Checklist/Reflection after Video 1: Leadership Alignment

 

Checklist:

• Identify the top leader motivation and their objectives
• Understand the top leader's beliefs, strengths, and weaknesses
• Assess your fit as an HRBP with this leader
• Evaluate the leader's investment in cultural change
• Align the business strategy with the desired culture
• Identify behaviors that will drive the business strategy
• Assess the current organizational culture
• Observe and document prevalent behaviors
• Analyze the origins and duration of these behaviors
• Determine the benefits and drawbacks of current behaviors
• Evaluate what is working well in the current culture
• Identify areas where the culture is holding the organization back
• Analyze the current top leadership team / top 10% of leaders
• Compare current behaviors of top leadership to the model culture
• Measure the top leadership team's investment in cultural change

Reflection Questions

Top Leader's Goals and Characteristics

• What does your top leader want to achieve?
• Who is this person?
• What do they believe in?
• What are their strengths and weaknesses?
• Am I, as an HRBP, a good match for this leader?

Leader's Investment in Cultural Change

• How invested is your leader in changing the culture?
• What steps have they taken to demonstrate this investment?

Business Strategy and Culture Alignment

• What is the business strategy?
• What culture would support that business strategy?

Behavioral Drivers

• What types of behaviors would lead to success?

Current Culture Assessment

• What is the culture currently present?
• What behaviors are you observing?
• How long have these behaviors been present?
• Where are these behaviors stemming from?
• How have these behaviors been serving the organization?

Evaluating Current Culture

• What is working well about the current culture?
• Where is the culture holding the organization back?

Leadership Team Analysis

• What is the current top leadership team or top 10% of leaders like?
• How close or far are they behaving to the model culture?
• How is the top leadership team invested in cultural change?
• How do they track against the desired culture?