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While on one hand some businesses experiencing staff layoffs, on the other hand, a lot of businesses facing talents shortages and struggling to fill roles. Here’s what to do if you’re one of those businesses.
Paul, Karly and Gerard talk about what makes people leave a workplace and how leaders should respond.
We introduce our newest PBD team member, Chloe, and chat about how to work with older or younger teammates.
Join this week’s CCL to hear from Roosy, Karly and Marc about:
- A Headspace report saying employees are feeling a sense of uncertainty and dread at work.
- The importance of building strong culture foundations.
- How to understand different personalities and their response to change.
Links to the articles mentioned:
workforceattitudes-MAY42023.pdf (hubspotusercontent-na1.net)
How to reduce change resistance in your team (insights.com)
The Performance by Design teams shares their top lessons they learned while working with various clients around the world.
This Culture Couch Live delves into feeling safe to speak up at work. The team also speak to the dynamic of new employees and how they tend to want to fit into the culture they walk into, and may not speak out about any disfunction they may see.
This CultureCouchLive delves into how boards can identify toxic work culture and stop it.
This Culture Couch Live discusses the challenges that leaders and middle managers experience around coaching their team, when it's so easy to take over and do the work on their own. In the sporting world, a coach's role is clearly defined and they are not able to get onto the field and make a pass for a player, but in the corporate world, this isn't the case, which leads leaders/managers often taking over for their team instead of taking the time to coach/lead them.
This week in Culture Couch Live, we chat with discuss about the importance of having external expertise/facilitation support around your team meetings.Is it worthwhile to bring in external expertise to your leadership conferences?
In this #CultureCouchLive, the PBD team discuss two different perspectives (from Cal Newport & Tom Harley) on how to handle busyness and still get your work done.
This week in Culture Couch Live, we chat about feedback in the corporate world. The team chat about what's needed to create a safe working environment that allows for an open and honest feedback system with the goal to make the organization/person better.
This Culture Couch Live discusses what is corporate culture and how do you create a culture that you want.
With pressure increasing on middle managers, especially after the pandemic, the PBD team explore what they see what works best when it comes to supporting middle management on this Culture Couch Live.
In our 13th week of Culture Couch Live for 2023 we chat about feedback. How do you create a feedback system?
In our 12th week of Culture Couch Live for 2023 we chat with discuss about the importance of having external expertise/facilitation support around your team meetings. Is it worthwhile to bring in external expertise to your leadership conferences?
In our 11th week of Culture Couch Live for 2023 we chat with discuss how companies hire Performance and Culture reps into a business to fix issues. Why doesn't this always work?
In our 10th week of Culture Couch Live for 2023 we ask challenges with colleagues. Can you work with people you do not like?
In our 9th week of Culture Couch Live for 2023 we chat with Lorraine Gray from HydroOne about their evolution under the influence of the PBD system.
This episode of Culture Couch Live features Paul Roos and team discuss why feedback is critical to high performance, and how to deliver it effectively.
In the 5th week of Culture Couch Live for 2023, we introduce our newest team mate, Marc Edwards. Listen to Marc and the PBD team talk about his past experience and his first weeks with the Performance by Design team in Melbourne.
Welcome to the 4th episode of Culture Couch Live for 2023. In this weeks session we chat with one of our clients Marcus Carmont. CCO at TMX Global. Marcus is a true leader. He's very dedicated to culture, to performance and sustained performance.Over the last period TMX Global has had a 300% increase in headcount all against the backdrop of a pandemic.Listen to Marcus talk about his journey with leadership and the PBD system.
Welcome to the 3rd episode of Culture Couch Live for 2023.
In this episode we discuss, what are the generational challenges facing businesses today? What are the challenges of each generation in the modern workforce. If you want to change and find an purpose as to why you're changing, “it simply has to be about performance”. Don't get that caught up in the generational differences. The generational differences do not matter.
The question you have to ask yourself is, "do you want to keep getting better for yourself and for the betterment of the team?" Simply, the answer has to be yes.
Welcome to the 2nd episode of Culture Couch Live for 2023.
In this weeks session we chat with one of our clients Nadia Allan from Dabble. Nadia's been instrumental in the business, driving growth. From a people and culture point of view, we discuss the current landscape in terms of recruitment, retention, culture and the importance of a strong onboarding process.
Welcome to Culture Couch Live for the first time in 2023.
In this episode we discuss our partnership with Insights Discovery in Australia and New Zealand.
Insights Discovery has done some really good research around collaboration. One question they chose to answer “what has the impact of the pandemic been on collaboration?”
The stats say that time spent collaborating has dropped from 43% before the pandemic, down to 27% after the pandemic. We're all about driving high performing teams and to be high performing, we know that there has to be a level of collaboration because that's the way you become high performing. So if collaboration has dropped from 43 to 27%, what impact does that have on culture? And if we're going to have a hybrid workplace, which we know we will have some level, ongoing, how do we bring that together to drive the collaboration so that we still get the performance at the end of the day?
Let's be really frank on what collaboration is. Effectively, it's teamwork.
You've got to go back and look why aren't people coming into the office?
If you are the boss, you have to lead by example. You cannot expect others to be in, if you are not.
Don't tell the people to come in and stay at home. Make sure that if you are a senior leader in the company, an executive, you are doing as you ask others to do.
It's not like we haven't had hybrid workers in the past. But that freedom has always been to the benefit of the company. It's never been what the particular individual wants to do.
Is the hybrid workplace the best thing for the company or is it the best thing for the individual?
Some of it comes down to whether being in, is a means of control or not for leaders?
For individuals, empowerment is more important now than ever.
Leaders really have to step up now and really role model what that looks like because without it, you're going to have massive turnover.
The question we ask in our programs often is “do you see yourself as a team?”
We believe that's probably one of the biggest challenges we see in terms of developing culture. In a lot of instances the answer is no. When it should be yes. Even more so now, without interaction the means to create team environment is harder. That hasn't been a thing that's changed since the pandemic, but the pandemic has exacerbated it.
If the group is not coming together every quarter and refocusing on themselves as a team, then there's a lot less chance that they’re going to be unified in achieving what they want to achieve.
Listen to Emile Studham who leads our Canadian entity talk about leadership, culture and performance.
Listen to Emile Studham who leads our Canadian entity talk about leadership, culture and performance.
This week he interviews Tony Gareri (https://www.tonygareri.com/), an icon in the world of culture in Canada. Listen to Tony talk about the transformation of Roma Moulding and his interactions with Tony Hsieh (Zappos - "Delivering Happiness").
If you'd like Emile to answer questions with key leaders, please email info@performancebydesign.co
Listen to Emile Studham who leads our Canadian entity talk about leadership, culture and performance.
If you'd like Emile to answer questions with key leaders, please email info@performancebydesign.co