As a manager, your first task is to determine the culture of your organization.  Using the results, you can map out an approach for meeting current changes that are useful to you.  The first three steps of the REACH™ tool help determine what makes your company tick and how you can more effectively navigate its structure to determine what type of change is most beneficial.  Then you will discover how to draw on trends to successfully shift the landscape of how your business runs more efficiently. 

• Root – Study your organization’s history and understand how it got to its current state and what makes it grow and evolve.
• Establish – Determine the fundamental elements of your corporate culture.  Do they align you’re your overall strategy?  What is necessary to change?
• Assess – Analyze what is working and determine what improvements will benefit the whole.  Break these down in order of critical importance and impact to the organization.

The process of change and building on your successes will come later and focusing on these three steps will define your cultural approach.