Culture for Flourishing People

Team Culture Vultures

We want to create an organisational culture where people can flourish. We’ve identified 8 main categories to examine and improve the work environment. For each of them, we identified a couple of resources that you may find useful.

Categories

Vision:

We need a common shared purpose, so that we are engaged in our work.

Empowerment:

We are empowered and have autonomy, so that we are engaged in our work and feel we are contributing to our purpose.

Leadership:

We have a leadership that listens to our ideas and supports our autonomy, so that we feel we are an integral part of our organisation.

Happiness:

We care about people’s happiness and motivation in our workplace, so that they are energized to do their best and reach amazing performance.

Values:

We have a shared set of values, so that we know what to expect from each other to support effective collaboration.

Experiments:

We are free to experiment and learn from our failures, so that we can come up with the best ideas and solutions, and express our creativity.

Feedback:

We have the courage to provide clear and constructive feedback that motivates others to improve.

Org. Structure:

We are structured in cross-functional teams, so that we can deliver work independently. We are also long-lived teams so that we have time to gel and get to high performance.

Anti-Patterns

There were also some anti-patterns.

• Toxic Behaviours
• Command and Control
• Broken Promises
• Working in Silos

LINKS

• Resources
• Tools
• Cultural story telling
• Real-life culture experiences
• Photos