What Role Does Your Culture Play In Your Business?

What Role Does Your Culture Play In Your Business?

Have you ever stopped to consider this question: What role does your organisation’s culture play in your business? You might be surprised at some of the answers you generate from considering this question, and be inspired by the understanding that emerges from your answers.

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Would Your Business Get a 4A Culture Rating?

Would Your Business Get a 4A Culture Rating?

Just as companies and countries have their creditworthiness evaluated by agencies like Standard and Poors, and Moody’s, organisations can evaluate their ‘cultureworthiness’ against my 4A rating scale.

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The Haka and High Performance

The Haka and High Performance

As a regular keynote speaker I am always paying attention to which of the points I make during a presentation are having the biggest impact on the audience. My most popular keynote is on the New Zealand Maori Haka and the lessons it contains for creating high performance company cultures.

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The Business Case for Company Culture - Vol. 1

The Business Case for Company Culture - Vol. 1

Discover the six motives to work on your company culture. The motivations can be divided into two group; Internal and External. The first group comprises three reasons to work on culture that is all to do with an internal aspect of culture. In other words how culture is impacting events and understanding within the business.

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Understanding Company Culture -  Vol. 2

Understanding Company Culture - Vol. 2

Because an organisation’s culture forms organically (and often does so long before any official or formal work is conducted on defining the company culture) there is usually more depth and complexity within a company culture than most organisations understand or give the culture credit for.

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Eating Soup With Forks - Vol. 3

Eating Soup With Forks - Vol. 3

Sometimes we humans go about a task with tools and methods that are clearly outdated or misaligned with our actual objectives. Rather like eating a bowl of soup with a fork. Do you know what else is a fork? Using employee engagement surveys to measure and learn about company culture.

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Why Engagement Is Different To Culture - Vol. 4

Why Engagement Is Different To Culture - Vol. 4

Many organisations confuse staff engagement with culture. It’s an easy oversight to make given they are so closely interconnected. Without a clear understanding of the distinctions between engagement and culture, it's easy to assume that they're one and the same. So what are the distinguishing factors?

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12 Questions Every Organisation Should Ask Itself About Its Culture - Vol. 5

12 Questions Every Organisation Should Ask Itself About Its Culture - Vol. 5

After working with organisations for over thirty years to enhance the performance of their workplace cultures, a simple and telling trend has emerged. It has become very obvious that the more awareness an organisation possesses of the nature and function of company culture, the more likely it will be able to optimise its culture.

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End Of Year Company Culture Review - Vol. 6

End Of Year Company Culture Review - Vol. 6

As we draw to the end of the calendar year, now is a useful time to stop and reflect on whether your company culture has helped or hindered your business performance, customer experience and employee fulfilment over the past twelve months. In our Culture Planning Program, we highlight the core symptom of an under-performing culture and how to address them.

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Five Lores For Creating A High Performance Company Culture - Vol. 7

Five Lores For Creating A High Performance Company Culture - Vol. 7

For the past 60,000 years human beings have created cultures as their preferred way of being in company together. No other social option has ever replaced culture. In the history of our species, this is no small thing. Unlike religions or political ideologies or fashions, culture stuck as our preferred way of being ‘us’.

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Will Robots Take Over Your Job? - Vol. 8

Will Robots Take Over Your Job? - Vol. 8

This is the question two businessmen were discussing while sitting in an airport lounge. I was sitting next to them and couldn’t help being intrigued by their thoughts. I won’t bore you with their thinking here as they largely focused their conversation on which of the two of them was most at risk in their role being taken over by artificial intelligence or robots.

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What Is Mankind's Greatest Invention? - Vol. 9

What Is Mankind's Greatest Invention? - Vol. 9

If you are ever in need of a great conversation started at a dinner party... Then just ask the question posed in the heading of this newsletter and sit back and listen with fascination to the vast range of responses you receive back.

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