A thriving organisational culture fuels innovation, engagement, and performance. Yet when toxicity takes root—resistance, negativity, and high turnover—it undermines every strategic goal. Transforming culture is a profound change-readiness challenge that demands a holistic approach. This article explores the hidden costs of poor culture, explains why shifting entrenched mindsets is so hard, and presents a comprehensive…
In today’s fast-paced world, fostering a culture of continuous learning is crucial for organisational success. This approach ensures that employees constantly improve their skills and knowledge, which drives innovation and adaptability. For businesses of all sizes and industries, continuous learning can increase productivity, employee satisfaction, and a competitive edge. For small businesses, continuous learning helps…
In-person events and collaboration opportunities are invaluable for building trust among team members. Face-to-face interactions foster genuine connections, allowing individuals to understand each other’s personalities, strengths, and working styles. These interactions create a sense of camaraderie and shared purpose, which is essential for a cohesive team. Collaboration opportunities like workshops, team-building activities, and brainstorming sessions…
Failure. It’s not a four-letter word but it’s still a dirty word in many places. From this starting point, we could explore attitudes towards failure and the importance of psychological safety as a key cultural element. But we won’t. Instead, let’s explore why failure happens. In the September 18, 2018 edition of Forbes, Harvard professor…
For most of human existence, change happened slowly. For generations people hunted and foraged, or later farmed the land or kept animals. Not much changed. But that’s far from our experience today. We count change in years, not millennia. But why has this happened? It has happened because of memes. Memes (coined by Richard Dawkins)…
We often think of the culture of an organisation as ‘the way we do things around here’ or ‘the way things are’. Culture seems to convey some sort of reality – the reality of how things are. One possibility among many But just think for a moment about ‘how things are’. Sure, what we see…
