Culture Bites

We often talk about the Circumplex, and how we use it measure thinking and behaviour – It isn’t about good, bad, right or wrong; but it is about effectiveness, whether it’s at an individual, teams or organisational level.

On this week’s episode of Culture Bites, Dominic Gourley and Liana Sangster discuss effectiveness and what we really mean when we talk about it.

Leaders and managers have a significant impact on those around them and on the culture and performance of their organisation. Their development is critical to employee engagement and organisational performance.

So what can you expect by doing your own Leadership/Impact® (L/I) or Management/Impact™ (M/I)?

Dominic Gourley and Liana Sangster discuss the L/I and M/I diagnostic: What it is, how it works and what you can expect by receiving your own results.

In last week’s episode of Culture Bites, Dominic Gourley and Liana Sangster touched on the Triple A Model – Awareness, Acceptance, Action; and how people move through the different stages, as part of framing up an LSI debrief.

You might find some people want to skip the acceptance stage and move straight into action planning, only accepting on surface level. Dominic and Liana explore the model further and give you some tips to moving people between the stages, particularly helping people move from Awareness to Acceptance.

Everyone will have their own approach to a debriefing the Life Styles Inventory™ (LSI), but there are some key elements you should discuss prior to debriefing the report.

Consultants Dominic Gourley and Liana Sangster answer a question from a listener about how you frame up an LSI debrief; How do you come into the session and set the scene before going through the report, and what are the key elements to discuss.

Mental health is a big topic right now, with lots of articles in the media and the current situation taking a toll on people’s mental health potentially due to added stress financially and a huge change in our lifestyles.

Dominic Gourley and Sam Mead take this opportunity to talk specifically about men’s mental health and that the more we talk about it, the more it's accepted into society; How it’s also ok not to be ok, and it’s ok to ask for help.

This week on Culture Bites, Corinne Canter and Dominic Gourley answer a letter from a listener.

“Our organisation has a very passive/defensive culture and a recent staff survey demonstrated an alarming absence of trust, some key themes include a feeling that decisions aren’t transparent or fair, people wanting to maintain the status quo and not rock the boat, people feeling scared to ask for help, leaders being afraid to give honest feedback and a disconnect between a leaders words and actions. How would you suggest the organisation starts to build trust?”

At our Culture and Leadership Conference this year, one of the topics we covered was the Future of Work, which started a lot of conversations and thoughts around the subject. Dominic Gourley and fellow consultant Sam Mead talk about past predictions of what the future of work would look like and now that we’ve been forced into it due to COVID-19 what the differences are – the future of work has arrived.

Michael Bungay Stanier talks about his new book: 'The Advice Trap - Be Humble, Stay Curious, & Change the Way You Lead Forever'

Michael is the founder of Box of Crayons, which is a learning and development company with over 17 years experience creating and delivering practical learning experiences that unleash the power of curiosity to create connected and engaged company cultures.

Learn more about Box of Crayons - https://boxofcrayons.com/

At the heart of Phocas is a commitment to their values - to make life ‘fun, fulfilling and forever’ for Phocas customers, employees and investors.

CEO & Co-founder Myles Glashier and Chief People Officer, Karen Hailwood recently shared the Phocas story of transformation at this year’s Asia-Pacific Culture and Leadership Conference. On this Culture Bites episode, they talk more about their journey.

Following on for their presentation at this year’s Virtual Asia-Pacific Conference, we take a deep dive into Sandoz’s culture transformation with Guy Strong, Country Head Australia & New Zealand and Head of People & Culture Asia, Clarette Crame; as they tell the story of how they turned Sandoz around…with incredible results!

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