Creating a Workplace Culture Infused With Recognition and Appreciation
Infusing Recognition into Your Culture Ideally, you want to infuse your workplace culture with a spirit of appreciation, celebration, and recognition so that everyone takes responsibility for appreciating and recognizing one another’s success. Peer-to-peer recognition...
What ONE Change Would Have the Biggest Impact on Your Workplace Culture?
I posted this survey question in my Inspiring Workplaces newsletter this week: If you could change just one thing this year about your workplace that you think would make the biggest difference to everyone’s happiness, productivity, and well-being, what...
Assessing Your Workplace Culture: Where is Your Workplace Culture on the Culture Mojo Scale?
Here are some questions to mull over as you ponder how you might define your workplace culture and assess where your culture currently sits on the culture mojo scale. What are your unwritten rules that guide everyone’s behaviors? This is a question that can reveal...
Keeping Motivated During a Big Project: 8 Ways To Stay Motivated Until You Cross the Finish Line
I was the lead project manager on an assignment known as Project Lethal Scorpion. It sounds intriguing, right, maybe even a little dangerous? Actually, it was deadly boring, but to add a little intrigue and fun, and to make it easier for everyone to remember, we...
Compassionate and Kind Leadership Drives Results
I’ve always thought that the sitcom The Office should be mandatory viewing for senior leaders to remind themselves of the importance of character and of how not to lead. After all, as Groucho Marx once said, “We should learn from the mistakes of others. We don’t...
Fifteen Ways to Be More Intentional as a Workplace Culture Leader
Great workplace cultures don’t happen by accident. And great leadership doesn’t happen by accident. Here are fifteen ways to show up as an intentional leader, fifteen ways to be more purposeful as a leader. 1. Let your actions do the talking...
Workplace Culture Leadership: It’s About Being Compassionate and Kind, But Not Necessarily Nice
The following is an excerpt from my book, “Small Moments, Big Outcomes: How Leaders Create Cultures That Fuel Extraordinary Results.” It’s About People, Not “Stuff!” A study published in Harvard Business Review by Emma Seppala and Kim...
Workplace Culture Leadership: The Importance of Holding Employees Accountable
Inspiring Culture Leaders are Accountable and They Hold Their Employees Accountable Several years ago, I had the pleasure of visiting Beryl Health, a 24/7 call center based in Bedford, Texas. Beryl prides itself for embracing a family-first, fun workplace...


