Amara & Co. Professional Services
Professional practice, legal and advisory
Context
A competitive internal culture was quietly discouraging the collaboration client work required.
Signal
Individual performance was tracked and rewarded closely, but cross-team collaboration on complex client matters had become rare and reluctant.
Diagnosis
Culture scored as mixed-to-competitive, and communication between practice groups scored notably lower than communication within them.
Intervention
A values-to-behavior audit and a redesigned recognition structure that credited collaborative contribution alongside individual results.
Shift
Cross-practice collaboration on client matters increased, and internal survey language shifted from 'competitive' toward 'collaborative' for the first time in three years.
Lesson
What gets measured and rewarded shapes culture more reliably than what gets said in a values statement.
Engagement timeline
Before / after (illustrative)
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