The art of culture

Culture can seem like a difcult concept to grasp yet we all know that each team (or organization) has a unique feel. This is an individual assignment. This exercise helps you capture the feeling of your team (or organization) by drawing a picture of how you see it now and depicting your vision for a collaborative, interdisciplinary, patient-centered culture for the future.

 1. Think about how it feels to work where you work. Write some adjectives or short phrases that describe your culture and/or a metaphor that you have used that describes the culture. 

2. Draw a picture of the current culture of your team or organization as it feels to you now. I am not grading on artistic ability.

3. Now think about how you would like the culture to be in the next 35 years. Write some adjectives or short phrases that describe your culture and/or a metaphor that you have used that describes the culture. 

4. Draw a picture of the new culture.

 5.  Look at the two pictures. What do you think can be done to help change this culture? What is something you can change about your own behavior or attitude that may facilitate this change? How can you inuence others to work towards a positive culture change in your organization?

I work in dialysis as a technician