If you have concerns about the performance of a particular team, whether that is your management team or an individual functional team, this is what you should do about it. Step 1: Investigate First, investigate what is going on. Establish what the issues are and what unhelpful behaviour is undermining performance. This is akin to […]
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We are social primates, programmed to follow subtle unwritten rules and social cues. Those rules and social cues are the foundation of group culture. Any group of humans is a community, and every community has a culture. That is as true of informal gatherings as it is of large organisations with complex corporate cultures. The
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Imagine that you are planning a road trip. You know where you are, you know where you want to be, so you consult a map, or plug the coordinates into your GPS. That’s it. Now to your means of transport, your car. You check that it is road-worthy and that your chances of breakdown are
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It could be argued that the roots of our modern understanding of corporate culture lie in a study initiated to assess the impact of shop-floor lighting on worker productivity. The studies were conducted by the Harvard Business School between 1924 and the early 1930s at the Hawthorne plant of the Western Electric Company in Chicago.
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We all know the signs of a poor organisational culture, don’t we? – Don’t assume so. In this article we explore some of the less obvious signs that an organisation may have cultural issues that need to be addressed. We can all list the obvious signs that an organisation’s culture is poor. People are demotivated
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In this article we look at the role that internal relationships play in organisational culture and why it is essential to consider them when managing culture. Relationships are the heart of organisational culture. These are the organisation’s own relationships with each of its members as well all the various relationships across the organisation – between
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One of the issues that is most concerning leadership teams at the moment is how they can maintain their organisational culture with a hybrid working model. How do you build cohesion when your people are working from home 2 or 3 days a week and when some colleagues may only rarely meet each other face-to-face?
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