Connecting Through Culture: Spotlight on the Chief Strategy Officer of Workforce and Labor (Note: This continues our series of blogs highlighting individual functions in an organization. This blog showcases the insights of Dr. Jessica Kriegel, Chief Strategy Officer...
How leaders define culture in the workplace is important. It determines how much culture can contribute to organizational results. The more limited the view, the less potential impact it will have. In my capacity as Chief Strategy Officer of Workforce and Labor at...
What does it take for a global provider of safety and specialty services to sustain its market-leading position? At APi Group, it’s a commitment to Building Great Leaders® with the goal of developing everyone as a leader. To lead effectively, employees...
How often have you found yourself struggling to make a business-critical decision? In an Oracle survey, a staggering 85% of business leaders said they have suffered from decision distress—regretting, feeling guilty about, or questioning a decision they made in the...
Foster self-accountability across your organization to propel better individual and team-wide results.
Even as more employees believe their culture will be better in the future, it’s come to a standstill for 40% of them. Those are among the key findings in our latest State of the Culture report, where we also uncovered considerable gaps in business acumen and financial...
Jessica Kriegel, our chief scientist of workplace culture, recently held an online coffee chat to discuss change management approaches, their downsides, and a better way to tackle change. Here are the highlights. Many business leaders look at change management as...
The Results Pyramid® is a model of human behavior leaders use to make culture change happen effectively, accurately, and efficiently in an organization or team.
Diversity and inclusion in the workplace provide a competitive advantage. But knowing that you need both in your workforce is not the same as managing them.
Fostering ownership in the workplace leads to greater employee engagement. Creating a culture of accountability is the first step to getting there.
Undertaking change is often a cause for both excitement and trepidation. In her Culture Leaders podcast series, our Dr. Jessica Kriegel talked to Change Management Strategist and Wharton Lecturer Greg Satell about a variety of issues related to large-scale change....
(Note: When you witness how you can improve results by unleashing the power of culture, it stays with you. And often it provides a compelling reason for people who once were clients of Culture Partners to come on board as one of us. This blog series shares what they...
(Note: This continues our series of blogs highlighting individual functions in an organization and how their operations within workplace culture can either promote or hinder the achievement of desired outcomes. This blog showcases the insights of Culture Partners’...
(Note: When you witness how you can improve results by unleashing the power of culture, it stays with you. And often it provides a compelling reason for people who once were clients of Culture Partners to come on board as one of us. This blog series shares what they...
(Note: This continues our series of blogs highlighting individual functions in an organization and how their operations within workplace culture can either promote or hinder the achievement of desired outcomes. This blog showcases the insights of Culture Partners...
(Note: When you witness how you can improve results by unleashing the power of culture, it stays with you. And often it provides a compelling reason for people who once were clients of Culture Partners to come on board as one of us. This blogs series shares what they...
(Note: This continues our series of blogs highlighting individual functions in an organization and how their operations within workplace culture can either promote or hinder the achievement of desired outcomes. This blog showcases the insights of Culture Partners CFO,...
(Note: When you witness how you can improve results by unleashing the power of culture, it stays with you. And often it provides a compelling reason for people who once were clients of Culture Partners to come on board as one of us. This blog series shares what they...
Effective business leaders boost employee engagement by setting fewer organizational goals and focusing on the key result.
(Note: This is the first in a series of blogs highlighting individual functions in an organization and how their operations within workplace culture can either promote or hinder the achievement of desired outcomes. This blog showcases the insights of Karol Pelletier,...
Implementing the power of The Oz Principle in today’s organizations.
When a result isn’t achieved, that’s when most of us start hearing words like “responsibility” and “accountability.” While responsibility is appreciated and often used correctly, accountability continues to be misperceived and gets a bad rap—we’re here to tell you why it shouldn’t.
Ensuring Cultural and Operational Alignment in AI Strategies Most researchers agree that AI technology will be able to outperform humans in a variety of tasks within the next 10 years. This forecast puts increasing pressure on CIOs to identify how and where it makes...
A meaningful way to build trust and connection in the workplace.
Are negative views of the economy eroding confidence in all organizations’ ability to meet their goals? And are they exerting a stronger influence on certain roles? Learn what’s happening in our 2024 Q2 State of Culture Report.
Lack of accountability in the workplace often stems from ineffective leadership practices and mindsets. Watch for these warning signs before confusion and dysfunction threaten your company’s culture—and results.
Business acumen doesn’t get as much attention as it deserves from researchers, but compelling statistics point to why it should: 90% of Leadership & Development (L&D) leaders believe there is a need for business acumen in their organizations. 65% of leaders...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2rOLe3Il-k We are proud to announce that our Chief Scientist of Workplace Culture, Dr. Jessica Kriegel's TEDx talk, "How to Get People to Give a Sh*t," is now live. In this presentation, Dr. Jessica delves into a crucial aspect of...
You have a good product or service. You have a good strategy. So why aren’t you succeeding? You’re likely missing the critical puzzle piece: culture.
By John Frehse, Senior Managing Director, Labor Strategy at Ankura and Dr. Jessica Kriegel, Chief Scientist of Workplace Culture at Culture Partners As we head into 2024, fears of a recession loom large for individuals and corporations alike and understanding what it...
Once you learn to constantly ask “What else can I/we do to achieve the desired result?”, you open doors to new solutions and breakthrough performance.
Managing people for the first time can be daunting. Here are the five essential leadership skills every first-time manager should master to set the tone for your new team.
Are organizations more confident in their ability to meet goals, and what areas of culture could use tweaking to help boost results? Find out in our Q1 State of Culture report.
These four companies are using feedback-centered culture to drive employee engagement, satisfaction, and productivity.
We conducted research in concert with Stanford University in H1 of 2023, studying 243 organizations in the process. We divided culture into eight attributes, then analyzed the long-term financial implications of each attribute across the 243 companies. Our results...
Zodiak®: The Game of Business Finance and Strategy is a fast-paced, classroom-based simulation designed to improve the business acumen and financial literacy of anyone whose daily decisions impact the overall health of your organization. You can learn more about it on...
We offer two primary workshops to clients. Workshops are smaller engagements (one to 1.5 days) that focus on key topics of culture, prioritization, and change management -- but do so in a compact way that both creates immediate action and gets you some exposure to how...
From January to March 2023, we surveyed professionals of all levels (n=150) across multiple industries about their cultures, their confidence in those cultures, and general organizational success. The questions about culture were open-ended, but we coded responses and...
Executives often understand the inherent power of culture, but don't understand how it links to financial returns -- which is often, logically, how they are judged. We put together a quick one-pager to show you some of the connections between a strong culture and...
This originally appeared on Jessica Kriegel's LinkedIn newsletter. Subscribe to that, if you'd like! I had the pleasure of working with a client this week in Nashville with some of my tremendous colleagues -- Ron Paul, Ph.D., Joe Kozub, and John Henry Scott III:...
This post originally appeared as part of Jessica Kriegel's LinkedIn newsletter. Feel free to subscribe to that, if you'd like! Every week, one or more of my colleagues at CULTURE PARTNERS is at a company somewhere, engaging with senior leaders on how to...
This article originally appeared on Jessica Kriegel's LinkedIn. Most Americans began truly reckoning with COVID around mid-March 2020; some are still grappling with COVID and all its various effects. There have been a many theories tossed around about COVID's ultimate...
This post originally appeared on LinkedIn as a Jessica Kriegel newsletter edition. To subscribe to her newsletter, go here. Working on finishing up significant research on #culture based on work we did with 240+ organizations. We found that the best type of culture...
At a client engagement in May 2023, two of our consultants opened a session by getting members of a Mississippi-based organization to sing Whitney Houston's "The Greatest Love of All" as a tie to their desired end-state culture, purpose, and mission. It's fun to...
This is undoubtedly a complicated topic, and thousands of teams around the world struggle with accountability and autonomy. As HBR has noted, the lack of accountability is rarely intentional, meaning managers and executives do have the best intentions. (We've seen...
This post originally appeared on Jessica Kriegel’s LinkedIn. To subscribe to her every-Friday newsletter, also on LinkedIn, go right here. I had the privilege of being mentioned in a BBC WorkLife article about humane layoffs a few weeks ago. You might see the words...
This post originally appeared on Jessica Kriegel’s LinkedIn. To subscribe to her every-Friday newsletter, also on LinkedIn, go right here. We’ve been trying – sometimes in a performative way – to get diversity right within organizations for literal decades now. We’ve...
This post originally appeared on Jessica Kriegel’s LinkedIn. To subscribe to her every-Friday newsletter, also on LinkedIn, go right here. I came across this article from TIME recently: "It's Harder Than Ever To Care About Anything." It's similar in some ways to...
This post originally appeared on Jessica Kriegel’s LinkedIn. To subscribe to her every-Friday newsletter, also on LinkedIn, go right here. I come across significant amounts of content on management styles, culture, psychology and human flourishing. I get to see, and...
This post originally appeared on Jessica Kriegel’s LinkedIn. To subscribe to her every-Friday newsletter, also on LinkedIn, go right here. We've talked a lot about burnout in the last five years, and that's a very important narrative about present work and where work...