Organizational Culture Management
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Culture Management Quickstart
Create a Cathartic Release to Renew and Revive Your Culture
When you have low morale, disgruntled employees or rampant distrust, the temptation can be to go straight to hitting the reset button on your culture. Shiny new initiatives. Shiny new committees. Shiny new intentions. Read more >
What Does Team Mean?
Just recently I had someone share the idea of being team as compared to being part of a team. We didn’t have time to talk further, and yet when they said it, I was taken Read more >
Better Communication: Just Three
When in doubt of how many, lean on three. Why? Simple--three is doable, memorable and meaningful. More than three and overwhelm and numbing follow. Three is thoughtful. You have to evaluate and select what’s most Read more >
Brilliant Inspiring Guiding Principles
On January 3, 2008 Room & Board, which sells hand crafted American-made furniture created their Guiding Principles - principles they incorporate daily in their operations. These principles are not only inspiring, they are also down-to-earth Read more >
Culture Forcefields
Why Nice Teams Finish Last
My brother-in-law recently got a job in retail sales of satellite TV. Here’s a psychological trick he was taught – ask the nice young couple who has stepped into the big box store to follow Read more >
Critical to Your Team’s Culture: Equal Air Time
In researching what makes successful teams, Google’s “Project Aristotle” found psychological safety was key. A group norm that supports psychological safety is “equality in distribution of conversational turn-taking.” Meaning, everyone has more or less equal Read more >
The Ice Bucket Challenge For Your Organization
Last week I heard of a company that did something truly brilliant. One of their team members was headed in for open-heart surgery. The company bought everyone Fitbits and for every 1 million steps in Read more >
What do you mean by happy?
Happy. Happy!! Happy? I was asked here recently, "Kris, what do you mean by happy when you talk about happy employees?" Which was followed by - "Our philosophy is that at the end of the day Read more >
Culture Belonging
Too Quiet or Too Noisy Office Solutions: How to Get (Most) Everyone to Goldilocks
Our physical workspace environment impacts our workplace experience. It also impacts our productivity – both in our ability to focus and in our ability to collaborate. Many organizations regret the loss of spaces that Read more >
Culture Hack: Increase Your Team’s Morale in 90 Seconds
Morale informs your team’s confidence, enthusiasm and discipline. Morale is the energetic context within which they get the work done. Let’s say you look around your office and it’s feeling a bit sluggish, meh or Read more >
But What About the Numbers? Happy Employees = Happy Bottomline
Happy Employees=Happy Bottomline Here are just a few of the numbers from the research to chew on: 1) The productivity loss of 100 employees who are unhappy is $7,500 per week or $390,000 per year. Read more >
But Kris, You can’t make everyone happy.
There seems to be THE great excuse. When I ask HR folks if they feel the employees at their company are happy, I often don't get a direct answer. And the answer I get is Read more >
Administer Culture
Universal Mind: Palpable Pride & Their NO list
We are excited to announce that Universal Mind is a Choose People Certified Company! Today we want to highlight just a couple aspects that make Universal Mind’s culture extraordinary. First, the employees of Universal Mind Read more >
SpatialKey: What it takes to be the best
We are excited to announce that SpatialKey is not only a Choose People Certified Company – but the highest scoring organization we’ve had to date! SpatialKey is a computer software company known for transforming data Read more >
Check Out My TED Talk
"What is the glue that holds a good team together -- or the poison that can kill the golden goose? In this insightful, funny talk, workplace culture expert Kris Boesch gives us a first-person look Read more >
Create a Rejuvenation Room
Take an empty office or a room crammed with useless storage stuff and transform it into a “Zen Den.” This is a room dedicated to quiet and rejuvenation – it’s a place within the office Read more >
Culture Change
Address Work Apathy: Create Goosebumps
Work apathy, resignation and overall numbness are rampant. This is why so many people are “weekend warriors” or simply “sucking it up” to survive until their next vacation. It’s heartbreaking. And preventable. Once again Read more >
Choose Inspiration Over Motivation
Motivation is lighting a fire under you, while inspiration is lighting a fire within you. Consider these insights from three great thought leaders on motivation and inspiration: “Inspiration is a driving force, while motivation is Read more >
Meaningful Wellness Rewards
If an employee quits smoking, starts exercising, or loses 10 lbs. due to your wellness program how can you reward them? No tchotchkes. No doodads, swag from the latest conference, low dollar gift cards or Read more >
Feel Good Philanthropy & Employee Pride: 7 Options
We know that helping others makes us feel good. And we know when a company makes an effort to improve the community or help a cause, employees pride and joy in belonging to the organization Read more >
Integrating Cultures
How to Launch a Successful Culture Council
What is a Culture Council A Culture Council is an empowered group of committed team members from across the organization that advises leadership with curated recommendations to improve workplace culture. Read more >
7 Reasons to Run from Employee Recognition Programs – Fast!!
Why I highly recommend NOT doing formal employee recognition programs: 1) It can easily be put on the back burner and then become a source of resentment and loss of trust in management 2) If you Read more >
One Manager’s Mishaps – What Not to Do
My friend's husband is an avid runner. He also has serious work ethic - definitely the kind of person you want on your team. Lastly, he's a brand new dad. He started a new job Read more >
How do you create a Lovemark?
Ed Goodman, Chief Experience Officer of Spiral Experiences shared with me today the term "Lovemark" - where customers say "I love that company/that product/that service." Part of creating a true blue Lovemark - not just a "brand" Read more >
Culture Identity
How to Handle Difficult Customers and Support a Positive Company Culture
Few things will undermine your positive company culture efforts - and bring a team member’s morale down faster - than not knowing how to handle a difficult customer. Empower your Read more >
9 Ways to Spark Your Culture Today
While it does take intentionality, it doesn’t take much to have one of your team workers know you care – to have them have the experience of being known, matter and included… “If Read more >
Six Steps to *KonMari Your Workplace Culture
An extraordinary culture is a culture that brings joy. A culture that brings joy has smart, simple, clean clarity. Clarity of purpose. Clarity of direction. Clarity of agreements. Clarity of expectations. Clarity of strategy, Read more >
Culture – Music to Your Ears? How to Reframe the Refrain
Culture consists of collective, coordinated choices - creating maddening mayhem or productive, pride-filled joy. Your culture’s music rises from the efforts composed by individual influencers of your concerted team. When you close your eyes, do Read more >
Culture Assessment
Learn from the Best: 6 Keys to an Extraordinary Culture
In just 3 years, they went from being in the top 20% of companies in the United States for company culture to the top 5%. And their dedication hasn’t waned. Last week I had the Read more >
The Amazing Story of the Employees at NUMMI
This blog post is short. The podcast I highly recommend you take the time to listen to is 1 hour. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/403/nummi This is the fascinating story as told by This American Life of NUMMI - the Read more >
What does the Office Refrigerator say about your Employee Culture?
Eeewwww. Grooosss. (Never mind the fuzzy green moldy stuff, how about seepage of who knows what dripping between the racks.) Yeah, I've seen those office fridges. Dare I say, way back in the day when Read more >
