Dysfunctional and toxic cultures often share and perpetuate 5 habits that get in the way of achieving their vision for the future and turn people off along the way. What habits do we need to stay away from?
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Jason introduces Season 7 episode 44 of the podcast, 5 Habits of Dysfunctional Cultures. Welcome back to the podcast on corporate culture and leadership and thank you for listening. We engage thought leaders like CEOs, CFOs, managers, VPs, directors, and more for this podcast. We wish to create content that engages your mind and heart and allows you to step back and think and add some positivity to your life. We deep dive into today’s topic.
We can’t control everything but what we can control is our response. Still a lot of work to do but wanted to remind the audience what is within our control is the temperature we create in the organizations and teams we work with.
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“What are the 5 habits that keep dysfunctional cultures trapped in mediocrity or even worse dysfunction and toxic cultures… do the opposite of what we talk about on today’s episode.”
Today’s podcast is about how we approach different things and the habits we form that can shape cultures around us and how we experience different situations. What we allow lingers and what we teach triggers was an episode that is worth listening to as well to prepare for this episode.
4:03 – Jason shares some insights from past episodes around great leaders and cultures and great teams that perpetuate not only great stories like we talked about on the last episode but they also perpetuate great habits.
9:50 – Here are the 5 habits that dysfunctional cultures often share and perpetuate. Do you share any of these?
- Focus on the job over the person – When people in a culture feel the job trumps over them as a human being you will find dysfunction. Jason explains more in the podcast. An example of this are the great resignation stats, in 2 years 48 million people left jobs and much of it was that people didn’t feel like they belonged or that they weren’t contributing. People are looking for more meaningful cultures.
- Focus what over how – Too much emphasis is placed on the what vs the how, what are we gonna go do? It is important but too much focus and not enough on how we are committed to showing up and how we do it that we want to create.
- 0.8 to 1 ratio – The Gottman Institute in Seattle pointed to 5:1 ratio with 5 positive interactions to every 1 negative interaction. Healthy teams catch each other doing great things and earn the right to talk about the items that need to be improved. Dysfunctional teams are more heavily weighted on what is not working at a higher rate of negative interactions than positive interactions. It can make a huge difference in relationships.
- Avoidance – Dysfunctional teams avoid the truly genuine impactful conversations discussed on this episode they really need to be having. They also avoid accountability as a two-way street. It is a two way connection between leader/manager and employee or team member, dysfunctional only see it as a one-way street. Avoidance leads to disconnection, the path gets wider and wider and leads to a disconnection.
- Talk without action – Dysfunctional cultures talk a good game but don’t have the follow-through and they walk of the room and avoid it. When leaders continuously talk about things that don’t lead to action the words become hallow.
Questions to Ponder
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What are positive habits that you are perpetuating?
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What are those dysfunctional habits that might be creeping in or allowing to linger and present an opportunity to change?
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A thermostat is proactive. It sets the temperature in a room. Controls the temperature. Regulates the temperature. But in today’s distracted, fast-paced and digital world, it’s easy for individuals and organizations to act more like thermometers, slipping into reactionary thinking, becoming scattered and inconsistent. The most compelling leaders, teams, organizations, families, or collection of humans of any kind operate in thermostat mode. They calibrate their mind and heart to set the temperature for the vision and culture they want to create. Jason Barger, globally celebrated author, keynote speaker, and founder of Step Back Leadership Consulting, is the host of The Thermostat, a podcast journey to discover authentic leadership, create compelling cultures and find clarity of mission, vision, and values.