What Matters

I've been reflecting on what matters, lessons learned, practices to experiment with and ideas worth exploring.

Shift your culture

My mission is to make culture simple and actionable for leaders.

I work with executives, CEOs and leadership teams to shape, shift, strengthen and lead cultures.

Having led culture at the Executive and Board level for more than 15 years, with ASX10 and global teams, I now work as a strategist, speaker, and mentor, building cultures that work.

#culturesthatwork #cultureshift #leadershift #teamshift #culture #shift #leadership

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Belonging invites us to be who we are

Does your culture invite belonging? Or is it a culture of fitting in (even if the norms have shifted)?

#workplaceculture #belonging #fittingin #cultureshift #leadershift #culture #rulesofbelonging #brenebrownwisdom

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Cultures that work have a clear sense of purpose.

In a McKinsey survey with a representative sample of more than 1,000 participants from US companies, 82 percent agreed on the importance of purpose, but only 42 percent reported that their company’s stated “purpose” had much effect.

Having read plenty of purpose statements, that's not surprising!

Many organisations’ purpose statements are so generic that they do little to inspire or challenge business as usual. At some point, they blur and all start to sound the same.

More than a vision and a strategy, a purpose elevates performance. A strong vision and strategy...

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We all contribute to culture

Culture isn’t someone else’s job. We all contribute to culture.

How you show up in your team and your workplace impacts those around you.

We’ve all worked on teams where one person has shifted the culture around them - for better or for worse.

Don’t wait for someone else to tackle your culture. Share some good vibes and contribute positive energy to your team culture.

#workplace #work #culture #contribution #cultureshift

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Culture is your day job

When you lead people, Culture is your day job. It’s not something special and different that you do once a year before a survey. Culture is not extra work on top of how you do things. Culture is not somebody else’s job. Culture is how you get things done every day.

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The only change is behaviour change

According to McKinsey, digital transformations require cultural and behavioural changes such as calculated risk taking, increased collaboration and customer centricity.

Of course, we know, that Cultural change is behaviour change.

In fact, all change is behaviour change. 

#cultureproof #cultureshift #culture #change #behaviour #behaviourchange

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For the love of subcultures

Your Culture is not a monoculture. Never was, never will be.

Don’t fight it. Embrace and nurture your subcultures.

Like a beautiful garden full of different plants, a healthy Culture is made of lots of subcultures coming together, sharing common ground.

Love your subcultures - they are what connects your Culture and people on the ground. 

#culture #subculture #connection #leadership #cultureshift #leadershift

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Culture. Still eating strategy for breakfast.

If you visit the Drucker Institute website, one whole page is dedicated to things Peter Drucker never said. Easily the most misattributed is “Culture eats Strategy for breakfast”.

Culture. Still eating Strategy for breakfast.

No matter who said it first.

#funfact #psa #culture #strategy #cultureeatsstrategyforbreakfast

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Homogeneous culture is a myth. It's not a yoghurt.

Homogeneous culture is a myth. Cultures are full of myths and legends, heroes and villains. Sub-cultures are not the villain.

Healthy cultures embrace vibrant subcultures.

Like someone is entirely comfortable with themselves doesn’t feel threatened by those around them who are different.

So, for the love of subcultures, don’t weaponise difference.

Celebrate it.

#culture #subculture #homogenous #difference #mythbusters #myths #villains

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Don’t underestimate Culture. Your Strategy probably already has.

 Your Culture impacts your Strategy at every point:
- ideation, development and analysis;
- discussion, agreement and alignment;
- translation into actionable plans;
- communication and commitment;
- execution and operationalising;
- monitoring and reporting on progress;
- adjusting course; and
- celebrating success.

Don’t underestimate Culture. Your Strategy probably already has.
#culture #strategy #cultureeatsstrategyforbreakfast #cultureshift

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