Your Guide to Conducting a Baseline Culture Audit
January 26, 2024
Whether you have a healthy culture or are struggling with toxic behaviors — you must begin by surveying the culture to establish a clear starting point.
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The Behaviors You Tolerate Might Be Killing Your Culture
December 12, 2023
Many organizations believe they’ve laid out clear culture expectations. Yet, if we were to point them to actual behaviors, we might uncover a different reality.
Strategy Stuck? It May Be Time to Shift Your Culture
August 14, 2023
While the prospect of culture change may feel daunting at first, it’s not as scary, overwhelming, or impossible as you might fear. With the right framework and process, a culture transformation can be distilled into practical steps and behaviors that get people at all levels of the organization rowing in the same direction.
3 Steps for Building Human-Centered Workplaces
July 28, 2023
Checking the culture box isn’t enough. Culture has taken center stage and every CEO has taken notice. But creating an organizational culture that attracts talent, drives employee engagement, and informs business strategy is challenging for even the strongest leaders.
Archetypes: The Key to Unlocking Leadership Potential
July 13, 2023
Leaders are looking to get the best out of individuals and teams, but to do so they must first get the best out of themselves.
Why A Half-Hearted Culture Initiative is Worse Than None
June 28, 2023
The moment you survey a team to ask their opinion on cultural issues, you must be prepared to share authentic results and an action plan to create change. If you don’t, engagement and morale will be negatively affected.
A Culture Transformation Case Study
May 19, 2023
CultureTalk Partner Reynaldo Naves and his associates at Olivia Global had a big assignment: transform the culture and create cultural consistency across multiple brands underneath Brazil’s largest fashion retailer in-step with operations integration and technological advancements. This was a successful company with a great reputation and wide reach. They had already found a winning formula, so it had to be asked “How do we move around the parts and pieces of this organization without breaking anything that works?” The intervention had to be deliberate and precise.
[Podcast] Measuring, Growing, and Sustaining Culture
March 8, 2023
Culture can be measured. It can be grown. It can be sustained. Listen as culture development expert and certified CultureTalk Partner DJ Hurula and special guests Cynthia Forstmann and Theresa Agresta break down the Archetype survey system and examine each stage of a culture-related initiative.
A Case Study in Recruitment Branding
September 30, 2022
Stories are the bridge through which we connect to one another. These individual stories are the building blocks of a larger story: the story of the organization. It is important that we tend to these stories.
A Full-Scale Approach to Culture Change
August 22, 2022
Often we tackle the culture change conversation one layer at a time. But what if you need to move the needle across the board?
Perks vs. Purpose: What’s More Important for Retaining Employees?
July 29, 2022
Some areas of workplace culture, such as company policies, supervision, workplace conditions, job security, and even salary, are just like brushing your teeth. If these aspects are not up to par, employees will be dissatisfied; however, improvement of these factors is not what creates a feeling of satisfaction with one’s job.
Purpose-Led Cultures
June 8, 2022
Many companies recognize the need to focus on their purpose, but don’t really understand what it means to be ‘purpose-led.’
Change Management: A Culture Shift Case Study
May 22, 2022
What if something about your culture needs to change? How do you identify the needed change? And where do you begin?
Stuck in a Toxic Workplace Culture?
April 26, 2022
Delve into the shadows of organizational behavior to understand why and how cultures become toxic and strategies to identify and shift unhealthy behavior.
What is Organizational Culture?
April 18, 2022
New to the culture conversation? This week we get back to the basics answering the questions we get the most often– from ‘What is Culture?’ to the impact of leaders, and culture can be used to move strategies forward.
Make Culture Work: From Concept to Tool in 5 Steps
March 29, 2022
‘Culture’ isn’t the first intangible business needed to solve for! In this pre-recorded webinar, we offer a thought-provoking comparison to another ‘intangible’ that is bottom-line driven and foundational to success.
An Organizational Culture Framework
March 23, 2022
To drive meaningful conversations and measurable business results, you need a culture framework that gets below surface. Build a culture with substance and staying power.
Using Culture to Build a Bridge
February 21, 2022
We speak with professional marketing strategist Susan Radzyminski about M&A integration, brand strategy, and bringing teams together through culture strategy.
Why Culture is like Integrative Medicine
February 3, 2022
You see, when most successful clients got it—they got it. They understood who they were, how to communicate both internally and to the market, and they were able to use culture work for so many purposes. Culture was the thread that weaved through the success and ultimate impact of these clients.
3 Ways Culture Work Can Help Your Business Today
December 2, 2021
Culture is the measurable, manageable, and executable shared set of human experiences that you can cultivate within your business, organization, or clients.
From Behavior to Culture-How to Inspire Change
November 23, 2021
The behaviors of a group of people are what create the culture of an organization. It’s not what we say that creates a brand; it’s what we do.
Wells Fargo: The High Cost of Culture Crisis
September 15, 2021
Through the lens of Archetypes we examine how the strengths of a organization’s culture can also become it’s pitfalls.
20 Culture Strategy Quotes Every Consultant Should Know
May 15, 2021
The most successful organizations, small and large, are leveraging culture to create value and drive growth.
Trends Transforming Business: ESG, Purpose and Culture
December 9, 2020
ESG is no longer a trend that can be ignored. If in the past organizations have had a ‘check-the-box’ mentality about social responsibility and organizational culture, the time to get real is here.
20 Company Culture Quotes Every Leader Should Read
June 13, 2020
To help describe the importance of culture in engaging teams and clients, we’re turning to those who’ve said it best.
A Cautionary Tale on Leadership and Culture
February 26, 2020
But the two leaders had very different strategies when it came to team development and being the face of the firm. The founder spoke strongly and with conviction; the team relied on him for structure and stability. The right hand’s supporting Everyperson and Innocent Archetypes tended to be more democratic and accommodating.
