Mapping Organizational Culture
Mapping Organizational Culture is a relationship mapping exercise that helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- Before you begin mapping, review with the group the Culture Map sections. A garden plays a useful analogy:
- The outcomes in your culture are the fruits. These are the things you want your culture to achieve, or what you want to “harvest” from your garden.
- The behaviors are the heart of your culture. They’re the positive or negative actions people perform everyday that will result in a good or bad harvest.
- Map the Culture of industry competitors or an aspirational company
- The Culture Map was developed byDave Gray and Strategyzer AG.
- The Culture Map was developed by Dave Gray and Strategyzer AG.
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Prompts to use +
Before you begin mapping, review with the group the Culture Map sections. A garden plays a useful analogy:
The outcomes in your culture are the fruits. These are the things you want your culture to achieve, or what you want to “harvest” from your garden.
The behaviors are the heart of your culture. They’re the positive or negative actions people perform everyday that will result in a good or bad harvest.
Map the Culture of industry competitors or an aspirational company
The Culture Map was developed byDave Gray and Strategyzer AG.
The Culture Map was developed by Dave Gray and Strategyzer AG.
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Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or your own local model: paste this prompt and your AI will co-facilitate this exercise with you.
Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Mapping Organizational Culture. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Before you begin mapping, review with the group the Culture Map sections. A garden plays a useful analogy:; The outcomes in your culture are the fruits. These are the things you want your culture to achieve, or what you want to “harvest” from your garden.; The behaviors are the heart of your culture. They’re the positive or negative actions people perform everyday that will result in a good or bad harvest.; Map the Culture of industry competitors or an aspirational company. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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- Where we observed it: The strongest current observations come from Gamestorming; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (2 sources observed, including Gamestorming, SessionLab.)
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- No efficacy claims: appearing in this library is not a claim that the exercise is proven effective. Facilitator judgment and context decide whether it works for a given room.
- Corrections: if you have evidence of an earlier or more accurate source, read our methodology and trust boundary and tell us.