Workplace Culture Leadership: The Importance of Holding Employees Accountable
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by Michael Kerr
1M ago
Inspiring Culture Leaders are Accountable and They Hold Their Employees Accountable   Several years ago, I had the pleasure of visiting Beryl Health, a 24/7 call center based in Bedford, Texas. Beryl prides itself for embracing a family-first, fun workplace culture that is known for their amazing customer service. They hire for attitude and they engage in a lot of fun workplace rituals and traditions. The human resources manager even had the alternative job title, “The Queen of Fun and Laughter.” Now don’t for a minute equate the idea of a “fun, family-friendly workplace” with having low ..read more
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Workplace Values: How to Bring Your Workplace Values to Life
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by Michael Kerr
2M ago
What are these things called values that we all value so much at work? Well, you’ve got values at an individual level, even if you can’t always articulate them, you have values that drive how you make decisions that drive your behaviors in your personal life and your work life values that perhaps you hope to live up to values that you perhaps hope to instill within your children. At an organization level, every organization, every company has values. They’re not always good values, but every organization has values and most organizations, of course, have a list somewhere of those inspiring roc ..read more
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Why Workplace Culture Matters, What Workplace Culture Is, and How to be Intentional About Workplace Culture
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by Michael Kerr
2M ago
Why Workplace Culture Matters As a leader in today’s rapidly changing world you must embrace your role as a culture champion and understand that everything you do and say as a leader either adds to your workplace culture or detracts from your culture. You truly are the orchestra conductor of your workplace who sets the overall tone of your culture. You simply can’t separate your role as a leader from your focus on building a great culture: Great cultures don’t happen without great leaders, and conversely, great cultures produce great leaders. Your culture also just happens to be your #1 compet ..read more
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How to Be Intentional About Building a Great Workplace Culture
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by Michael Kerr
4M ago
Great cultures don’t happen by accident.   As a leader, you need to be consistently, relentlessly intentional about your culture.   So, what does that look like?   1. You need to promote your culture to the world. If you’re going to attract fabulous employees who are a fit for your organization, then you can’t remain the world’s best kept secret – you need to shout your awesomeness from the rooftops! It’s astounding how most company websites don’t say anything substantial about their culture. Sure, they’ll list their benefits and maybe toss in a casual nod towards their culture ..read more
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Why Being an Intentional Culture Leader Matters More Than Ever!
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by Michael Kerr
5M ago
Let’s start with the end in mind: One day we’re all going to be dead. (How’s that for an uplifting opening?) Hopefully it’s not going to happen for a very long time, but – spoiler alert — it is going to happen. If we’re fortunate, most of us have been allotted, on average, about 4,000 weeks in this rollicking adventure called life. When you put it in those terms, 4,000 weeks doesn’t sound like a lot, does it? Your last week probably sailed by ridiculously fast. And look, here comes another one right after that! Another reality check: You’ve already used up a lot of those weeks. In fact, chance ..read more
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Starting Your Workday Off on the Right Foot to Build a Better Workplace Culture
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by Michael Kerr
8M ago
When I was researching inspiring workplaces many moons ago in Copenhagen, Denmark, I had the pleasure of interviewing a “Chief Happiness Officer” and the author of Happy Hour is Nine to Five, Alexander Kjerulf. I love the concept of what Kjerulf calls a “Level Five” morning greeting at work. Given how important the start of the day is, and how important first impressions are, his good morning greeting scale serves as a great reminder for everyone to be more intentional about how they’re connecting with one another at work. Kjerulf breaks down the possible greeting levels as follows: Level 0 ..read more
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A Workplace Culture Checklist And 15 Culture Jump Starting Ideas to Shift Your Culture
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by Michael Kerr
9M ago
So you want to shift your workplace culture, but you don’t know where to begin? The following is a checklist of workplace questions to help you generate some conversations at work around what you might need to do to shift your culture, weaved in with some concrete ideas on what you can do to make a shift. Following the workplace culture questions, there are 15 ideas to help you jump start a culture shift in your workplace. Jump Starting a Culture Shift in Your Workplace   How do we define our workplace culture?   What words or images will we use to capture our desired culture? Wha ..read more
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Shifting Your Workplace Culture By Bringing Your Values to Life: How One Company Re-Energized Their Workplace
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by Michael Kerr
9M ago
AFA JCDecaux is the largest outdoor advertising company in the world, with offices in more than 59 countries. A huge success by many measures, the company had nevertheless lost its mojo a few years ago. When I met with CEO Kim Axelson in his Copenhagen, Denmark boardroom, the first thing I noticed was the welcoming plate of fresh food and delicious-looking danishes (Hey, I was hungry. And who wouldn’t want to eat a Danish danish?). The second thing I noticed was the bright yellow sign on the meeting room wall adorned with the text: “Blah blah blah… ACT NOW!”  Clearly, this was a place of ..read more
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What AI Has To Say About Humor, Humanity and The Challenge of Creating Humor
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by Michael Kerr
10M ago
As artificial intelligence continues to grow, and as more and more people and companies leverage the power of tools such as ChatGPT to generate content, I think it’s going to become more important than ever to embrace our humanity, creativity and yes, our humor, if we want to connect with our audiences and customers and stand out from the herd to be heard. So, despite being extremely leery of AI, I did ask ChatGPT to generate an article on the complexities of AI generating humor. Here’s what he/she/it came up with, and although it’s not in my voice or how I would have expressed it, it does a n ..read more
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To Motivate Your Employees Do This First: STOP De-Motivating Employees
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by Michael Kerr
10M ago
There is a mountain of research that suggests that the most important thing you can do to engage your employees is to STOP de-motivating them! In other words, it’s not so much the things you do that motivate employees (if you hired and trained them well, they should already be highly motivated) it’s the things you need to stop doing that are getting in the way of their motivation. From too many rules, to micromanaging, to endless meetings, there are a of things we leaders can stop doing to be more effective. For more ideas, watch the video below and let me know what you think? Does this resona ..read more
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