Improve Culture
The culture of an organization or business can help or hinder employee retention, sales, profits, and public perception of your brand. Fostering good culture requires tools, skills, insights and ongoing commitment.
Improve Culture
The culture of an organization or business can help or hinder employee retention, sales, profits, and public perception of your brand. Fostering good culture requires tools, skills, insights and ongoing commitment.
STEP #1 - Identify
Identify the small but persistent irritants that may be eroding your culture
STEP #2 - Tools
Learn the tools that can help you foster better team interactions
STEP #3 - Build
Build your teams based on positive standards that establish vibrant culture
Positive Culture. Powerful Results.
Is your company slowly losing enthusiasm, confidence, employee respect and results?
Are you even aware?
It is a silent killer of any business. It might start out as gossiping…then maybe things get a little defensive…the cliques start to grow…the territorialism of what is mine is mine…the resistance to any change…the cynicism…people hiding their mistakes…feedback avoidance…passive aggressive communication…or worse, no communication at all, withholding information or a false consensus.
Human insecurity is the basis for these bad habits and can wreak havoc on an individual and team, which can affect your business.
Workplace is a BIG part of our daily life but these little things can turn an organization sour, such as:
- sarcastic comment by a co-worker, we may feel less valued
- statements such as those are MY duties or MY client, so that person may struggle to give out any information that might assist others
- speaking up at a meeting may not happen as much due to an employee being labeled as ‘fired up’ or ‘cantankerous
- manager displays favorites; gets more animated when your co-worker speaks up and criticizes when you voice your opinion
All of these actions that your team may not even be aware of are slowly rotting and rusting away the engine of your organization’s culture. A steady bleed of efficiency, communication, transparency, engagement, creativity, and objective decision-making.
Plop. Plop. Plop.
Like a dripping faucet, morale declines gradually.
Don’t let this happen to you!
And, of course, all of this trickles down to your bottom line, even if that trickle is so slow that it bleeds under the bandages you have been using to cover up over time.
For instance, when sarcastic comments are made over and over, an employee may not feel respected and may not offer up their opinions or ideas that could very well have been the best laid out plan.
When people don’t share information or ask for the help they need or speak up about problems in meetings; decision making suffers and the bottom line takes a hit.
When people feel they’re constantly being judged or second-guessed or marginalized, dedication suffers and the bottom line takes a hit.
When people fear speaking up with an idea or taking a risk or challenging a bad solution, innovation suffers and the bottom line takes a hit.
These small, subtle jabs and punches can have a real impact on your business.
f it is already happening, you CAN reverse it! There IS something you can do about it. We can encourage trust. We can take the steps to significantly increase the level of trust in your business.
Trust is the foundation for building cohesive, high-functioning teams – no matter how large or small.
There are multiple methods to doing this but one that has been effective over and over is using specific tools to build that trust on a team. Those tools use profiles of a team members’ behavioral preference and personality styles. Knowing these, helps break down barriers and allowing people to better understand and empathize with one another.
Let me show you how you can release insecurity; let go and squash the doubt, building trust within your company and bringing your business to LIFE!
You will see more engagement, less friction, more results and much happier employees!
Training Process to Improve Culture
Improving your company culture takes time and a lot of work, but the rewards definitely outweigh the challenges you may be having right now.
Using The Five Behaviors model and tool, Release the Beast can transform your company. A key factor is all leadership must be on board for such a transformation!
The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team™ is based on the model developed by Patrick Lencioni in his book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. Lencioni’s model outlines the five behaviors that are essential to a healthy, well-functioning team: building trust, mastering conflict, achieving commitment, embracing accountability, and focusing on results.
These five behaviors are not distinct issues that can be viewed in isolation; rather they build upon one another as follows:
- Members of a truly cohesive team must trust one another in order to engage in unfiltered conflict.
- They must engage in conflict so that they can commit to decisions and plans of action.
- Once team members are committed, they hold one another accountable for delivering against those plans.
- After holding one another accountable, they focus on achievement of collective results.
Because of this interrelationship, Lencioni’s model posits that the five behaviors will be statistically correlated with one another.
Benefits to your Company
- Aligned goals – everyone is on the same page
- Effective communication – everyone understands each other
- Productive conflict – everyone is open, honest and willing to speak up
- Trust between co-workers and teams
- Everyone works together on priorities
- Productivity increases
- Clear roles – everyone knows what they need to do
- Innovative ideas which can grow your business
