Leading While Green: What New Leaders Need to Know
If you’re a newly appointed manager, you’re probably learning that leadership is a lot more than making decisions and telling people what to do. Leadership is a complex and ever-changing craft – and it takes time and practice to improve. The good news is that BetterCulture co-founder Brett Hoogeveen is here to help new managers […]
What is Poisoning Your Company Culture?
Over BetterCulture’s 10+ years of company culture research and work with hundreds of clients, the #1 poison to healthy company culture is clear. It’s your negative employees. These “vacuums” as we call them, suck away all the energy and fun and leave your positive and productive employees feeling drained. As a manager or executive, it’s […]
What Every Company Should Know About Employee Engagement Surveys
Organizations are finally starting to understand the impact and importance of company culture. But, there are still questions that remain unanswered – how should organizations measure their culture, how do they know where to improve, and, most importantly, how do they know if they are making any progress? We’ve got answers to all these questions […]
The Essentials for Leading Remote and Hybrid Teams
Looking to hone your skills as a leader of a hybrid or remote team? Join BetterCulture co-founder Brett Hoogeveen for a primer on which leadership strategies are working best in today’s distributed team climate. You’ll hear some of the common challenges of leading a hybrid or remote team, and learn best practices on how to […]
Instilling Pride Within the Workplace
After years conducting our BetterCulture employee engagement surveys one thing has become clear: when employee pride is low, culture suffers. When employees are proud of where they work, employee engagement soars. Given the importance of the pride factor, it is unfortunate that learning how to build pride within an employee base is seldom (okay, never) […]
Leadership Skills for New Managers: What New Leaders Need to Know
If you’re a newly appointed manager, you’re probably learning (hopefully not the hard way!) that leadership is a lot more than making decisions and delegating tasks. Leadership is a complex and ever-changing craft – and it takes time and practice to master. The good news is that we’re here for you, and there are some […]
Empowering Leaders at Every Level: The 20 Tenets of Culture
More than likely, you’ve been thinking about company culture as something that needs to originate from the top – the executives – in your organization. You’re not wrong. In fact, this is what most leadership trainers and culture consultants have espoused for years. But it’s a one-sided perspective, and top-heavy. For a complete approach to […]
22 Characteristics of Amazing Supervisors
Leading Remote and Hybrid Teams: What Managers Need to Know
Managing remote and hybrid teams doesn’t have to be a challenge! If you equip yourself with the right strategies, it can lead to great team culture, company culture and strong relationships among colleagues. This article is designed to help you better understand the differences between remote leadership and hybrid leadership, along with two lists of […]
The Holy Grail: Team Leadership
If you are like most organizations (those companies not actively engaged in ongoing culture shaping processes), the company culture you have now is a relatively fixed quantity. It’s stable, consistent. Sir Isaac Newton – who coined the elegant Three Laws of Motion in the 1680s – might even say it’s “at rest.” Whoa, did we […]