Four Ways to Create Healthy Culture to Grow Your Organization

Have you ever gotten the sense that you just don’t like the way things feel in your organization? You have a great team, worked hard on crafting a mission statement, recruited excellent team members, have really clear systems, and you’re implementing a well thought out strategy, but still something just doesn’t feel right? When you’re in a meeting, a gathering, an event, it’s nothing you can point to specifically but something just feels off.

You could have a culture problem.

Why Culture?

Many influential leaders consistently talk about the importance of culture when leading a team or organization. It’s been said that an organization is built around people, systems, and culture – and if the organization isn’t healthy and growing, there is a disconnect somewhere in those three areas.

• People is about recruiting, developing, empowering, and placing the right people in the organization.
• Systems are about the structures and processes in place to support, grow, and deliver the vision of the organization.
• Culture is the overall feel, mood, norms, and environment of the organization.

I believe that though all are important and contribute to the success of the organization, culture trumps them all.

Your organization has a culture. Your job has a culture. Your team has a culture. Your home has a culture. Your culture is either working for you or against you. You can have culture either by decision or default.

And when it comes to culture there’s good news and bad news.

First the bad news.

The wrong culture can take years to change.

Now the good news.

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