How the RAS is involved in Realizing Your Vision – Part II
You are always creating your future. You bring it forth through your visions, goals, dreams thoughts, actions, feelings, beliefs and values, . You do this regardless of the level of your conscious awareness. Your present moment awareness along with the future that you deliberately create is a deeper reflection of your subconscious programming. All of…
Reticular Activating System (RAS) – Part I
Our brains are incredibly complex. We can sift through billions of bits of data at any given time and somehow we don’t short circuit, we filter and organize that information instead. The Reticular Activating System helps with that filtering and organizing. The RAS is the reason you learn a new word and then start hearing…
Bridging the Gap between Strategy and Culture
At most organizations, culture is a background asset, rolled up into HR onboarding docs and expressed as a set of values, then promptly forgotten. However, an organization’s culture is one of its most important things which can support an organization’s performance, innovation & success. Strategy offers a formal logic for the company’s goals and orientates…
Culture Trends Shaped by Covid
Where your employees work and how well they work, either remotely or together, is just the tip of the iceberg as your organization thinks through the return to work post-COVID. Trend #1: The return to delegating decision-making to the individual contributors, and refocusing communication on vision. Why is this significant? COVID caused leaders to centralize…
Coaching & Feedback linked to Culture
So now that you have deliberately created your culture by identifying your values and breaking them out as behaviours, it’s time to utilize it for feedback and coaching! The conversation around giving employees feedback is complex and has received quite a bit of attention lately. Feedback is an essential part of encouraging performance improvement, right?…
How to Build a Strong Team Culture
So here are some steps you can take to create a great business culture where employees feel valued and appreciated and quality work gets done: Develop your vision, mission and goals Businesses often have a mission, vision and goal statement that serves as their guiding principle when deciding what direction they want to take their…
Importance of Deliberately Creating Your Team Culture
More often than not, building an organization’s culture is left to identifying values. These are leveraged to create the mission, vision and pillars. From there, the next step is to add the culture content into HR documentation, which is mentioned during new employee orientation and then promptly forgotten, never to be remembered again, resulting in…
Culture. What is It?
Culture is an umbrella term which encompasses the social behavior and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups. Business culture refers to the set of behavioral and procedural norms that can be observed within a company. This includes its…