Mettle Consultings latest On Your Mettle Podcast "How Structure and Systems Link to Culture" discusses how business strategy works best when backed by congruent behaviour, symbols and systems and through aligning the culture to the businesses strategy.

The key discussion points throughout this podcast are:

1.  If culture is about ‘how things are done around here’, how does a business go about aligning or strengthening its culture? and
2. If everything including structure and systems are interlinked with strategy and culture, where does a business start in connecting strategy, culture, structure and systems?

"Culture is about how things are done around your organisation" says Heather Carmody, Director Mettle Consulting. Your culture and your organisational structures are not mutually exclusive.

It is a common perception that culture is intangible, something "just" in people’s heads’. As Catherine Glass, Director Mettle Consulting UK says, "to ignore culture is to ignore another tool you can use to drive your business." As such, being able to understand and utilise your organisation’s culture is crucial in developing effective business strategy to drive your competitive advantage. Mettle has developed tools your organisation can use to understand, analyse and shift the cultures inherent to your organisation.

Tools such as Mettle’s Culture Gauge can inform business leaders of the realities of the cultures within their organisations and how culture is affecting the bottom line: How people are performing from the top team to the front line, the way things are being done around the organisation. Armed with this information, any organisation has what they need to shift their systems, align their people’s thinking and focus business strategy. In understanding culture, your organisation can tailor its structures to avoid trying to do too many things instead of focusing on key drivers.

All companies have strengths. It is Mettle’s objective to help your organisation identify and reinforce these to their maximum capability - to find what capabilities are within your people and the mindsets and behaviours that can best work with the structures that will most effectively drive your business to the top. Mettle’s 20 years of experience in analysing and developing sound business cultures can help any organisation in aligning their people to their systems.

Find your strengths and build upon them. Leave no stone unturned, use every edge you can. Your people are an asset, utilise them to the best of their ability.

Listen to the On Your Mettle Podcast - click link: "How Structure and Systems Link to Culture"