Leadership is too often a word that is misused and gets a frustrated response. Actually what people miss in the discussion is the purpose of leadership. This year, more than ever, we need our organisations and businesses to be strong to do well during the challenging times ahead, whether our teams are working from home or from offices, together or scattered around the countryside.
Today there is much debate about the pros and cons of returning to the office, and about dealing with a reluctance to return to the office more often. Whichever solution you choose, it will work if the teams are better engaged. So it is urgent to focus more on the impact of “CULTURE” and in fact on building an “ENGAGED CULTURE“.
Let me ask you 2 questions:
- What would your business or organisation look like IF you could halve the number of disengaged employees?
- How about doubling the number of open honest conversations – what would that do to your business?
At Bridgeworks we focus on what builds great organisations.
So we developed a simple and powerful model,<href=”https://www.bridgeworks.com.au/794/business-culture-trust-matrix-what-builds-great-business/”>The Business Culture Trust Matrix.
And we explain it in this video on the dynamics of culture. You will see how culture can be destroyed and how an effective engaged culture can be restored to make an organisation great again.
Pre Covid, in April 2019, our Leaders In Action Breakfast Forum “Building A Winning Culture” attracted a large attendance, demonstrating how relevant the topic was then for many business people. And, judging by the many conversations we have in diverse forums, that interest has retained its momentum. You may like to listen to some a coupe of short videos from that event in Building A Winning Culture podcast series.
How To Build A Culture Of Engagement
The first step is to “take the pulse” of your organisation. We recommend these 2 starting points:
The Organisation & Team Health Check is the benchmarking tool our clients find highly effective in assessing their team or organisation. That is because it allows leaders and team members to measure their team/department or organisation in 4 key areas: Leadership, relationships, environment & behaviour. It paints a clear picture of opportunities that we address first through highly interactive and practical workshops then with focused follow-up implementation support.
“How Others See You” is another powerful tool we use. Unlike classic 360 feedback tools, it measures who you actually are: how your behaviour and attitudes build trust; and it assesses your interpersonal effectiveness.
That process anchors the Bridgeworks workshops and support programs that enable our clients to lift the engagement of their teams. And this leads to opening new opportunities for high performance.
Explore How We Restore Engagement And Performance
Because culture is an endemic issue in the Australian workplace, we run introductory workshops to engage leaders and leadership teams in the thinking about cultural change and understanding the solutions. And we can conduct these sessions online whenver necessary, as during the Covid period we adapted all our programs to an effective virtual format.e
Bridgeworks’ 3-hour discovery workshops are great sessions to explore how we tackle workplace culture, how we tackle the difference between “managing” and “leading”. All based on research as to what Aussies expect and want from their leaders and the culture into which they put their heart and soul!
Find out:
- What Aussies expect of their leaders.
- Measuring how you lead. The good, the bad and the ugly.
- Why our experiential approach to learning has lasting impact.
- Why conflict is a good thing in teams and what to do about it.
- A fun and insightful session of learning and networking.
Come and explore your leadership, your culture as we showcase Bridgeworks tools and processes that are impacting workplace cultures
Also check out some of the other culture-building tools we like to use, such as Values Journey and Brave Truth®