More Stars, Fewer Vacuums: A Sure-Fire Way to Improve Employee Performance and Company Culture employee development Jun 27, 2023

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 ...

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Leadership Skills for New Managers: What New Leaders Need to Know leadership May 30, 2023

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,...

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How Much Does Company Culture Really Matter? 40+ Real Business Metrics Impacted by Your People and Culture (with sources)! workplace culture May 09, 2023

Tired of hearing that “culture matters” without any proof? At BetterCulture, we understand your skepticism. That's why we pulled together research from top academics and industry professionals to prove how much culture really matters.

We found 40 (and counting!) hard-hitting business metrics that p...

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Your Biggest Weapon for Employee Retention employee development Mar 30, 2023

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 thei

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Leading Remote and Hybrid Teams: What Managers Need to Know leadership Feb 10, 2023

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 leade...

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The Holy Grail: Team Leadership leadership Jan 13, 2023

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 ...

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Culture Initiatives: Finding Someone to Drive workplace culture Dec 19, 2022

If you want to create and protect a great culture within your work setting – a lot is required. In fact, our entire company, BetterCulture, is dedicated to helping our clients do exactly that.

If you want the best shot at building and maintaining a great culture, we believe that you need to designa...

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The #1 Poison to Company Culture workplace culture Nov 30, 2022

“People are our most valuable resource”, so says dang near every CEO. And though it may be trite, it is also true. Here is something else that is not as often said but is also true: one of the most damaging factors to any organization can also be your people.

Thankfully, we are usually talking abou...

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What Makes a Good Supervisor: 22 Characteristics leadership Sep 26, 2022

What would the world of work be like if every employee worked for a world-class manager? Well…that’s a lot to consider…and we can’t say for sure. But we’re like 99.99% sure it would be UH-MAZ-ING!

But to even take the first step in getting to uh-maz-ing, we first need to know what a world-class sup...

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The Give and Take of Virtual Work workplace culture Aug 31, 2022

(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 grappl...

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Empowering Leaders at Every Level: The 20 Tenets of Culture workplace culture Jul 29, 2022

Ideas with the potential to change an established way of thinking are few and far between. But when they come, they arrive with a bang!

In our decade plus of work at BetterCulture helping clients develop leaders and build stronger workplace cultures, we’ve delivered hundreds of speeches, trained th...

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Employee Pride: The Bedrock of Company Culture workplace culture Jun 27, 2022

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...

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