Does Your Culture Stink?
The “smell” of your organization’s culture is a bigger deal than you think!
Every business or organization has a culture. Yours does — like it or not. And there’s a good chance that it stinks.
Here’s the reality… The culture of an organization speaks louder than what the employee handbook does (or doesn’t) say. Culture either impedes or supercharges your “Vision” and “Mission” statements. Culture will blunt your best efforts to move forward or it will boost your efforts beyond the available resources you can currently muster. Culture can be the most beneficial force within your workplace or the most detrimental. Most leaders pay very little attention to culture and lack of attention almost always means the culture stinks.
I often tell clients their culture can motivate their staff to do things they would never ask of them or it can inhibit them from doing what you are already paying them to do…
A textbook definition of culture would be as follows: “Corporate culture refers to the beliefs and behaviors that determine how a company’s employees and management interact and handle … transactions. Often, corporate culture is implied, not expressly defined, and develops organically over time from the cumulative traits of the people the company hires. A company’s culture will be…
