Team Building
Getting ‘Culture’ Right
Eventbrite’s co-founder and president, Julia Hartz woke up from a nightmare, and decided to leverage her company’s amazing culture to drive performance, earnings and shareholder value. Take a look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1mHDhIMyKs&feature=player_embedded
Read MoreThe Power of ‘Thanks’
We here at The Curci Group talk a lot about leadership, communication, and engagement, offering a lot of advice on various things to do and not do. But thereâs just one very small thing you can do today that will have a dramatic impact on the productivity and engagment of your employees: say âthank you.â…
Read MoreHow can walking improve your productivity?
Today is National Walk@Lunch Day, so grab your Fitbit and get moving. An increasing number of companies are incorporating wellness and activity into their culture as a means of improving the health of their employees and reducing health care costs. Plenty of research also shows that wellness programs have a significant impact on productivity and…
Read MoreBuilding Culture from Within…
One of the biggest challenges for CEOs in large organizations is preserving a healthy and vibrant culture. As an organization grows, and leaders are forced to focus outward, employees can begin to feel disconnected. The CEOs ability to maintain personal contact with employees up and down the org chart becomes daunting and eventually impossible. The…
Read MoreGet Out of the Rut and Into the Lead with Factory Week
How can you possibly focus on the big picture when youâre stuck in the weeds? It may be time for a kick in the pants. Maybe your company website needs a total overhaul. Or a great idea for a new product just isnât getting off the ground. Maybe youâve noticed that morale is low and…
Read MoreSo, What Exactly Do You Mean By âAccountability?â
Take a look at any organizations list of values or guiding principles, and odds are youâll see âaccountabilityâ featured prominently⊠and for good reason. But what do we really mean by accountability? And how can we effectively track, measure and reward accountability? In leadership roles, accountability is sometimes described as the acknowledgment and assumption of…
Read MoreSystems Thinking
Organizational theorist and Wharton Professor Emeritus, Russ Ackoff taught that the most flexible part of a system will drive the system. âHumans are the ONLY organizational subsystem capable of situational awareness and adaptation to a shifting environment. Process and technology (often the focus of change efforts) are inert, and lack the ability to learn and…
Read MoreWhy HR Still isn’t a Strategic Partner
Experience suggests that HR departments can play a much bigger role in an organization’s strategy. From aligning job specifications around strategic objectives, to designing successful on-boarding, retention, engagement and recognition programs, HR directors need to understanding the breadth of their role, and continually stay current and active in all of these areas. J. Craig Mundy…
Read MoreCompare your corporate culture to best-practice organizations
S. Chris Edmonds, writing for SmartBlog on Leadership looks at the attributes of high-performance, valued-aligned companies. It make take some time, but get these five things right and you could be on your way.
Read MoreHow Would You Assess Your Organization’s Culture? Why Should You Care?
Consider this. Research show that companies that consistently focused on building strong valuesâdriven cultures over a period of several decades outperformed companies that did not by a factor of six, and outperformed the general stock market by a factor of fifteen. So, what are the values, norms, beliefs, language and symbols informing your company’s culture?…
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