Category: Engagement
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Designing meeting culture
💬 Your meeting culture is a reflection of your overall company culture—is it people-driven, power-driven, idea-driven, or results-driven? Understanding your meeting culture is essential for designing meetings that people love to attend. Sadly, we don’t usually pay attention to our meeting culture, and most of us have never calculated the true cost of our business…
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Better Decisions Faster: Tips for Your Organization
Raise your hand if you’ve ever felt like your organization’s decision-making process could use a little work. 🖐️ Whether you’re struggling with delays, unclear decisions, or something else entirely, there are steps you can take to improve the process. Here are three strategies to help you make smarter, more efficient decisions. 💨🏁 📜🚦1 – Clarify…
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Are OKRs Killing Your Motivation and Performance? The Neuroscience of Goal-Setting.
🧠 I’ve been delving deep into the world of neuroscience lately, exploring its impact on organizational change and leadership. One aspect that’s caught my attention is the importance of setting attainable goals. It got me thinking: Are OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) really the best approach? 🤔 OKRs often push us to set ambitious targets,…
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The Role of Rituals in Building Workplace Culture
A few weeks back, my husband and I had a conversation about what defines a ritual, the rituals we commonly encounter in the workplace, and how it differs from your average meeting or ceremony. This conversation got me curious, so I dove back into my social anthropology books from my time at university and revisited…
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Open Offices: A Communication Killer?
Did you know communication drops by 70% in open office workplaces compared to private settings? 📉 Surprising, right? I’ll share the link to the research in the comments. Turns out, proximity triggers a human response to withdraw socially (despite our need for social interaction), favoring privacy instead. As an alternative, people resort to email and…
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Beyond the balance sheet: the real ROI of investing in culture
In the corporate world, where numbers often take precedence over everything else, the conversation about culture often doesn’t take center stage. For founders, CEOs, CFOs, and other numbers-driven leaders, investing in culture might not immediately resonate with them. It rarely provides the immediate, tangible returns on investment they typically seek. And that is often times…