Culture Quiz
Article | Accountability Insights
Your team, organization, division and company all have a culture that is working 24/7. That culture is telling people what is important; what they should pay attention to and what they should or should not do. That culture is always working: never takes a holiday, never goes on break, never calls in sick. The important question that leaders must ask themselves is simply this:
Is our culture working for us or against us?
Is it helping or is it hindering our ability to achieve results?
The following yes/no questions will help you find out if your culture is an issue:
| 1. | Are you delivering the results you promised? | |
| 2. | Are you hitting your deadlines and staying on schedule? | |
| 3. | Are people investing their hearts and minds and truly engaging in helping your team or organization succeed? | |
| 4. | Are customers happy, both those external, as well as internal to the organization? | |
| 5. | Are you meeting budget? | |
| 6. | Are you seeing inventiveness in people throughout the organization? Do they regularly make things better on their own initiative? | |
| 7. | Are people feeling that they can be highly successful in delivering on what they are accountable to do? |
Regardless of whether your organization’s culture came about as a result of methodical effort or muddled default, if you answered “no” to any of the above questions, then culture is an issue. If you answered “no” to three or more, then you probably have a pressing and urgent need to begin shifting the way your people think and act, now, not later. Managing your organization’s culture is not an option, it’s an imperative.
An organization’s culture produces its results. Consider Alaris Medical Systems and the truly game-changing transformation in results that occurred. We highlight this story in our newest NY Times Bestselling leadership book, Change the Culture, Change the Game: The Breakthrough Strategy for Energizing Your Organization and Creating Accountability for Results. After 30 consecutive months of losses, CEO Dave Schlotterbeck and his team implemented the culture change process we describe in our book. The results were phenomenal. The stock price soared from .31/share to $22.35/share, growing at 5 times the market rate. Watch CEO Dave Schlotterbeck talk about his experience with culture change at Alaris. Click here to watch Dave’s video.
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