatrick four-level evaluation guides you to plan backward from results to measure responding, learning, behavior, and culture alignment through surveys and climate assessments.
Align culture and values with organizational purpose by using leading indicators to boost retention, reduce costs, and improve productivity, measured through assessments and testimonials.
Align values to improve company culture by showing how to sync student values with your organization, plus tools to reinforce learning and methods to prove impact.
While diversity and inclusion classes serve a very important function, they are often just seen as check-marks on a compliance list. They are frequently seen as a listing of what a person should and should not say or do while at work…but they don’t bring around any lasting personal change in the employees. Much of this behavior is due to a misalignment of values between the employee and the organization.
Learn to Build an Impactful Course that Positively Changes Culture
- Discover and align student and corporate values
- Find ways to internalize your course material
- Build a strong course proposal
- Measure course results effectively and realistically
Discover techniques to focus everyone on internalizing core values
This class focuses on helping you bring about internal change. It does this by helping you, as a learning professional or business owner, develop a course for your organization that looks at both the core values of your organization and those of the individual employee. Then it shows you how to get students to align those two sets of values so that they exist in harmony. It demonstrates methods to actually get students to internalize their lessons and have them become part of who they are, rather than a rote list of actions or behaviors they should perform.
Using material presented here, you will be enabled to make a powerful argument for implementing a cultural alignment class for your organization. You will also be introduced to some resources for uncovering the root causes for any cultural misalignment. Additionally, by highlighting some of the significant risks and potential outcomes of these misalignments revealed in this course, you will be able to add impact to any training proposal.
Being able to quantify the value of training is always difficult. However, this course, built on the foundations of a program that successfully internalized values and brought about positive change in the US Air Force will not only show you how to build an effective class, but also how to measure its impact and success.