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Create Constructive Cultures and Impact the World
Over 30 years of research across thousands of organizations using the Organizational Culture Inventory® has shown positive relationships between Constructive cultural norms (that is, expectations for members to behave constructively in order to “fit in”) and motivation, engagement, teamwork, quality, external adaptability and, ultimately, profitability.
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‘Unbossed Culture’ Takes Performance To New Heights
Leaders now hold each other accountable. Their vulnerability has promoted inclusiveness, built trust and showed commitment to employees. Employees are engaged, their ideas are flowing and they’re taking ownership.
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Leadership Glue Delivers Speed, Agility, & Aligned Action
Hanes’ approach to developing their leaders is distinct in that their leaders are required to experience LSI three times before moving forward to the next level development program.
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How Quantitative and Qualitative Results Lead to Real-Time Change
The leaders at ERDMAN saw an opportunity for the senior leadership team to set the tone and expectations for the entire company and help drive needed business results. While never an overnight change, culture transformation is a vital part of an organization’s success when done correctly and ERDMAN has already begun to see the results…
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Quantifying and Aligning Workplace Culture Post-Merger
While it’s never an overnight change, culture transformation is a vital part of an organization’s success when done correctly. With 12 years of experience and the assessment tools that provided quantitative data showing where we are, where we want to go, and how we need to get there – Inclusa’s culture journey seemed attainable.
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Johnsonville Sausage: Ensuring a Culture for Growth
Members and leaders of Wisconsin-based Johnsonville Sausage have a bold vision to “be the best company on earth.” This requires that the leading national sausage brand be culturally prepared and poised for aggressive innovation on its way to growing and becoming a $1 billion company. An important step was determining whether the company’s Research and…
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Culture Shift + Leadership Development = Sustainable Results for Advocate Health Care
As the largest health system in Illinois, Advocate’s challenge was to increase and stabilize engagement, focus on culture change, and strengthen relations within a high-profile, semi-autonomous unit that struggled with negative team dynamics, unproductive work relations, and entrenched passive-aggressive behavior.
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Culture Change at HKS: Resilient and Responsive
Dallas, Texas-based architectural firm HKS Architects creates places that enhance the human experience, like the US Bank Stadium, home of the 2018 Super Bowl. After collecting employee satisfaction data for 10 consecutive years, leadership sought to better understand the current culture and the roadblocks that were inhibiting employees from taking the most successful actions.
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Ultimate Culture Webinar – What are your Blind Spots? with Jim Haudan and Rich Berens
Root Inc Chairman, Jim Haudan, and CEO and Chief Client Fanatic, Rich Berens, reveal the five most common blind spots that thwart leaders and their organizations from attaining higher levels of member engagement and creating real and meaningful strategic and culture change. They outline how to create a thriving organization by focusing on purpose over…
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The Missing C in C-Suite = Culture
Marti Wronski, General Counsel and SVP with the Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, shares: “Successful transformation happens when the majority of people in the company have aligned beliefs and when proper leadership mindsets fuel consistent action.”
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A Historic Shift in Expecting Leaders to Understand and Evolve Culture
We are experiencing a historic shift in how people view the importance of culture and culture change. As a result, most CEOs and other top leaders will be expected to understand and deal with culture challenges proactively, or they will be considered both financially and morally negligent. Yes, financially and morally negligent. We are seeing top…
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In Conversation with Edgar Schein: Answering Three Common Questions about Culture
Culture can often be like a wet bar of soap—too slippery to grasp. To harness its force, we first need to understand its nature and dynamics. And there’s no better person to help us get a handle on organizational and team culture than Edgar Schein, one of the world’s most well-known culture pioneers.
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Post #200 on CultureU – 7 Essential Insights Normally Missed in Culture Change Efforts
This milestone post is a salute to passionate and experienced culture and performance change agents. You understand the power of culture in organizations and the challenge, frustration, restlessness, and exhilaration inevitably linked to intentional culture-related action. We’re living in the absolute best time in history to be involved in meaningful culture change. Culture is finally…
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Closing the Massive Gaps Between Culture Awareness, Education, and Action
It’s time to turn the culture world upside down and explode many incorrect notions that are preventing meaningful culture change for organizations and society. We’ve reached a critical point where most leaders are aware culture is important, but they range from being confused to intentionally uninformed about what culture change is all about. This culture…
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8 Culture Change Secrets Most Leaders Don’t Understand
I spent 15 years learning and applying culture insights as a senior executive and consultant across multiple organizations before I started to proactively reach out to top culture pioneers and experts to learn about their culture facts and fundamentals. We can’t learn much about culture from the popular press and most social media is dominated…
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20 Organizational Culture Change Insights from Edgar Schein
Grâce cette publication, vous pourrez accélérer le changement de votre culture organisationnelle. Chaque leader comprendra ici les bénéfices des réflexions critiques sur la culture ainsi que la résolution de problèmes, le changement, l’engagement, la stratégie, le recrutement et le consulting avec Edgar Schein, Professeur Émérite au MIT Sloan School of Management et personnalité la plus…
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The Common Ground of Qualitative and Quantitative Culture Development Approaches (Part Two)
This is the second post from a discussion between Professor Edgar Schein, arguably the #1 workplace culture expert in the world and a strong critic of culture surveys, and Dr. Robert A. Cooke, creator of the most widely used organizational culture assessment in the world. The discussion resulted in 12 key areas of common ground…
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The Common Ground of Qualitative and Quantitative Culture Development Approaches (Part One)
What happens when you have a discussion with Professor Edgar Schein, arguably the #1 workplace culture expert in the world and a strong critic of culture surveys, and Dr. Robert A. Cooke, creator of the most widely used organizational culture assessment in the world? It was exciting to see this discussion unfold to a point…
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Workplace Culture vs. Climate – why most focus on climate and may suffer for it
Culture is a hot topic. It was the Merriam-Webster “word of the year” for 2014. Leaders and experts across the world are talking about how to develop an agile culture, implement a lean culture, overcome the culture clash in acquisitions, and many other areas of culture change. Unfortunately, the reality is that most of these…
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The Four Roots of Employee Engagement
Haven’t we talked about employee engagement enough? Nope! Because despite the amount of time, energy and effort that organizations around the globe are investing in helping engage people in work, things aren’t improving much. Weekly pizza socials, guest speakers and telecommuting options are certainly appealing. I like pizza as much as the next guy. And,…
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The first principle of successful culture shaping – The Shadow of the Leader
I wrote about the four reasons culture-shaping efforts fail in my previous post (Organizational culture has reached a tipping point, yet many culture change initiatives fail for four key reasons). But what makes them succeed? What makes some culture-change efforts successful where others become simply another ‘flavor of the week’ training session that never translates…
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A shift to culture and leadership development solves engagement enigma
To increase and stabilize engagement, a high-profile, semi-autonomous unit of Advocate Health Care chose to focus on organizational culture change, recognizing an opportunity and need to strengthen relationships within the unit as members worked to achieve their strategic goals. Using a combination of organizational and leadership assessments, as well as individual and team coaching and…
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Caring for Results and People at the Same Time
Women in leadership positions face different challenges than their male counterparts. With a foreword from New York Times bestselling author Marshall Goldsmith, Taking the Stage: Breakthrough Stories from Women Leaders sheds light on issues that actual senior female leaders faced and how they addressed and overcame those challenges. This chapter, written by Will Linssen, CEO of Heartware/Human…
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Pact Helps Change the World by First Changing its Own Organizational Culture
Mission-driven Pact is a nonprofit organization striving to eradicate poverty and strengthen local capacity in communities across the globe. Operating in 26 countries, Pact aims to give poor and marginalized individuals the tools and support they need to improve and take ownership of their futures. While Pact has always focused on empowering the people served, its own culture and the empowerment of…
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Measuring Group Styles to Improve Team Outcomes
Today’s competitive economy presents unique challenges for organizations of all kinds. This is particularly true for organizations concerned with safety management: It has become even more critical that managers have the ability to manage for continual improvement. Companies are fairly proficient at the technical or “hard” side of training, but evaluating and teaching the soft…
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Levers Proven to Drive Constructive Cultures and Effective Talent Management
How do you create a Constructive Culture—one that is proven to drive engagement, quality, profitability, and sustainability? This presentation from award-winning professor and executive Dr. Robert A. Cooke covers his widely cited model of “How Culture Works” as well as what you can do to create a Constructive culture and an effective talent management system.
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Leadership Performance at GE During the Jack Welch Era
Dr. Linda Sharkey, author and former VP of HR at GE, was able to leverage her experience with HSI assessments when she was tasked with designing a new leadership development program for GE Financial’s top 600 executives worldwide. Using Leadership/Impact®, leaders at GE were able to see their values, the impact of their behaviors on people…
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Best Practice Case Study: Building a Constructive Culture at The Word Among Us
Catholic publishing company The Word Among Us (WAU) provides more than 500,000 readers throughout the world with daily meditations, devotionals, books, and other resources that encourage Catholics to connect more deeply with their faith and act in ways that mirror the values of the church. The organization itself, however, realized that it was not reaching…
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IBM Aligns the Organizational Culture Inventory® with Lean Initiatives
In 2004, IBM was facing an increasingly competitive marketplace with higher customer expectations. At the same time, employee engagement and morale were declining. Using the Organizational Culture Inventory® (OCI®), IBM transformed the organization’s culture and experienced gains in productivity and significant cost reductions.
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Sustaining Top Talent through Positive Culture and Leadership
Dr. Linda Sharkey shares her experiences with and insights on quantifying culture and leadership. She highlights what you can do to get everyone moving in the right direction supporting your organization’s values, vision and mission.
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Employee Engagement: Is It Really “The Holy Grail” of HR?
As the economy slowly makes its way back in recovery mode, and more employees are concerned with issues beyond job security, we are beginning to see a return to a focus on “employee engagement” as the critical overriding factor within organizations that drives performance. But is that really all there is to it? Should companies…