YOU GET THE CULTURE THAT YOU CHOOSE
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April Fools' Day is all about fun and pranks, but are they suitable for the workplace?

Listen and be inspired by what organisations with vibrant cultures do and you can too!

Toxic culture is every organisation’s biggest risk. Toxic cultures harm humans, results and reputations. But they are preventable.

Anomie is ‘a lack of rules’ and it's the silent killer of great work. It's what happens when nobody knows which standards matter anymore.

Lose the jargon and communicate with directness because when your team know where they stand they feel safer.

When leaders make decisions based on facts they build trust and reinforce the culture they want to see.

It takes more than technical skills to build a team and create a culture.

When you have mastered a clear message you have a skill that you will use every day.

By understanding and nurturing subcultures, organisations can drive culture change and improve overall employee engagement

To be successful, AI implementation must be part of a broader evolution of the existing culture, with good practice principles agreed in advance.

We don’t all work the same so why do we persist with culture killing monolithic office spaces?

Communication permeates every aspect of our working lives. From explaining strategies, crafting compelling presentations and negotiating deals to resolving conflicts and building trust-based relationships. Effective communication shapes outcomes at every turn.

We all have bad days but your mood is contagious and spreading negativity is a culture killer.

One of the best skills we can learn, therefore, is the ability to say ‘no’ and sometimes, ‘no’ is a complete sentence. That’s not to say that we deliver the message rudely or with attitude, indeed the opposite is true.

When employees are given the opportunity to define their own working conditions — how they connect, behave, work together and be creative — they gain not only a sense of pride in what they’ve built, but also a determination to uphold it.

The stories in your culture will determine whether you sail or sink.

In almost all cases of reports into toxic cultures, the first response from senior leaders has either been to deny the existence of toxic culture or else to pretend that what’s obvious to everyone else, isn’t obvious to them.