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Workplace Culture

20 articles about workplace culture - what is happening, and what to do about it.

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  Month four: why culture fixes fade

  Many culture fixes work for a few weeks, then slide back. What a survey found, why effects fade, and three things to do before month four.

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  Bad management: what the research says a team lead actually changes

  Bad management is usually ordinary, not villainous. What CIPD and iHire found about leaders, why offsites and 360s miss it, and three things to do tomorrow.

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  Blame culture: why the best-rated teams report more mistakes

  Where mistakes are punished they get hidden, and the hidden ones cost the most. What the research says about blame culture, and three things to do tomorrow.

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  When company reputation slips, your own people feel it first

  How staff think outsiders see the company goes with their pride and their plans to leave. What the research shows, and three things to do tomorrow.

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  Conflict in the workplace: split the argument from the friction

  44% of working-age adults in Britain had conflict at work in a year. What the research says about the kind that hurts a team, and three things to do tomorrow.

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  Workplace ethics: why people who see a lapse stay quiet, and what helps

  A rounded-up figure, a quiet room: why people who see a small lapse at work say nothing, what the research says, and three things to do tomorrow.

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  How to give feedback: point it at the work, and ask for some back

  Feedback helps on average, yet in one large review 38% of the effects were negative. What the research says about why, and three things to do tomorrow.

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  Job insecurity: what it does to a team, and what a manager can honestly say

  Job insecurity is linked to worse performance and health. What the research says, and what a manager can honestly say when they cannot promise anything.

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  Lack of trust in the workplace: how it erodes, and what rebuilds it

  Trust at work rests on three things people judge: ability, benevolence and integrity. What the research says about losing it, and three things to do tomorrow.

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  Low morale in the workplace: the pizza does not fix it, progress comes first

  How to boost team morale: why treats and thank-you emails miss, what a diary study found about progress, and three things to do tomorrow.

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  Poor communication in the workplace: why one more update does not fix it

  Poor communication at work is often a message that was sent and never arrived. What the research says, why another update fails, and what to do.

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  Resistance to change: information, confidence and a say

  What looks like resistance to change is often missing information, doubt about coping or no say. What the research shows, and three things to try tomorrow.

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  Why good people leave, and what a team can do before the exit interview

  Why good people leave, what two surveys and two studies say about staff turnover, why the exit interview comes too late, and three things to do this week.

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  Working in silos: why more meetings are not the fix

  Working in silos is a handoff problem. What the research says about sharing across teams, why another meeting does not fix it, and three habits for tomorrow.

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  Keeping your culture when you double

  How to build culture after the headcount jumps: why new joiners have only read your values, how rarely values show in practice, and what to do tomorrow.

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  Culture as a Product: the iceberg, the weather, and what you can actually steer

  Behaviour is the tip, values are the ninety per cent underwater. The iceberg model MeaningFuel is built on, and the four things it refuses to do.

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  7 Hidden Culprits Sabotaging Your Organizational Culture

  Organisational culture rarely fails loudly. It fails as seven small habits nobody flags in a review, until the exit interviews start rhyming.

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  The Power of Organizational Cultural Health - In Numbers

  The case for organisational culture, and the case against, with each figure marked for how well it holds up. Includes the $10 trillion most decks leave out.

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  The Two-Minute Habit - Why Micro-Insights Beat the Offsite

  Atomic Habits was right about compounding and quiet about the failure mode. Why daily micro-insights work, and what a two-minute ritual has to give back.

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  Employee Wellbeing Is a Culture Problem, Not a Benefits Problem

  The largest study of individual workplace wellbeing programmes found participants no better off. What employee wellbeing money really buys.