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Shape the culture

Culture Science Cards

Make culture something you can see, hold and change — at the level of the team and the whole organisation.

The problem

Culture is the strongest force in any organisation — and the hardest to get hold of.

Everyone feels it; almost no one can point to it. So most attempts to change culture stop at the surface — new values on the wall, a fresh set of behaviours to perform — while the real drivers, the shared assumptions a team takes for granted, go untouched. Do that, and the culture quietly springs back to exactly where it was.

The idea

Make the invisible drivers visible — and workable.

Culture Science Cards turn behavioural and organisational science into something a team can pick up, talk about and act on. Each card surfaces one of the shared stories and assumptions that actually run the place — so a group can see the culture it's really operating, not the one on the poster.

It's the Square Peg method at the level of the collective: see the story a group is running together, and change the fit — deliberately, and out loud.

In practice

Simple enough to use around a table.

In a workshop or a team meeting, people use the cards to name what's really going on, find where the culture fits the strategy and where it's forcing people, and choose what to shift. No jargon, and no consultant required to operate them — though we're always glad to be in the room.

the deck in use
A photo of the cards on a table will live here.
Who it's for

For anyone trying to move a culture that won't move.

Leaders & executive teams People & culture / HR Intact teams Coaches & facilitators

Put to work in culture change, team development, post-merger integration, or any time the culture no longer fits the ambition. Works at team and whole-organisation scale.

Where it fits

One instrument in the Square Peg system.

Culture Science Cards are the collective, cultural layer of a single connected toolkit — they share one language and one idea with everything else, so competence built with one transfers to the next.

See the whole system →

Two ways in

Get the cards, or bring them to your people.

The product

Explore Culture Science Cards

See what's in the deck, how it works, and get your own set — on the dedicated Culture Science Cards site.

Visit culturesciencecards.com
With Square Peg

Bring them to your team

Have us facilitate a session with the cards, or licence them for your own facilitators. Start with a 20-minute call.

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