Our Workshops: Results Equation and Accountability
We offer two primary workshops to clients. Workshops are smaller engagements (one to 1.5 days) that focus on key topics of culture, prioritization, and change management — but do so in a compact way that both creates immediate action and gets you some exposure to how we work in general. If you’d be interested in […]
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The State Of Culture Report: Q1 2023
From January to March 2023, we surveyed professionals of all levels (n=150) across multiple industries about their cultures, their confidence in those cultures, and general organizational success. The questions about culture were open-ended, but we coded responses and analyzed them quantitatively. The results paint a hopeful, if conflicting, picture.
Flexibility, adaptability, and the power of good teams
This originally appeared on Jessica Kriegel’s LinkedIn newsletter. Subscribe to that, if you’d like! I had the pleasure of working with a client this week in Nashville with some of my tremendous colleagues — Ron Paul, Ph.D., Joe Kozub, and John Henry Scott III: First, I’d just like to mention the power of great teams. I’ve been on […]
How to best define work “culture”
This post originally appeared as part of Jessica Kriegel’s LinkedIn newsletter. Feel free to subscribe to that, if you’d like! Every week, one or more of my colleagues at CULTURE PARTNERS is at a company somewhere, engaging with senior leaders on how to operationalize culture. What does that mean? Well, executives understand that the culture piece is important — […]
The COVID Shift: “Double down on flexibility and adaptability”
This article originally appeared on Jessica Kriegel’s LinkedIn. Most Americans began truly reckoning with COVID around mid-March 2020; some are still grappling with COVID and all its various effects. There have been a many theories tossed around about COVID’s ultimate impact on work. It has been 39 months since counties and cities started being shut […]
What if change management processes DON’T need to be hard?
This post originally appeared on LinkedIn as a Jessica Kriegel newsletter edition. To subscribe to her newsletter, go here. Working on finishing up significant research on #culture based on work we did with 240+ organizations. We found that the best type of culture for fiscal returns are “adaptable” cultures, defined by resilience and effective change processes. (But […]
From CNN: “Loud Quitting” and the need for adaptability and flexibility
Jessica Kriegel, our Chief Scientist of Workplace Culture, appeared on CNN’s Early Start this morning to discuss some recent Gallup studies about general disengagement in the workplace: Near the end of the three-minute clip, Kriegel references some forthcoming research of ours about adaptability and points to the need for both adaptability and flexibility in building […]
That time we got an entire room to sing “The Greatest Love Of All”
At a client engagement in May 2023, two of our consultants opened a session by getting members of a Mississippi-based organization to sing Whitney Houston’s “The Greatest Love of All” as a tie to their desired end-state culture, purpose, and mission. It’s fun to watch:
May 2023 Business Media Hits
A smattering of thought leadership, takes, and hits. OdwyerPR: On The Move: New CMO, 5/23 Yahoo Finance: Culture Partners Appoints Yereslove CMO Markets Insider: Culture Partners Appoints Yereslove CMO SAP Insights: Engagement Strategies to Head Off ‘Quiet Quitting’, 5/19 AARP The Arrow: Why Workplace Ageism Is Worse for Gen Xers, 5/18 Biz Journal: Meeting marathons […]
How to begin building accountability in a team
This is undoubtedly a complicated topic, and thousands of teams around the world struggle with accountability and autonomy. As HBR has noted, the lack of accountability is rarely intentional, meaning managers and executives do have the best intentions. (We’ve seen that in our client work as well.) Rather, the lack of accountability is the result […]
Is there a type of layoff that’s more humane?
This post originally appeared on Jessica Kriegel’s LinkedIn. To subscribe to her every-Friday newsletter, also on LinkedIn, go right here. I had the privilege of being mentioned in a BBC WorkLife article about humane layoffs a few weeks ago. You might see the words “humane layoffs” and think “jumbo shrimp.” Is a humane layoff even possible? (It is, but […]