Does team culture really matter?
Ever work somewhere where you loved your team culture but disliked the overall culture of the organization or vice versa? 🙋🏾♀️ You’re not alone. When team culture and company culture are aligned it can be a beautiful synergy of a unified and cohesive culture. Sounds ideal. 🤝 But, if team and company culture are wildly different it…
Read MoreAre your leaders sabotaging your company culture?
Sometimes I struggle writing about culture because a lot of aspects of culture feel outside HR’s control. Like the fact we’re usually one of the later hires on an executive team or that most HR leaders are hired after there are already cultural issues. HR leaders end up walking into situations that are more complicated…
Read MoreYour unspoken values are hurting your culture.
Once your company values are set and rolled out, employees should all know how to act right??? Maybe not. Every organization has unspoken values. Unspoken values are the values that don’t get written down. They are the behaviors that are learned through observations and experiences. “This is the way we do things here.” Chances are…
Read MoreDo company values actually matter?
Did you know: there are about 50 different definitions of corporate culture in academic literature? 🤯 Most of the definitions out there have something in common… Values. Values are often seen as the foundation of culture and the way to inform and guide employee behavior. Hot take: values can be a bunch of corporate jargon…
Read MoreThe moments that matter most…
Thinking back to my school days I was most excited about the first day and the last day of school. Truthfully, everything in the middle has kind of become mush in my head. The same could be said about an employee’s experience. While, there can be quite a few key moments in an employee’s experience,…
Read MoreCompany culture is complicated.
There was a time where almost every organization was obsessing over their culture. Culture became this coveted prized possession. Companies tried to outdo each other with bold proclamations on websites, bright words splashed across office walls, unlimited PTO, ping pong tables, free lunches, nap pods and onsite masseuses anything to be described as having a…
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