The Power of Company Culture: How Any Business can Build a Culture that Improves Productivity, Performance and Profits

✍ Scribed by Chris Dyer

Publisher: Kogan Page
Year: 2023
Tongue: English
Leaves: 273
Edition: 2
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Learn how to enhance workforce performance, strengthen workforce retention and better your leadership by cultivating and expanding on your company's culture with The Power of Company Culture.

This new edition provides detailed insights on the need for company transparency at work, the importance of a strong and positive culture and how leaders can go from supervising to supporting their teams to overall build a better work culture, all through hybrid and flexible working.

This book shows how to develop a company culture that improves productivity, performance, staff retention, company reputation and profits. Packed full of insights from leading practitioners at the forefront of developing outstanding company cultures from global companies such as Vayner Media, General Motors and Southwest Airlines. This is essential reading for all HR Managers and business leaders who are responsible for building, monitoring and managing culture in their organizations.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
About the author
Foreword by Mark Goulston
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART ONE Where to start
01 Foundations
Analysing the best and worst companies
Signs of good culture
Signs of bad and ugly culture
How do we build good culture?
Notes
02 Evaluation
The nuts and bolts of culture
Get ready to build great culture
Notes
PART TWO The seven pillars of culture success
03 Pillar I: Transparency
What is transparency?
The value of transparency
Ways to increase transparency
Pillar I review
Notes
04 Pillar II: Positivity
Positive ‘problem’ solving
Putting positivity into practice
Pillar II review
Notes
05 Pillar III: Measurement
The value of measurement and big data
What to measure and why
How and where to get information
What to do with your results
Pillar III review
Notes
06 Pillar IV: Acknowledgement
Incentives are important
Recognition-based systems
Appreciation and personalization
Reward-based systems
Pillar IV review
Notes
07 Pillar V: Uniqueness
Workplace uniqueness
Brand uniqueness
The role of unique language
Pillar V review
Notes
08 Pillar VI: Listening
How we listen
Barriers to meaningful listening
Better listening
Remote listening
Pillar VI review
Notes
09 Pillar VII: Mistakes
What are mistakes in business?
Follow mistakes towards improvement
How to handle mistakes
Remote and hybrid considerations
Pillar VII review
Notes
PART THREE Culture in action
10 Engaging the decision-makers
Review your pillars
Assess company needs
Choose your target
Deliver the goods
Presentation tips
Notes
11 Achievement
Set group priorities
Select your messengers
Present it to the people
Move towards group achievement
Looking forward
Notes
Index

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