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Redundancy: How to lead and support survivors

12-Nov-2020 07:00:00 / by Caroline Butcher posted in culture transformation, employee experience, Covid-19, Covid

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It’s understandable to want to avoid the news at the moment, in fact many mental health charities recommend it as a method of self-care.  Chances are though, even if you’ve managed this, the reality of what’s happening to the UK economy and jobs market won’t have escaped your attention.  With 673,000 jobs lost between March and September this year (source: ONS/Independent) and more redundancies likely to take place when the Government’s Job Retention scheme ends, few people’s professional lives remain unaffected by Covid-19.

 

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What ball-tampering and other scandals tell us about corporate culture

26-Apr-2018 10:20:00 / by Marianna posted in culture transformation

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It seems to me that way too often, some large-scale scandal or another is splashed across the headlines.  Whether it’s famous sports figures failing drug tests, trusted corporations being caught red-handed cheating the system or our personal data being ’taken, analysed and used’ in ways we never granted permission for… it’s everywhere and it’s got me thinking!

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It's time to work on your company culture... but now what?

26-Mar-2018 17:21:25 / by Marianna posted in culture transformation

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As a leader you’ve seen and heard enough about the importance of culture.   You’ve made the conscious decision that it’s time to ‘get serious’ about your own culture and be deliberate in how it’s designed and managed. Your objectives are clear.  You want to...

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Do You Need Corporate Values... Yay or Nay?

17-Oct-2017 06:00:00 / by Marianna posted in culture transformation

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This is a really interesting topic and one I’ve heard debated many times, more recently at a Culturevist event talking about 'Culture as a Competitive Advantage'.  Company values seem to be a pre-requisite these days, yet I constantly hear leaders and executives complaining that they are not being lived.  When I was working for a large insurance company I remember the CEO saying “we’ve created our values with our people, we’ve spent a lot of money on communicating them out to the business, why are they not getting it… what’s the problem?!”… indeed!  
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Good Business Culture Examples... and their Culture Handbooks

29-Sep-2017 15:43:36 / by Marianna posted in culture transformation

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Successfully developing, embedding and sustaining one’s organisational culture is a feat within itself, seeking good business culture examples and learning from them can offer us a fresh and different perspective.

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The Role of Leaders in Changing Culture

22-Sep-2017 12:08:59 / by Marianna posted in culture transformation

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Make no mistake, your organisation has a culture.  Whether it was created by design or by default is another question but you definitely have one.  Contrary to what many culture academics believe however, there is no right or wrong culture.  There is only the culture that aligns to, and enables your organisation’s Purpose, Vision and Strategy, or the one that works against it... and the role of leaders in changing culture is critical!
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10 Signs your Culture is a Blocker

11-Sep-2017 15:17:22 / by Marianna posted in culture transformation

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Wha
t is this Culture thing a nd why is everyone talking about it? I’ve been involved in Culture work for over 12 years and it seems in the last 2 - 3 it’s become the buzz word of the moment, along with Future of Work, Gig Economy, Flexible Working and Employee Experience!
 
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