Company Culture
WE CREATE A CULTURE OF CONNECTION™ WITHIN ORGANIZATIONS THAT ULTIMATELY LEADS TO INCREASED ENGAGEMENT, RETENTION, AND PRODUCTIVITY
3 Signs Your Team Culture is Rotten
At some point, bad company culture will catch up to you, so it’s best to improve company culture sooner rather than later.
To help you avoid the danger ahead, here are three signs your company culture might be in trouble:
1) Owner-Coach-Player Gap
To avoid an Owner-Coach-Player gap, make sure there are communication channels in place that drive important information quickly up and down the line. Also, as a leader, figure out ways to occasionally put yourself “on the floor” with your frontline workers. That way you’ll not only get a first-hand experience of what it’s like, you’ll also build a relationship with your players.
2) Lack of Ownership
If you are struggling with your team members only doing what they are told or is part of their job description, your culture might be in danger. To turn things around, start rewarding those who are stepping up so others see the value in doing more. Also, have one-on-one conversations with each team member to find out their intrinsic motivators. Find out what most excites them about the job and see if you can align some responsibilities (not just more tasks) for them to be in charge of.
3) Unbalanced Social Time
The phrase you know is, “Work hard, play hard.” The phrase is not, “Work a little bit, and socialize the rest of the time.” Your team should love working within your organization. You want them to love the work they do as well as each other and the office environment. While you may be flexible on work hours and social time, what you shouldn’t be flexible about are outcomes and metrics. Check your team to see how balanced their work time is versus their social time, and if things are out of whack.
MEET Tom
LEAD FACILITATOR
After starting his first business in college that grew to $1.5 million in annual sales, Tom went on to be the Founder and Lead Facilitator of Swift Kick. Since 2004, Tom has trained over 850,000 leaders around the US and the world including England, South Korea, Indonesia, and Bermuda on how to build a Culture of Connection™ within their organization.
Tom has trained leaders at some of the largest companies in the world such as Coca Cola, Pfizer, Apple, and Nike. Through his speaking, he holds an unprecedented 7 National Speaking Titles from APCA. He is a TEDx speaker, held a Guinness World Record, and he sat on the boards for both the NYC Entrepreneurs’ Organization for 5 years and the NYC National Speaker’s Associating for two years.
Tom’s award winning program, Dance Floor Theory™, is recognized as the standard best practice for increasing community member engagement and retention rates. Organizations both small and as large as the U.S. Military have brought Tom in to train and deploy his methodology to turn apathy into action.
And on a personal note, Tom lives just outside of New Year City, was named after a cat, was on a reality show on NBC, was featured on the Tofurky box, got kicked off the Oprah Winfrey show, and loves peanut butter so much that he filed paper work to start a festival in NYC called the NYC Peanut Butter Jam.