What Matters

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

Symbols

Conducting two Culture assessments at the moment. In our question set we ask about symbols. Usually this is one of the sections we have to provide an explanation and a couple of examples to get people started. Once started though, people can name multiple examples. It’s always worth taking our time on this because the examples people share are gold - often unearthing aspects of culture that don’t come up elsewhere.

Whether it’s who gets the corner office or car park, the exclusive milk club with signs all over the lunch room fridge or previous logos and branding still...

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How could your stories shift culture

Culture has been passed on through storytelling for thousands of years.

Whether morals through children’s fairy tales or life lessons shared in the biography of a hero, we hand down our ways of living through stories.

Our brains are wired for story. Stories help us make sense of the world.
The workplace is no different.

Stories are an incredibly powerful tool to shape, shift and strengthen your culture.

Who are the heroes and villains in your workplace stories? Who are the storytellers?

Do your stories influence your team’s behaviours? How could your stories connect and engage your...

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Cultures that work enable and accelerate change.

I'm in the business of cultures that work.

You know a culture is good when it works - that is, a culture enables positive, productive work.

You know a culture is working when:

  • People feel they belong and can bring their best.
  • The collective effort is stronger than the sum of the parts. A good culture is where people feel safe and hopeful for the future.
  • People are clear on, and feel connected to, the organisation’s purpose, where individuals and teams can learn, fail, grow, and develop mastery.
  • People have genuine choice and work autonomously toward shared goals. 

For a culture...

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Your culture can be your greatest asset or greatest liability.

We know culture is important. Sixty-seven per cent of respondents in PwC’s 2021 Global Culture Survey considered culture more critical for success than strategy or operating model, and 81% attributed culture as a point of competitive advantage.

We know culture can be changed on purpose. PwC’s survey found that a staggering 80% of team members are disappointed with their organisation’s culture, 76% of leaders believe culture is changeable, and 65% of leaders believe they need to change their current culture. Yet only 15% of organisations report culture...

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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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