Tag: high performance culture

Leadership

Curating a High Peformance Culture

Premise: Let’s talk about culture. What is it? How is it built? Who is responsible for it? How to change it? There is a multi-million-dollar consulting industry that exists to solely answer these questions. Every leader worth following grapples with these questions constantly. They are trying to get the culture just right for their teams, so that they can perform at their absolute best, without burning themselves out. There are some who believe that the culture of any organization is created by their leaders. It mimics the leader and the value system of the leader. Some believe that culture is […]

Leadership

Curate A High Performance Culture by Celebrating Small Wins Daily

Premise: I did a 100-day challenge of clicking a picture and sharing it on Instagram of something that I thought was beautiful. Now, I constantly see beautiful things all around me wherever I go. Being intentional about what we want to notice, results in our brains getting very good at noticing it all around us. Leadership works the same way. Culture is shaped not only by strategy and incentives, but by what leaders consistently notice, celebrate and tolerate. From childhood we are trained to find and focus on what is wrong instead of focusing on what is right. When we […]

Leadership

Foundation for a High Performance Culture

One of the most fundamental foundations of a culture that enables high performance is a sense of belonging amongst the people who are part of that culture. This sense of belonging takes root when we trust our colleagues enough to show up as who we are, with all our strengths and faults. This sense of belonging takes root when the arguments and debates are about ideas and their merits and not about people and their beliefs. This sense of belonging takes root when the people know and trust their leaders to have their best interest in mind. This sense of […]