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Company Culture 6:23 25 February 2025

The Hidden Layers of Organisational Culture: Schein’s Iceberg Model (and how to use it)

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Edgar Schein’s Organisational Culture Iceberg Model is a popular framework to help us understand culture at its deepest level. In this video, I explain the Cultural Iceberg Model, provide some contexts on what this might look like and sound like in an organisation, and provide one way you can use it to help you develop and evolve your own culture.

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⌚️TIME STAMPS ⌚️

0:00 Intro

1:37 Where it comes from

2:11 Layers of the culture iceberg

3:19 Examples in context

4:17 How to use the iceberg model

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