Yearly Archives: 2024

Leadership development is the lever for a thriving culture. Gallup research indicates that 70% of engagement can be traced back to an employee’s relationship with their manager. At DocuSign, employees actively love their leaders.

To write a great essay, you have to learn to write a great paragraph. To write a great paragraph, you have to learn to write a great sentence. A great company culture is developed the same way: You have to drive culture at each level of the organization, from departments to teams, team members, and individual actions.

Many companies currently face the challenge of scaling and sustaining company culture in a hybrid workplace. To state the obvious, you must adjust your approach. The same approach but in virtual format is not sufficient.

Many organizations struggle to identify their next generation of leaders. They may roll out rigorous selection processes or judge leadership capabilities based on past performance or increased responsibility.

The best way to obtain a realistic depiction of company culture is to ask your employees how they see it. That’s exactly how Buck approaches culture. She said, “If you asked one hundred employees why they're at Collective Health, all would say that they're here partly because of the mission of the company.”

Does this sound like you? You always feel busy. You have a ton on your plate. You work incredibly hard every day. However, at the end of the day or the week, you feel like you’re not getting enough done. You’re giving it your all, but you still don’t manage to get to the things that you know matter most.

Leadership and managerial effectiveness have always been critical business topics, however, since the onset of the pandemic, managers everywhere have taken on even greater importance.

Leaders are cultural carriers. Develop them and you can achieve an outsized impact on the day-to-day actions that shape your culture.