Hiring, retaining and developing an engaged culture is not just about cultural fit. The best places are expanding beyond fit and contribution to focus on the overall cultural fitness of their organization.
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Jason introduces Season 7 episode 33 of the podcast, Cultural Fitness (not just fit). 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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“This is a massive opportunity that culture can become your greatest competitive advantage… cultural fit, the idea of recruiting talent, whose value systems, beliefs, and everyday behaviors align with the hiring organization.”
7:30 – Every person inside creates the culture, Jason talks about cultural dissonance and issues pop up but being able to identify is most important to get on track. Gallop’s research tells us that 51% of current employees are actively looking for a new job or actively watching for job opportunities.
9:00 – When so many employees are not happy or content we need to think about what we are building and creating. This is a massive opportunity that culture can become your greatest competitive advantage. People want more meaningful work and if you create that you become a more attractive place for people.
10:00 – Jason discusses cultural fit, the idea of recruiting talent, whose value systems, beliefs, and everyday behaviors align with the hiring organization. When the idea is focused on keeping the culture intact, it is missing that important aspect of culture shaping that is, culture is dynamic. The aim is not to keep them intact but to allow them to grow and to shape them into the future. Many organizations are thinking about what this means in the post-pandemic world. This includes hiring work-from-home employees which was a major shift recently. Do your employees help make contributions that will help your culture evolve in an authentic and positive direction?
12:30 – Jason goes even further because FIT and ADD are beginnings but not adding enough. What is your plan for the cultural fitness of the organization? What is our ongoing strategy for the team to continuously work on its cultural fitness? Jason tells a story of a recent culture summit that Jason was involved with in Austin, Texas with Burgess and Niple. They shared the question from Simon Sinek, “When are you actually in shape?” For people who are actively working out and being fit, it is hard to point out on a timeline when it happened. It isn’t something that just happens either, it is a process. This relates to company culture and how quickly you can lose the gains you once had if you don’t keep it up and keep being “cultural fit”. If you win a big award you can’t just check the box and say, “ok we did culture”. Culture is dynamic, we have to keep working out in order to stay in shape and the same relates to companies and organizations.
Questions to Ponder
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As it relates to onboarding, once hired, how do you view the process to begin to help new employees not just know the culture but to help the culture develop?
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At the local team level, what are you specifically doing to breathe oxygen into your leadership team to help their cultural fitness?
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For emerging leaders, what are you doing to help identify work on their culture fitness for the future of the organization?
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For the full company level, what are you intentionally doing to help people work out?
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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.