Organisational Culture: Ingrained practice or another tick box exercise?

Organisational culture is the way your business operates every single day and over the long term. 

Genuine culture needs to involve everyone, every system and a similar mindset throughout your organisation, not just a vision or, superficial training rolled out periodically.

Employees experience your organisation’s culture first hand and expect the reality to align with your stated values.  A company not living its culture will very quickly see disengagement among its people.  This will inevitably lead to increased turnover of staff and the potential loss of quality team members.

It is common to see organisations conduct Town Hall’s, distribute posters displaying their values and carrying out engagement surveys. Whilst these are great, they only serve a purpose if they promote actual change in your organisation.  If nothing changes, employees will see right through it and not take initiatives or, leadership seriously.

A strong and positive culture will not only retain and attract the best talent it, will increase employee engagement, improve efficiency and from an external stakeholder perspective improve your brand’s reputation.  Ultimately, culture is the foundation upon which your business will be successful.