Culture-proofing Your Business
At Transnet, our employees are our heartbeat, and we understand that we should protect what we value most – our employees. So how do you protect your assets and your organisation against the constant “permacrisis” era that we operate in? By instilling an organizational culture that enables, empowers and inspires them. We needed a culture that is for our people, by our people. Therefore, Transnet’s culture transformation journey was grounded in a hybrid top-down and bottom-up approach – every employee had the opportunity to co-create it. We secured our culture fan through a verifiable process of validation, communication and transparency.
We realized that we have limited control of outside elements that may pose a threat to our assets (our employees) – but we can safeguard them though the following:
- Leadership
- Inclusion & Collaboration
- Training
- Reinforcement
- Change Management
On our culture transformation journey, we continually evolve and refine and identify new safeguards to protect our assets. We are intentional about choosing the right insurance for the right threat. We continue to pursue a high-performance culture to ensure our most valuable assets are well looked after.
Three Tangible Learnings:
- Learning 1: Valuing employees – how to bring employees along on the journey
- Learning 2: The importance of leadership
- Learning 3: Consistency and transparency
