Organizational Culture

Processes are pervasive throughout every organization, even the smallest ones. The operation of an organization relies heaving on either institutional (sometimes called tribal) knowledge of these processes and procedures or will have spent a good deal of time ensuring that the process is known and training ensures everyone uses it in the same way…

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Last week P&G’s culture cost them $16.5 BILLION over the next four years if the price target of the UBS analyst is to be believed.  According to the analyst, “Procter & Gamble’s culture has limited the company’s ability to meaningfully change how it does business…”
What’s interesting here isn’t whether P&G has the ‘right’ culture to succeed…

The National Credit Union Administration held a meeting in Chicago, Illinois recently for a new team of people and included Creating a Team Culture, a corporate team building workshop, as part of their meeting. The NCUA is the independent federal agency that regulates, charters and supervises federal credit unions…

One of the benefits of my role as Chief Relationship Officer at CEO Connection is the opportunity to have fascinating business conversations with a number of mid-market CEOs. Last week I spoke with the head of a rapidly expanding, international company who has garnered remarkable growth statistics in her industry…

L&D professionals are constantly challenged with the dynamic organizational environment. The needs and requirements of learners keep changing and with that the method of facilitating knowledge transfer needs to change accordingly. They have to make a conscious effort to develop a learning culture in the organization…

I had a great experience recently on Thompson Island in Boston, Massachusetts where Vertex Pharmaceuticals hosted a Creating a Team Culture team building workshop for one of their research and development teams. Vertex is an innovative leader in the area of drug research for several serious diseases…