Archive for Corporate Cultures
Corporate Cultures – Leader Initiated, Documented Processes Controlled Environment
The Leader Initiated, Documented Processes Controlled Environment is one of two anchor points on the Culture-based Work Performance Model. Subsequently, organizations aligned with this culture set represent the highest level of work consistency and efficiency while incurring the greatest degree of risk in job satisfaction and creativity. The following characteristics, benefits, risks, and risk mitigators [...]
Read moreCorporate Cultures – Individual Initiated, Knowledge and Skills Controlled Environment
The Individual Initiated, Knowledge and Skills Controlled Environment is one of two anchor points on the Culture-based Work Performance Model. Subsequently, organizations aligned with this culture set represent the highest level of engagement and creativity while incurring the greatest degree of risk in work consistency and efficiency. The following characteristics, benefits, risks, and risk mitigators [...]
Read moreCorporate Cultures – Culture-based Work Performance Model
In, Culture’s Impact on How Work Gets Done, we described the profound influence an organization’s collective values have on the controls (individual knowledge and skills, standards and expectations, processes and procedures) and triggers (individual contributors, first line managers and supervisors, executives and senior managers) that determine what work is undertaken and the manner in which [...]
Read moreCorporate Cultures – Culture’s Impact on How Work Gets Done
An organization’s culture, its collectively shared values system, profoundly impacts what work is performed, when work is performed, and how work is performed. And the culture driver has as much if not more influence on the results achieved as does the organization’s land, labor, capital, technology, and intellectual property resources. Work Performance Model Fundamentally, all [...]
Read more“Trust Me, I’m a Leader”: Why Building a Culture of Trust Will Boost Employee Performance – and Maybe Even Save Your Company
Do your employees trust you? The brutal truth is probably not. It may not be fair, and you may not want to hear it, but chances are that previous leaders have poisoned the ground on which you’re trying to grow a successful business. Make no mistake: Unless you and all the leaders in your organization [...]
Read more