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Does your culture need courage?

Date: 12.07.2018Author: Marcella Bremer

A corporate CEO invited some executives to a meeting from two different levels. He asked a question and then went around the table getting input. When he got to one of the lower level executives, he said: "Sorry, I just want to hear from (the higher level) folks" and moved on.There was an embarrassed silence, and then the meeting went on. The next higher-ranked executive answered the question, and the moment passed.

Change, Leadership, Organizational culture

Are you part of a Positive Change Circle?

Date: 14.06.2018Author: Marcella Bremer

Seventeen consultants and leaders from four continents spent three days together in a countryside venue on a riverbank. The May 2018 Culture Change Leadership Workshop was intense. The topics: organizational culture, organizational change, the Competing Values Framework and the OCAI, positive leadership, positive culture, change circles, and interaction interventions.

Change, Competing Values Framework, Leadership, OCAI, Organizational culture

A high-performance culture is a positive culture

Date: 12.04.2018Author: Marcella Bremer

The OCAI culture survey asks people to rate both their current culture and what they desire for the future. What do you think? What would your ideal organizational culture look like?

Change, Competing Values Framework, Leadership, OCAI, Organizational culture

Positive Culture Webinar

Date: 8.03.2018Author: Marcella Bremer

Do you or your clients need their organizations to be more innovative, agile, productive, and engaging? Then helping them develop a more positive culture is something to seriously consider.

Change, Leadership, Organizational culture

Me Too

Date: 19.10.2017Author: Marcella Bremer

What has the #MeToo movement on social media to do with organizational culture? It's a great example of a social movement trying to change a culture, starting with what I call "Interaction Interventions".

Change, Leadership, Organizational culture

How is your Culture Quotient?

Date: 8.02.2017Author: Marcella Bremer

Does your organization have a strong, homogeneous culture? Is that desirable? Does everyone hold the same values, beliefs, priorities, norms, preferences? Does everyone eat the same lunch menu every day?

Change, Leadership, Organizational culture

To Ask is to learn from Cultural Differences

Date: 26.01.2017Author: Marcella Bremer

What is your biggest challenge with organizational culture? That’s an extra question we ask all free respondents who use the Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument. Just because we’re curious - what are you struggling with? What do you need help with? What can I blog about to inspire you?

There’s a long list of interesting topics submitted by over 25,000 people over the last two years.

Multinational Collaboration

One returning topic is multinational or international collaboration. Here are some challenges people submitted:

Change, Leadership, Organizational culture

Transcultural Collaboration: are you Competent?

Date: 12.01.2017Author: Marcella Bremer

We were sitting in a room in a foreign country: 20 executives were waiting for the CEO to arrive. I was present to facilitate the first part of their workshop on culture after they did the OCAI culture survey. People were checking their laptops, smartphones or talking softly to their neighbor. The CEO was ten minutes late.

I checked the time with the HR manager who was my contact at the company. Should we call the CEO to remind him? No, he said, he’ll arrive shortly.

Change, Leadership, Organizational culture

12 must-reads on Organizational Culture, Leadership, and Change

Date: 22.12.2016Author: Marcella Bremer

Positive leadership, organizational culture, positive change

How has your year been? It's time to evaluate, and develop new intentions. My intention is to inspire toward positive organizations where people and performance thrive.

OCAI Online aims to contribute to positive workplaces by offering the online culture survey so people can work on their culture.

Change, Change Management, Competing Values Framework, Leadership, OCAI, Organizational culture

What is Positive Change?

Date: 8.12.2016Author: Marcella Bremer

What is positive change? What is a positive organization? Why would we bother to practice positive leadership, and create a positive culture? For some, the answer is obvious, for others not at all.

As we have seen in my blog post on positive leadership: the why is rather obvious. We want to help positive change succeed and create a positive organization because it makes people happier and more productive. The performance of a positive organization can be astounding.

Change, Leadership, Organizational culture

Change

Does your culture need courage?

Are you part of a Positive Change Circle?

A high-performance culture is a positive culture

Positive Culture Webinar

Me Too

How is your Culture Quotient?

To Ask is to learn from Cultural Differences

Multinational Collaboration

Transcultural Collaboration: are you Competent?

12 must-reads on Organizational Culture, Leadership, and Change

What is Positive Change?

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