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Assess your current work culture

Assess your current work culture

- You may have heard the phrase you may have said it yourself, "Culture eats strategy for breakfast." The quote reminds us that while strategy is important, the tried and true path to business success and industry breakthroughs comes from building a healthy workplace culture. There are two primary challenges to building a healthy workplace culture. Number one, candidly describing the current culture you have without defensiveness. And two, transforming moments of othering into moments of belonging. Othering is the persistent interpersonal behaviors and structural inequities harming people from underrepresented groups. Let's focus on the first core challenge. Describing your work culture. Over the decades, academics have devised a number of ways to map workplace culture. One of the tools I like using with clients is the cultural web developed by Gerry Johnson and Kevan Scholes in 1992. This model amplifies the ingredients that shape and influence your organization's culture. Let's…

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