Shaping Culture

Free lunches, dressing in jeans and ping pong tables will get you only so far. In this episode of Shaping Culture podcast, David Brear, CEO at 11:FS, a worldwide company creating digital financial services for banks, pinpoints how to transform company culture, if you’re willing to do four things.

“Culture is only really important if you’re willing to prepare to hire, fire, train and reward on it….you’re showing to your team the importance of the things that you think disproportionately make you as an organization successful," says Brear.

Companies have had no choice but to move faster during the coronavirus. In this episode of Shaping Culture podcast, Jill Smart, President of the National Academy of Human Resources talks about the elevated role of HR during this crisis. “I think repetitive communications is fundamental. People need a lot of reassurance now and a lot of duplicative messages that shows the consistency and the transparency can really go a long way to really deepen the culture and deepen the employees engagement and sense of belonging.”

What do mirrors and windows have to do with having a diverse workforce? In this episode of the Shaping Culture podcast, we explore the challenges and solutions to diversity and inclusion with Ralph de Chabert, Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity and Global Community Relations Officer for Brown-Forman, a global beverage alcohol company.

The coronavirus has companies asking: what are the best ways to manage a remote workforce? In this episode, Sheridan Orr, Chief Marketing Officer for Built In, points to the importance of strong company cultures, regardless of where the employees are working. “You have a lot of companies who say they care about their employees and they care about their customers and how they’re responding to the coronavirus actually is where the rubber meets the road."