Shocking Workplace Culture Stats Suggest There’s Lots of Work To Be Done
Here are a few shocking workplace statistics reported in a recent Forbes article A CareerBuilder.com survey found that 58% of managers received absolutely no management training (which is perhaps why some of the stats below make sense). A Harvard Business Review...
Actions Speak Louder Than Words: How One Company Transformed Its Culture Through a Values Blitz
Great companies and inspiring leaders understand that actions speak louder than words and that talk is cheap! If you want your values to mean something, you absolutely have to stand behind them and bring them to life in meaningful ways. The following video is an...
Connect Employees With “Ask Me?” Theme Days
Tired of employees working in silos? One of the biggest complains I hear from my clients revolves around those dreaded silos – people working in isolation without connecting across teams or sharing information with each other. Working in silos creates...
Feedback Fridays: A Fun and Effective Way to Engage Employees
A simple way to take everyone’s pulse at work Whenever I talk about communication in the workplace, I always stress that there needs to be a dialogue, not just a one-way dumping of information AT employees. You need to talk with employees, not at employees. A...
Creating Healthier Workplace Cultures: Is Your Workplace Culture Killing Your Employees?
If people are dying for a pay check…maybe you need to work on your culture? There are so many reasons to focus on building a rocking workplace culture, but I can’t think of a more important reason than this: People are dying in record numbers because of...
To Zip or Not To Zip?
Is radical candor at work always a good thing? When to zip and when not to zip! t happened to me. One of the most dreaded moments a public speaker can face – the realization that I’d been speaking for the last hour or so with my zipper down. And,...
Here’s Why You Need to Hire for Culture Growth, Not Just Culture Fit
Hiring for culture fit can sometimes backfire! As I write about in the my book, Hire, Inspire and Fuel Their Fire: How to Recruit, Onboard, and Train New Employees to Live Your Culture Out Loud, although great companies hire relentlessly with their culture in mind,...
A Great Workplace Culture Insight Question: What are the Unwritten Rules in Your Workplace?
Is it time to unearth YOUR unwritten rules at work? If you want to assess the current state of your culture, or understand what employees really think about your culture, then you need to do more than just surveying your employees once a year. You need to have real...


