Your Guide to Conducting a Baseline Culture Audit
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.
Category: Blog | Organizational Strategy
Strategy Stuck? It May Be Time to Shift Your Culture
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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.
