From the course: Creating a High Performance Culture
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Designing your team for high performance
From the course: Creating a High Performance Culture
Designing your team for high performance
- If culture is the sum of our daily actions, then people and teams are the true drivers of culture. The people you choose to be leaders, the individuals you promote, the way you organize teams, and who you decide to hire all send strong messages about your culture. Ensure cultural fit is an evaluation criteria for selecting leaders or employees. Make cultural fit part of your design considerations for organizing a team. At one consulting firm whose culture is very strong, they focus on being a meritocracy. People were valued above all else. Selection to lead teams and become a partner at the firm were based in large part upon people leadership and cultural fit for their behaviors. One candidate, to become a partner, used to beat their teams up. He would overwork them, not show appreciation for their work and in some cases be disrespectful to team members. During the partner evaluation process, 360 evaluations were…
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