{"id":7206,"date":"2024-11-14T11:34:03","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T00:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seedpeopleconsulting.com.au\/?p=7206"},"modified":"2026-05-16T15:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T05:37:10","slug":"culture-capability-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seedpeopleconsulting.com.au\/culture-capability-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Compassion Australia – Culture & Capability Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

Client overview<\/h3>\n

Compassion is a Christian international holistic child development organisation and exists to release children from poverty in Jesus\u2019 name. With over 130 committed team members and many more volunteers, they have a strong passion and drive to fulfil their mission with international impact.<\/p>\n

The challenges<\/h3>\n

Recognising the importance of team engagement, retention and development across the organisation, the CEO identified the need to embed a consistent culture and capability level within the team to create an engaged, committed and scalable organisation. Alongside this culture transformation, the CEO and Executive team identified the opportunity for the organisational strategy to evolve to meet the growing need, increasing poverty and the changing nature of how people give to causes that matter.<\/p>\n

Seed & Mind Street adopted a partnership approach, aligning practices and processes to ensure a smooth transition and support for Compassion. This client-centered approach ensured that Compassion\u2019s needs and desired outcomes drove focus and decision making.<\/p>\n

There was a strong focus on building internal capability within Compassion, setting the organisation up for long-term success and self-sufficiency in the years to come.<\/p>\n

Starting Point<\/h3>\n

With a changing team and the need to gain national alignment, further complicated by the post-pandemic shift to a hybrid workforce, Mind Street and Seed People Consulting were engaged to realign the culture and capability within Compassion Australia to support the delivery of the five-year strategy. This required a significant shift in both what Compassion does and how it does it to more effectively achieve its mission.<\/p>\n

The Co-designed solution<\/h3>\n

Mind Street and Seed, as a team, quickly determined the key focus areas were aligning the Executive team and embedding Compassion\u2019s values throughout all operations.<\/p>\n

Our co-design approach, in partnership with Compassion enabled joint ownership and accountability for focus areas and timings. This also enabled us to adapt to changes across the organisation to ensure the solution was fit for purpose to achieve both organisational and cultural transformation.<\/p>\n

Our joint purpose in this project was to help Compassion in achieving its ambitions with greater ease by enabling their strategy through enhanced culture, leadership capability and alignment.<\/p>\n

Initially, Seed were engaged to provide foundational organisational development support. With solid cultural and behavioural foundations laid in the initial retainer period, Compassion took the opportunity to re-engage Seed to work closely with Mind Street to build capability and confidence within Compassion.<\/p>\n

Over the course of this project, Seed and Mind Street collaborated and worked with key stakeholders at Compassion to design and execute a number of projects, including:<\/p>\n