Category Archive: Culture

Culture Building Resolutions

Toxic culture means working harder to reach average.

Sick culture is an invisible cost that shows up on the bottom line.

Make resolutions that impact the way you treat each other while you work.

Culture reveals itself when…

1. Success stories are shared.
2. A leader walks into a room.

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Lousy Meetings = Pathetic Culture

The higher you rise, the more time you burn in meetings. Don’t waste those hours. Seize them.

Meetings aren’t just about updates or decisions. They’re the seeds of culture.

The way you treat people in the meeting shapes how they treat each other in the hall.

If you value relationships, prove it where it matters most: around the table.

Hybrid Work isn’t Working

The Proximity Principle: People tend to serve people they see, touch, and spend time with.

What you don’t see seems easy. You assume others have it easy. People who aren’t seen often feel undervalued.

Hybrid work makes detachment easy.

Potential expands when you connect to real people doing real work.

How to make hybrid work, work?

Aligned or Misaligned: Team Culture Decides 

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Culture is what you do, not what you say.

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7 Signs Your Culture is Toxic

Talent is defeated by toxic culture.

Healthy culture is never an accident. Toxic cultures are the result of ignorance, distraction and neglect.

Ignorance of the importance of team dynamics.

Distraction by focusing on problems and short-term metrics.

Neglect because of failure to address destructive behaviors, poor communication, or misalignment.

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Turnaround Toxic Leaders

Toxic leaders corrode teams.

Self-serving leaders drain momentum. Ignoring the problem feels easier in the moment. But downward pull is destructive. The solution starts with turnaround conversations.

Toxic leaders dominate environments.

How to have turnaround conversations with toxic leaders…