Company Culture: It’s Not Free Meals and Game Rooms
I’ve attended a great conference for the past two years by the Academy of Culture Ambassadors. I think the name of the organization is misleading, and frankly I feel lucky to have stumbled across them at all. They are a loose-knit group of like-minded professionals who believe that people are at the heart of every organization.
During the 2019 conference in September, I was introduced to a fledgling organization called the Global Company Culture Association. (As you know, my work often goes hand in hand with corporate culture and “how things are done here”.) While I haven’t seen much from them so far, they did send a solid newsletter this week, and I wanted to share a couple of articles they linked to. If you like the articles, you might want to check out the association.
The business case for defining and measuring your company’s culture:
Thoughts on where you may want to focus your energy around your company’s culture: