Culture is your day job.

Are you forgetting an essential part of your day job?

Are you leading your culture?

Culture isn’t something extra to tick off once a year when the engagement survey rolls around. It’s not a side task or someone else’s job. Culture is the cumulative effect of your leadership—every decision, interaction, and action you take.

Culture is:

• How and why you bring people together (or choose not to).
• The rituals you share as a team—how you greet, celebrate, and farewell each other.
• What you do and how you do it—your actions, even when you think no one’s watching (spoiler: someone always is).
• The symbols and signs people notice—the unwritten rules of how things really work.
• The stories you share (or don’t)—what gets told, remembered, and passed on.

How are you thinking about culture? Is it a “bolt-on” extra, or is it woven into how you lead every single day?

Great cultures don’t happen by accident. They’re shaped intentionally—by leaders who see culture as their day job.

So, what will you do today to lead your culture?