Every Team Has a Culture

A team’s culture determines its results; however, the results a team wants to achieve should always determine its culture. Culture depends on results and results depend on culture. You can build a team culture around any set of desired results: customer satisfaction, sales growth, product innovation, technological excellence, ease of order fulfillment, best-in-class quality, talent development, exceptional analysis, and timely reporting, just to name a few. Once the target results are clear, you should move quickly to create a culture that produces the necessary experiences, beliefs, and actions to achieve those results.

So ask yourself this question: Is our team’s culture working for or against us? In other words, is our team’s culture facilitating or hindering our ability to achieve our team’s desired results? Answer the following questions to find out:

Regardless of whether your team’s culture came about as a result of methodical effort or muddled default, if you answered “Yes” to three or more of the above questions, you need to begin shifting the way your team members think and act now, rather than later. Changing your team’s culture is not an option—it’s an imperative.

For more information about creating a team culture that facilitates rather than hinders your ability to achieve your desired results, we invite you to join the Accountability Community by visiting www.partnersinleadership.com, where you can review actual client case studies.

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