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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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GM Culture Crisis Case Study – A Tragedy and Missed Opportunity
The GM ignition switch recall tragedy led to at least 13 deaths and was the result of 11 years of failure on many levels. It’s a live case study on a sad culture crisis we all can and must learn from since culture is the most powerful force in organizations. Rarely do we have a chance…
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How Do You Lead Your Culture NOW
Axialent culture transformation specialists, Anabel Dumlao and Thierry de Beyssac, are joined by Tim Kuppler from Human Synergistics in this webinar discussing the importance of intentionally managing your organization’s culture and leadership development.
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Embracing Constructive Styles for Organizational Success in the Era of AI
Artificial Intelligence is not just changing our future; it’s transforming our present. How do leaders navigate this rapid technological evolution? The answer lies in Constructive leadership styles and cultural norms. In our latest blog post, “Embracing Constructive Styles for Organizational Success in the Era of AI,” we explore how these styles equip leaders and teams…
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What Do People in Organizations Around the World Value Most?
Values are a key part of your organization’s culture; they affect the entire organization and its members. They can spill over to the community, influence what other organizations in your country do, and even change the world. Whether you are leading an organization located in a single country or one that operates in multiple countries…
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Addressing Quiet Quitting Through Culture Change
It seems appropriate to suggest an approach with an emphasis on culture for addressing the current challenges leaders may be facing either with respect to quiet quitting or, more generally, the impact of work environments on employee motivation, health, and performance.
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How to Find a Consultant to Really Change Corporate Culture
As organizations implement its cultural improvement activities, the culture consultant will be there to coach and advise the leadership team on how to deal with various implementation issues, risks, resistance, and other challenges that might come up. Optimally, the culture consultant draws on deep organizational knowledge and experience to provide this support.
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Key Benefits of Team-Building Activities
Probably the most common issue of supporting team-building activities is justifying the time and expense. This has always been a problem in the business world, but if your organization wants to operate in a constructive and effective way, the importance of team building and cost of related learning activities is cheap when compared to the…
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How to Build a Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Culture
The frame to understand culture is not engagement, diversity scorecards, workplace satisfaction, or other surface measures. These climate measures are visible manifestations of the culture. They may be useful but they do not provide the clarity necessary to understand “real” culture attributes like shared beliefs, assumptions, and behavioral norms along with how they play out…
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An Opportunity at Hand, Seize the Day: The Long View
Setting out to change your culture often involves taking the long view and we can help your leadership team gain clarity on and execute the key steps for this important journey.
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Southwest Airlines Reveals 5 Culture Lessons
Despite the tragic incident on Southwest Airlines’ Flight 1380 on April 17, 2018, the culture of the Best Loved Airline ensured that the accident did not tarnish its reputation. The 1380 flight crew, in an interview on CBS News, attributed their success in safely landing the plane to their shared values. Although the crew didn’t…
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An Opportunity at Hand, Seize the Day: Measuring and Shifting Culture
Organizations that develop a culture that supports key Conditions will have a competitive edge in attracting and retaining employees and promoting the teamwork, inclusion, and innovation necessary to execute strategy.