Time is ripe for Everyone cultures. If you don’t built it, who will?
An Everyone culture weaves a developmental approach into every corner of the workplace to ensure the personal growth, engagement, agency and thrive of every single employee.
Many workplaces still have cultures that drain the bottom line
The time has come for radical upgrades of our workplace cultures to transform them into environments that make us thrive, instead of making us sick. Workplace cultures that enable strategies instead of eating them for lunch. Workplace cultures that build both bigger humans and better bottom lines.
In our work we stand on the shoulders of many great thinkers. One of them is Robert Kegan, a former Harvard professor in developmental psychology. He argues that in most organisations nearly everyone is doing a second job nobody is paying them for - namely covering their weaknesses, trying to look their best, and managing other people's impressions of them. There may be no greater waste of a company's resources. The ultimate cost: neither the organisation nor its people are able to realise their full potential. The current trend towards ‘Quiet Quitting’ validates this claim, and Gallup’s latest survey provides some scary numbers to back it up.
The way we are going to be a better company is by you working on yourself, and helping others work on themselves.
– Robert Kegan, former Harvard Professor
Create an everyone culture that safeguards your bottom line
Everyone cultures are rooted in the radical conviction that organisations will best prosper when they are more deeply aligned with one of the strongest human motivators: growth. This means fashioning an organisational culture where the support of people's development is woven into the daily fabric of working life through processes, practices and conversations.
Experience has taught us that culture work is highly complex and most culture change programs fail to achieve their ambitions. In our work with culture upgrades, we are conscious of two important insights and learnings:
Culture is strategy. For us to work successfully with you, culture has to be on the strategic agenda. Your culture determines what is easy and what is hard to do, and thus also what opportunities you are capable of leveraging. Your culture is the foundation that your business stands on.
Cultivating higher trust is a critical first step to upgrading your culture. . Whatever your starting point, trust levels can always be raised both individually, in teams, within the organisation, and among stakeholders. Many companies are challenged by so-called “fake high trust” because most of us lack the principles, language and the enabling constraints and practices that support the daily journey into the true high trust landscape.Each culture journey is unique, so standard recipes, and ‘implementation tools’ do not apply. While we can plan assessments and schedule workshop interventions, introduce and train new practices and processes, upgrading your culture is better regarded as a continuous process of ‘sense and respond’. It is an experiential journey where at each step, the best way forward is determined by the unique culture challenges in your organisation, and how people respond to and make sense of each new interventionThus, together we will continuously adapt the approach to fit the current reality and the direction of the culture journey.
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