Team 2019
Culture Design Canvas
Ten blocks that treat culture as a design problem: purpose and values in the middle, behaviors and rituals around them.
What it is
Razzetti's map of how a culture actually operates: purpose and core values at the center, ringed by priorities, behaviors, rituals, feedback, decision-making, meetings, norms and rules, and psychological safety. Teams fill it twice: the culture they have, then the culture they want, and work the gaps.
Reach for it when
- A leadership team says "culture" weekly and means ten different things
- Two merging teams need their unwritten rules written down
- A remote team's norms grew by accident and it shows
Running it
- Map the current culture first, brutally. Post-its, small groups per block, 60 to 90 minutes.
- Vote the three blocks with the biggest say-do gap.
- Design the future state for those three blocks only. Whole-canvas redesigns don't survive contact with Monday.
- Turn each into one ritual or rule change with an owner and a date.
Watch out: Values written by the loudest executive aren't culture, they're wallpaper. Fill the canvas bottom-up before leadership edits it.
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This workshop was incredibly effective for our remote team! We adapted it slightly for a virtual setting and it worked wonderfully. The key was breaking into smaller breakout rooms.
Great resource! One tip: prepare all materials the day before to avoid any last-minute rushes.
Used this for our quarterly planning session. The structured approach really helped us stay on track!