2. Who are we?
Liz Murphy,
Group head
Talent and culture
Melissa Dean,
Director Transformation Management,
Wealth Management
Susan Turton, Organisational
effectiveness, Emerging Markets
Serena Naidu, head of Pleuntje van Meer
Employee Engagement, External Consultant/
Nedbank Coach
3. Our agenda
Old Mutual’s journey of transformation: a practitioners’ perspective
Wealth: building capacity and top team alignment
Group: taking the work group-wide
Emerging markets: a rolling start
Nedbank: Year-year sustaining the journey
Q&A
4. Design principles
Old Mutual’s journey of transformation: a practitioners’ perspective
1. Strategy, Structure, Culture
• Clarity of direction => vision& purpose
• Organising to match the above
• Quality of interaction => capability& mindset
1. Not a roadmap => Initiating waves
• Leadership
• Building internal capacity
• TTT
6. Alignment requires a shared experience:
From: Non-Aligned Group To: Aligned Team
• Hidden agendas • Transparency
• Empire building • Collective
1. Expanded self-
responsibility
• Silo thinking awareness
• Dialogue
• Slow decision making 2. Deeper
understanding of • Decision making
• Lack of each team • Accountability
innovation/creativity members reality
• Blame 3. Joint direction
It has to get personal. “Safe” environment, based on trust;
A superficial, conversation will make Skilled facilitation; A well designed
things worse. and proven process
7. Roles in Culture Transformation
Roles responsibilities
ExCo -Walk the talk, be a role. Keep the transformation programme honest
-Accountable for culture shifts and healthy behaviours
-Not to drive cultural transformation as an HR intitiative
Culture Leads -Walk the talk
- Mentor and challenge top leadership, facilitate conversations
-Skilled in applying methodology and extensive toolset for
transformation
- Not allowing blame and dysfnctional behaviours
HR - Act as Culture Transformation facilitators+ knowledge of CTT
assessment& facilitation
-Trained as Culture Leads or guides and operate hand-hand with
business leaders
- Not to own the culture agenda nor to drive the plans- this belongs to
the business
9. Getting started….
Global
Financia
l Crisis New Vision: One Group with the
customer at the centre
Values in practice: ACT NOW!
leadership actions
Personal Values
Individual values assessments
and personal values
Metrics and Case studies
...building curiosity, making it safe
10. Engaging everyone....
2011 2012
Response rate: 70% Response rate: 73%
Individual Group values
business ACT NOW!
cultures
...Connecting over controlling
12. The OMEM Story
1. Started introducing the Culture Tool in 2011
Education and awareness
Building capability
2. Year two (2012), Leadership alignment
Work together to strengthen the culture
Tell the story to the rest of the business
Role model what this journey is suppose to look like
3. Year three (2013) will be about building a broad Leadership Transformation Programme
Engage a base of Culture Leads to support Leadership
Shift and build the culture
Challenge
Create awareness
13. The OMEM Story: creating engagement
1. Our culture story has been one of celebration
Embracing the ethos
High Participation
Great Results
Key Questions: how do we strengthen our results going forward?
2. Many Employee Engagement drivers and a compelling EVP
Key shifts: Best Employer SA and Top Employer Africa as two examples
This recognition contributes to our culture shift
Key Challenge: continuing to strengthen our Employee Engagement drivers into the future
16. Current Culture Evolution
2009 2010 2011 2012
1. accountability 1. accountability 1. accountability 1. accountability
2. client-driven 2. client satisfaction 2. client-driven 2. client satisfaction
3. client satisfaction 3. client-driven 3. client satisfaction 3. client driven
4. cost-consciousness 4. teamwork 4. brand reputation 4. brand reputation
5. community involvement 5. brand reputation 5. achievement 5. teamwork
6. achievement 6. being the best 6. teamwork 6. environmental awareness
7. teamwork 7. achievement 7. environmental awareness 7. employee recognition
8. employee recognition 8. commitment 8. commitment 8. performance driven
9. being the best 9. community involvement 9. being the best 9. community involvement
10. performance driven 10. cost-consciousness 10. cost-consciousness 10. people-centred
6 matches 6 matches 6 matches 5 matches
Entropy 13% Entropy 13% Entropy 11% Entropy 10%
17. Overarching Conceptual Framework that continues to
shape our journey…
The lessons that we have learnt along the *Overarching Change Methodology
way guide our approach…
•Cultural change needs to be
supported by various levers. From an Transforming Intact,
HR perspective, all initiatives are Transforming the Individual Natural Teams
geared to enhance our culture journey
•The transformation of 2000 leaders
through LFDG has proved to be a
tipping point for a major change
• This programme is being cascaded to Personal Leadership:- (e.g.)
the next +/- 7000 in the next 3-5 Leading for Deep Green (LFDG) Team Leadership:- :(e.g.)
Coaching & Mentoring Leading for Deep Green (LFDG)
years, this can only strengthen our Diversity Management Programmes
Talent Management
gains
Transforming Organisational Culture Transforming Inter-Team Relationship
•Measurement still matters- ‘what we
can measure we can manage’. Next
step is to measure behaviours linked
to our values and leadership
philosophy
Strategic Context
•Cultural capital is the outcome of
everything that we do and continue to
Communities of Leaders :- (e.g.) Lateral Leadership:- :(e.g.)
be accelerated through 3 levers:
Transformation Succession Planning (cross-cluster)
•Values-based leadership, LFDG Systematic themes Talent Management
strategy and transformation
*Change Framework as adapted from Leading For Deep Green
Key messages: Leadership role-modelling is key Build up capacity early in the process (in HR and leadership facilitation)
To develop healthy, high performing cultures in each business, reflective of the Old Mutual core values and leadership actions described in ACT NOW! To continue to embed ACT NOW! as our values in practice