What Most Consultants Miss...
Many attempts at change fail in part because “culture eats strategy for breakfast.”
When we make chages "on the top of the iceberg," in terms of programs, worship, strategies, etc. those changes or experiments can:
- fail,
- struggle, or
- "snap back"
because we did not pay attention to the values and beliefs "beneath the iceberg." Those values and beliefs "below the iceberg" create the organization's culture. Your culture determines norms for, "How we do things around here."
We help organizations become aware of and transition their internal culture, the values and beliefs below the water line that inform, “how we do things around here,” to ensure transformational success.
We help you make a CULTURAL PIVOT before leading change so that your, "culture does not eat YOUR strategy for breakfast!"
The greatest challenge that sits at the core of much of the church’s stagnation, inefectiveness and conflict, is that our churches tend to function as boundary-less systems with little to no accountability resulting in power struggles and chaos.
Ultimately people get hurt.
All because we don’t tend to the systemic challenges beneath the surface.