Leading Remote and Hybrid Teams: What Managers Need to Know leadership Feb 10, 2023

Managing remote and hybrid teams doesn't have to be a challenge! If you equip yourself with the right strategies, it can lead to great team culture, company culture and strong relationships among colleagues.

This article is designed to help you better understand the differences between remote...

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The Holy Grail: Team Leadership leadership Jan 13, 2023

If you are like most organizations (those companies not actively engaged in ongoing culture shaping processes), the company culture you have now is a relatively fixed quantity. It’s stable, consistent. Sir Isaac Newton – who coined the elegant Three Laws of Motion in the 1680s –...

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Culture Initiatives: Finding Someone to Drive workplace culture Dec 19, 2022

If you want to create and protect a great culture within your work setting – a lot is required. In fact, our entire company, BetterCulture, is dedicated to helping our clients do exactly that.

If you want the best shot at building and maintaining a great culture, we believe that you need to...

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The #1 Poison to Company Culture workplace culture Nov 30, 2022

“People are our most valuable resource”, so says dang near every CEO. And though it may be trite, it is also true. Here is something else that is not as often said but is also true: one of the most damaging factors to any organization can also be your people.

Thankfully, we are...

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What Makes a Good Supervisor: 22 Characteristics leadership Sep 26, 2022

What would the world of work be like if every employee worked for a world-class manager? Well…that’s a lot to consider…and we can’t say for sure. But we’re like 99.99% sure it would be UH-MAZ-ING!

But to even take the first step in getting to uh-maz-ing, we first...

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The Give and Take of Virtual Work workplace culture Aug 31, 2022

(NOTE: This article is written for organizations that are not already operating in a fully remote or remote-first way. Many of the statements made in this article are less likely to apply if your organization operates entirely remotely or with a remote-first mindset.)

If your organization is...

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Empowering Leaders at Every Level: The 20 Tenets of Culture workplace culture Jul 29, 2022

Ideas with the potential to change an established way of thinking are few and far between. But when they come, they arrive with a bang!

In our decade plus of work at BetterCulture helping clients develop leaders and build stronger workplace cultures, we’ve delivered hundreds of speeches,...

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Employee Pride: The Bedrock of Company Culture workplace culture Jun 27, 2022

As a wise leader once commented, “Being the part-time mail clerk of a great company is worthy of pride; being the CEO of a lousy company is worthy of shame.”

After years conducting our BetterCulture employee engagement surveys and reviewing and presenting results across wide-ranging...

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Harnessing The Awesome Power of Better Company Culture workplace culture Apr 05, 2022

More than ever, business professionals are talking about culture – even when they don’t use that word. When business leaders discuss their need for talent, retention, workforce, staffing – really anything that has to do with people – they are talking about culture.

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What Every Company Should Know About Employee Engagement Surveys engagement survey May 10, 2021

Today, more than ever, organizations understand the value and power of “culture.”  But how should organizations measure their culture?  How can they know where they have room for improvement? And if they focus on those areas, how can they know if they’re making...

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Chief Culture Officer: The 4 Keys to Success workplace culture Apr 19, 2021

Every now and then a new idea comes along that is just flat-out good.  So good, in fact, that it’s silly to argue against it.  We have one of those to share with you.

If you want (we mean really want) to create and protect a top-notch culture in your work setting, you MUST...

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Can Your Company Pass our Culture Code Quiz? workplace culture Feb 08, 2021

Can your company pass our culture code quiz?  Odds are, probably not.  It’s a simple quiz with only two questions, but it’s challenging to pass.  Give it a try: 

Question 1: Does your company have a culture code (a trendy name for a listing of company core values)?...

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