Leadership Reflections & Resolutions: Lead Your Team to Its Healthiest Year Yet
With a new year just around the corner, it’s the perfect time to hit pause and ask yourself: Is my leadership making waves or just treading water? The new year is all about fresh starts and big goals, so why not set some leadership resolutions that will make a real difference for you and your […]
From Interviews to Impact: Enhancing Your Hiring Process
In many companies, interviews are conducted as a one-way exchange. The prospective employer uses the process to learn as much valuable information about the candidate as possible. That’s how it’s supposed to work, right? It’s as if we’re peering through a narrow window, hoping to catch a glimpse of the applicant’s potential. Employers would be […]
Integrating “Crucial Conversations” & “Radical Candor”: A Roadmap to Managing & Resolving Conflict
BetterCulture spends a good amount of training time helping our clients to recognize (a) the big-time benefits of intellectual conflict and (b) the big-time damage that can result from personal conflict. Exceptional leaders embrace the former and avoid (or quickly resolve) the latter – something easier said than done. In line with this topic, often […]
Seeing Eye to Eye: How Leaders Can Align on Employee Assessment
When assessing the quality and value of a given employee, opinions can, and often will, vary. In the day-to-day running of our operations, it probably doesn’t make much difference if one supervisor rates an employee a 6 and another would rate that same employee an 8. But when it comes to important decisions such as […]
Cultivating Appreciation: Recognizing and Retaining Your Stars
The 3 Types of Employees When it comes to the impact your current employees have on culture, you can separate them into three buckets. We spend a good amount of time at BetterCulture helping our clients to address the damage done by Vacuums, but for this blog I want to focus on your Stars. My […]
Decoding Teams: 7 Key Elements for Success
Few would disagree that outstanding teamwork can make a significant contribution to the success of any enterprise. The challenge is getting a clear vision of what we mean by “outstanding teamwork.” Andrew Carnegie defined teamwork as the ability to work together toward a common vision. He identified this as “the fuel that allows common people […]
Unveiling Workplace Excellence: 5 Lessons from Behind the Curtain
Have you ever wondered what it takes for a long-term care provider to become the best place to work in the region? Our recent webinar, “A Look Behind the Curtain: How One Long-Term Care Provider Became a Best Place to Work,” peeled back the layers to reveal the strategic initiatives, innovative practices, and unwavering commitment […]
Chief Culture Officer: The 4 Keys to Success
Every now and then a new idea comes along that is just flat-out good. So good, in fact, that it’s silly to argue against it. We have one of those to share with you. If you want (we mean really want) to create and protect a top-notch culture in your work setting, you MUST identify […]