Change

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:

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.

But before we look at intentions, let's look back at my best liked 12 articles to date - including one "evergreen" article that received less likes because I didn't promote it on social media but that is worth reading!

Here's a list of recommended reads:

In my last post, I introduced you to the machine maintenance company MM that faced increasing competition and had to become more profitable. However, the CEO’s response was to push hard for more efficiency and focus on the numbers which led to micro-management. Combined with their current culture tendency to organize everything in a phonebook of rules and procedures, they were slowing down, and they felt stifled.

After looking at some powerful questions based on the Competing Values Framework, let’s look at this case that illustrates the crucial role of (positive) leadership. It shows how an “old-fashioned” CEO stifles an organization and how one division considers taking ownership of their change. Positive leadership started with asking different questions and giving their staff more space and trust to solve the challenges of this division…