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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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The Top Reasons for Successful Culture Change
Successful culture change is a leadership commitment, not a project. Leadership is about action—behaving in new ways that set an example. Commitment is needed because employees look to the leaders to see whether their behaviors align with their words.
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An Opportunity at Hand, Seize the Day
Rarely are organizational leaders presented with an inflection point where they have an opportunity to shape the future of their organization’s workplace. The timing is perfect for a strategic-level conversation to ensure the organization’s mission and purpose inspire employees to achieve.
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Nonprofit Organizational Culture Assessment Findings
The usefulness of organizational culture as a construct for research and an assessment tool for organizations has been well established over the past decades.1 While research and practice involving organizational culture are, to a large extent, associated with for-profit organizations, crucial work in the usefulness of understanding organizational culture for non-profit organizations and its actual…
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Stress and Well-Being in the Workplace
Stress and well-being have been implicated as being associated with employees’ physical health, motivation, and job satisfaction. With proper planning, leaders can help reduce stress and optimize employees’ mental health and these related outcomes.
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Culture and Hybrid Workplaces: Q&A follow-up
Dr. Robert Cooke and Cathleen Cooke respond to questions and comments following their webinar on the timely subject of Culture and Hybrid Workplaces.
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Culture Change Agents and their Role in Transforming Organizations
Being an agent of change for an organization’s culture requires solid strategic and communications skills. Those experienced in helping organizations to change their culture confirm that it can be a massive undertaking.
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Changing to a Thriving Culture
With a solid mission in place, a focus on the ideal culture, along with improved processes and procedures and more-clearly defined roles, leaders and members know where they’re headed and how to get there.
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Unfear: An Inside Out Approach to Business Transformation
Instead of letting fear drive knee-jerk, dysfunctional reactions, we seek to help people transform their relationship to fear so they can recognize fear when it arises and discover a new, constructive and creative response to it.
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Choose Thriving Cultures in 2022
Having spent a lifetime helping and healing organizations, Kathy Hagler assures us that we can move from crisis to creation. It’s all about choice. Most of us are good at knowing what we don’t want, but not what we do want. This causes us to react subconsciously as opposed to intentionally and consciously setting a…