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Category: People and Culture

  • HR Beyond Admin: Driving Profit Through Employee Engagement

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    The outdated view of HR as merely an administrative function persists, and the important issues HR works on are not given the space they need to create real business value. Or are they? 🤔 Yesterday, I came across a study by Brilliant Future AB based on data from employee surveys in their database and financial…

  • Designing meeting culture

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    💬 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…

  • Better Decisions Faster: Tips for Your Organization

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    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…

  • Open Offices: A Communication Killer?

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    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…

  • Crafting Core Values: Building Our Cultural Foundation

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    An executive team I collaborated with had a clear vision of their mission and culture, but it was mostly confined to the minds of the CEO, founder, and executives. This sporadic communication led to a lack of consistent reinforcement, causing the team to feel unclear and misaligned with the vision and culture. To address this,…

  • Beyond the balance sheet: the real ROI of investing in culture

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    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…