Crushin' Company Culture

18 - All About Culture Teams

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This episode gets into Todd's thinking about one of his favorite tools to improve organizational cultures, Culture Teams. Full of helpful perspectives for organizations of all shapes, sizes, and aims. Enjoy!


Recorded 5/31/24, includes:

  • Getting a haircut is the one thing Aaron doesn’t overthink
  • What’s the one thing you want to be sure to do this summer?
  • It’s all the little things
  • Connected to my momentum
  • The new book Aaron is working on about Commerce Theory
  • Trying to get through May…
  • The program Todd is working on for businesses about “Culture Teams”
  • Why C-suite executives are nervous about Culture Teams and losing control
  • The power of Culture Teams for employees throughout the organization
  • Why Todd believes in Culture Teams
  • Mindset work for individuals vs. impact on the greater workplace
  • “Culture is mindset”
  • Culture Teams are a product Todd can offer to organizations
  • Culture Teams can make a difference for talent attraction and retention, and preventing the “Sunday scaries 😱”
  • Why culture is like a garden
  • “So friggin’ intangible!”  How do you measure the improvement of a culture?
  • Transactional vs. transformational
  • It seems like only the good leaders take courses on improvement
  • You can never be too good at communicating, and you can always find more places where communication is happening
  • “Their brains are smoking!”
  • What Todd and Aaron see when they go into a new organization
  • Why C-suite leaders sometimes fear bringing in Culture Teams and why the fear is unfounded
  • The importance of representation and inclusivity in Culture Teams
  • Putting together a congress
  • Why the Central Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra always has a member of the orchestra on the board and Family Health Centers has at least 51% clients on their board
  • How Culture Team meetings work and liaison with the Executive Team
  • Calling into question traditional notions of hierarchy - titles are less important for some people
  • What is driving these cultural shifts and the influence of younger generations on the workplace
  • Speculating about the tension between hierarchy and democratic organization through history
  • You still need people in the C-suite, but must balance it with the input of the Culture Team
  • Todd’s work experience wish
  • What Todd would do on the first day as CEO, and what his office would look like
  • Why it’s important to know how team members are feeling as functioning as people
  • For some people the workplace is a haven
  • Why Todd and Aaron are both (unlicensed) therapists
  • The power of listening and caring enough to ask
  • “I noticed she was off” - Todd’s superpower for sensing interpersonal and group dynamics
  • Aaron’s sensitivity and instinct for listening to people and ability for asking very insightful questions
  • Why do C-suite executives spend so much time in their offices, away from the team?
  • We don’t do enough training in leadership
  • Priorities and 4,000 handwritten birthday cards
  • Is Todd the “CEO whisperer?”  He’s on a mission to revolutionize company culture
  • Culture is EVERYBODY’s responsibility, but it must be part of your strategic plan
  • Culture often gets dumped on the HR person


    • PLUS...

    • One of Aaron’s other content conversation partners
    • Feeling a whole lot better 😌
    • On the next episode of Crushin’ Company Culture!


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