Key Takeaways: Company culture is defined by behavior, not perks. It’s the atmosphere created by how your team works — what you do, how you do it and what it signals to everyone around you. Leaders have an outsized influence on culture. What you model, tolerate and reward will become the standard for your team. Moments that often are most…
Key Takeaways: Company culture is built through norms — and you see it most clearly when they’re tested. The norms a group follows will either support adaptability or reinforce resistance when change is needed. Consistency is what makes culture work. Clear norms create reliability and structure — but over time, they can also make change harder. People resist change because…
This article was originally published by Fast Company. It’s that time of year when we come up with resolutions to eat less, exercise more, and finally finish that project we’ve been putting off. But for many of us, New Year’s resolutions have become slang for the things we say we’ll do but don’t follow through on. Ironically, they’re the opposite…
In this episode of Better by Great Place To Work, Shane sits down with host Roula Amire to discuss how purpose shapes how we live, lead, and build organizations people want to join — and stay with. Drawing on research from Great Place To Work and real-world leadership experience as president of Jackson Healthcare, an organization consistently recognized by Fortune®, PEOPLE® and, of course, Great Place To Work for its purpose-driven culture — Shane shares practical insights leaders can apply right away. Listen in to learn: Why meaningful…
This article was originally published by Fast Company. A colleague recently shared an exercise he conducted with his predominantly Gen Z team. He listed every person and event named in the lyrics of Billy Joel’s 1989 hit song “We Didn’t Start the Fire.” He then asked the team to identify recognizable references—which included James Dean, Budapest, and trouble in the Suez. Few team members could do so. My colleague then told the stories behind some of the references—stories they’d never heard before. A lighthearted challenge turned into something…
In a business world obsessed with quarterly results, too many leaders still treat purpose as optional instead of essential. Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace report shows that only about one in four employees strongly agree their organization cares about their wellbeing. At the same time, long term studies on purpose-driven and stakeholder-oriented companies reveal a different reality: when businesses put…
If you care about creating a workplace where purpose feels real, not performative, this episode of Check-In with Jason Lauritsen is worth a listen. This episode is available on: Apple Spotify YouTube and the Check-In podcast website. “The essence of what we do is making sure that people all over the country, in all 50 states, when they’re in a…
This article was originally published by Fast Company. My wife’s grandmother is 100 years old. She is healthy, smart, energetic, and fun to be around. Last year at Thanksgiving, I sat at a table with her for an hour-and-a-half with my wife and her two sisters as we listened to her tell stories about her life. We were all transfixed.…