Are you interested in inspiring L&D initiatives and programs that will inspire a positive and enduring company culture?
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If so, there are four groups that are critical to consider, according to Gallup research. Continue reading to learn more.
1. Leadership Team
Your company’s leadership team is responsible for creating the vision for your company’s culture and enabling it to come to life, especially because they approve and provide various departments and segments within an organization with the resources needed to thrive.
So, your leadership team will need to embody a clear and consistent message regarding the company culture that they’re enabling. And because your organization’s leadership team essentially sets the tone for the entire organization, they should always lead by example if they want their proposed company culture to take effect.
It’s also important that your leadership development programs reflect the values that your leadership team wants promoted and implemented across your organization.
2. Supporting Teams
Support offered by human resources, learning and development, accounting, finance, legal, and analytics teams is important to ensuring that the vision your leadership team has for a company culture is planned out and executed.
Support teams provide the appropriate infrastructures and training needed to move a company culture forward, and they’re always working together. They work together to create programs, policies, and best practices and are continually working to measure outcomes and the effectiveness of your company’s culture.
3. Everyday Champions and Influencers
No plan or strategy for a company culture will be effectively executed and carried out on an everyday basis without regular champions and influencers. Such influential individuals should have various roles at various levels across your organization but will always work to promote and embody the company’s culture and get others excited about it, too.
You’ll want to train them to further hone their skills and how they can further promote your company’s culture, which they’re already doing on their own.
4. Management
Members of management are responsible for ensuring that your company’s culture will be implemented on an everyday basis, too. They also have the most direct effect on whether an employee adopts and appreciates a company’s culture.
However, without the other three groups’ help, they will get bogged down and won’t be able to fully implement a company’s culture. They need help from leadership, support teams, and everyday champions, too.
As you work to develop and implement your company’s culture, remember the four groups that are essential to its success.