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) […]
More Stars, Fewer Vacuums: A Surefire Way to Improve Employee Performance and Company Culture
In every organization, the dynamics between employees play a crucial role in shaping overall success. But understanding the interplay between dozens, hundreds, or thousands of employees in a company can be an overwhelming task. Fortunately, we can simplify it for you. Employees can be categorized into one of three broad archetypes with respect to their […]
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 […]
Your Biggest Weapon for Employee Retention
If you were to attend any of the various leadership development programs offered by BetterCulture, it’s likely that you would hear your instructor use some variation of the following phrase in the program introduction: “Outstanding leaders possess the mindsets and skillsets necessary to help their organization attract, build, motivate and retain an outstanding team.” We […]
Culture: The Key to Excellence in Healthcare
Get ready for an eye-opening webinar where we pull back the curtain on how one long-term care provider rose to the top as an amazing place to work. We’re diving into the nitty-gritty – the smart moves, inventive ideas, and guiding philosophies that got them there. You’ll walk away with practical tips and golden nuggets […]
Seven Principles of Leadership: What It Means to Lead
‘Leadership’ is such a hyped-up word. Yet, for all the attention it gets, inspired and effective leadership is still hard to find. Surprisingly, the cause of this problem is pretty basic – a lack of clarity of thought on what it means to be a leader. In this webinar BetterCulture co-founder Brett Hoogeveen will bring […]
Sharing Engagement Survey Results
The Give and Take of Virtual Work
(NOTE: This article is written for organizations that are not already operating in a fully remote or remote-first way. Many of the statements made in this article are less likely to apply if your organization operates entirely remotely or with a remote-first mindset.) If your organization is grappling with questions about how much (or how […]
Employee Pride: The Bedrock of Company Culture
As a wise leader once commented, “Being the part-time mail clerk of a great company is worthy of pride; being the CEO of a lousy company is worthy of shame.” After years conducting our BetterCulture employee engagement surveys and reviewing and presenting results across wide-ranging industries, one thing has become clear: when employee pride is […]
How Companies Use On-Demand Leadership Training
Part 1 Many companies struggle to provide consistent, effective, and engaging leadership training. Two years ago, our team at BetterCulture thought it was a fool’s errand to try to develop leaders using on-demand content. Then COVID-19 happened. We offered this webinar to share the lessons we’ve learned through launching our own on-demand MindSet Leadership Program […]