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What is going well at work?

Date: 20.09.2018Author: Marcella Bremer
What is going well at work?

People are wired to notice what goes wrong, what could be a threat, and what is missing. It’s what saved us during our evolution, in times of danger and scarcity. Negative comments, events, mistakes, problems and threats stand out. It’s natural, and often also reinforced by our upbringing and training.

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So you think you can change the culture?

Date: 6.09.2018Author: Marcella Bremer
Change the culture

So you think you can change? If your culture needs to change or to improve the place to start is where you are: in current culture. What is the way we do things around here? Understanding the behaviors, but also deeper beliefs and values is essential before you start any change.

What is normal in your current organizational culture? The students of the Positive Culture Academy came up with a long list of examples. Do you recognize any of these situations below?

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Does your culture need courage?

Date: 12.07.2018Author: Marcella Bremer
Courage in culture

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.

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Are you part of a Positive Change Circle?

Date: 14.06.2018Author: Marcella Bremer
Positive Change Circle

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.

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A high-performance culture is a positive culture

Date: 12.04.2018Author: Marcella Bremer
A high-performance culture is a positive culture

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
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Positive Culture Webinar

Date: 8.03.2018Author: Marcella Bremer
Positive Culture Webinar

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.

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Me Too

Date: 19.10.2017Author: Marcella Bremer
#MeToo

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".

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How is your Culture Quotient?

Date: 8.02.2017Author: Marcella Bremer
How is your Culture Quotient?

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?

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To Ask is to learn from Cultural Differences

Date: 26.01.2017Author: Marcella Bremer
To Ask is to learn from Cultural Differences

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:

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Transcultural Collaboration: are you Competent?

Date: 12.01.2017Author: Marcella Bremer
Transcultural Collaboration: are you Competent?

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.

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