1. Setting a Positive Organizational Climate and Culture
Army FM 6-22, CTM, LDP and You

2. Training Objective
Task: Understand the importance of setting a positive organizational climate and culture
Condition: Given a block of instruction taught by the AC for Leadership using FM 6-22, the CTM, and LDP, followed by objective questions
Standard: Identify ways to create a positive organizational climate and culture in your organizations

3. Organizational Climate
How members feel about the organization
Comes from shared perceptions and attitudes about the organization’s daily functioning
Generally a short-term experience, depending on a network of personalities in an organization
Changes as people come and go
ADRP 6-22

4. Positive Climate at The Citadel
“Good leaders strive to leave an organization better than they found it and expect other leaders to do the same” – FM 6-22
Create a positive environment
Prepare self
Develop others
“We have put on paper the essentials for teaching, training, leading, and inspiring others toward success” – CTM
Expectations
Skills
Feedback
Consequences
Growth
“The Citadel Experience is built upon The Citadel’s core values and is integrated across the four pillars of Academics, Military, Moral-Ethical, and Physical Effectiveness” -- LDP

5. Creating a Positive Climate
Fairness and inclusiveness
Open and candid communication
Learning environment
Assessing climate
Dealing with ethics and climate
Building teamwork and cohesion
Encouraging initiative
Demonstrating care for people
Linkage between this, CTM & LDP?

6. Preparing Yourself Expected and unexpected challenges
Physical fitness (Regimental PT)
Intellectual capacity, critical thinking, domain knowledge (LTPs)
Education—on and off duty (Grad certificate)
Expanding knowledge
Applying and experiencing what it means (Academies)
Developing self-awareness
Awareness of one’s traits, feelings, and behaviors (CTM and LDP)

7. Developing Others Assessing needs Developing on the job
Expectations and Feedback
Developing on the job
Skills
Supporting professional and personal growth
Expectations, Skills, and Growth
Helping people learn
Skills and Feedback
Counseling, coaching, and mentoring
Expectations, Skills, Feedback, Consequences, and Growth
Building team skills and processes

8. LDP Learning Outcomes
1st Class Year military pillar learning outcomes associated with organizational climate and culture:
“Create command climate for standards and regulations compliance”
“Establish and assess a training environment that develops people”
“Create and assess a state of… collective resiliency in the unit”

9. Organizational Culture
A longer lasting and more complex set of shared experiences than climate
Consists of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterize the larger institution over time
Deeply rooted in long-held beliefs customs, and practices
Leaders use culture to let people know they are part of something bigger than just themselves
ADRP 6-22

10. Culture There are three different levels of culture Artifacts
What individuals can see on the surface
Shared values
The significant values, morals, and beliefs claimed to be especially important by leaders in the organization
Basic assumptions
How situations or problems within the organization are treated after repetition
“Understanding Your Organization’s Culture” by Kristina Ricketts

11. Your Battalion’s Culture
What artifacts are present in your battalion?
What do those artifacts represent to an upperclass male cadet?
An upperclass female cadet?
A fourthclass cadet?
A TAC?
A parent?
A non-Citadel affiliated visitor?

12. Your Battalion’s Culture
What shared values are present in your battalion?
To what degree are they aligned with The Citadel’s shared values?
To what degree are they consistent in each company?
To what degree are they consistent among all types of cadets?
Upperclass and fourthclass?
Contracted and not?
Cadet athlete and not?
Chain of command and not?

13. Your Battalion’s Culture
What basic assumptions are present in your battalion?
What words describe how formations are conducted?
How are regulations violations dealt with?
How is positive performance reinforced?
What words describe how the fourthclass system is implemented?
What words describe how guard is conducted?
Remember that “basic assumptions” refers to “how situations or problems within the organization are treated after repetition.” Are recurring activities and events conducted de jure or de facto?
Unit
SOP

14. Leader Competencies To create a positive climate, leaders:
Establish and maintain positive expectations and attitudes to support effective work behaviors and healthy relationships
Improve the organization while accomplishing the mission
Leave the organization better than it was when they arrived
ADRP 6-22

15. Conclusion
FM 6-22 dedicates significant time to concept of creating positive climate
Cadets see inverse relationship between positive climate and “leadership”
Attrition is the Mission
Hazing
Abusive treatment of women
CTM and LDP are Citadel-specific tools we have to counter this notion
CTM coupled with TAC leadership can turn this tide and illustrate true leadership for cadets

16. How Are We Currently Doing?
Current impediments to a Positive Climate?
Traditions, artifacts, phrases, etc?
Creating a positive climate is more than just the absence of a negative one
Proactive steps to take?