How can we develop greater cultural fitness in the year ahead? What does it mean to move beyond “culture fit” and into growing our ongoing cultural fitness?
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Jason introduces Season 7 episode 53 of the podcast, Holiday Bonus Episode: Cultural Fitness.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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“We have to keep working out in order to stay in shape and condition ourselves for the cultural fitness we’re trying to create.”
Cultural Fitness: The Key to Evolving Leadership and Organizational Health
As the holiday season approaches, it’s a perfect time to recalibrate and gear up for the new year. Jason V Barger’s Thermostat Podcast, a beacon for forward-thinking leaders, offers a special holiday bonus episode to reflect on one of the most popular and pivotal topics of the year: Cultural Fitness.
Holiday Bonus: A Cultural Fitness Recap (00:00:00 – 00:04:51)
In this episode, titled “HolidayBonusCultFit_FINAL,” Jason delves into the idea of cultural fitness as an essential practice for continuous growth and development within organizations. He steers away from the static concept of cultural fit and instead promotes a dynamic, always-evolving cultural landscape. At timestamp [00:00:20], he sets the stage for a deep dive into what it means to foster an environment where cultural fitness is practiced diligently, emphasizing that the best leaders are those who “make time to step back, breathe in good oxygen and calibrate their thermostat” [00:00:47].
Engaging Teams in a Hybrid World (00:03:20 – 00:04:32)
As we navigate the hybrid world of work, Jason underscores the importance of engaging the minds and hearts of team members both in-person and virtually. He offers guidance on how to infuse energy into meetings, conferences, and culture summits, ensuring every team member, no matter their location, is integrated into the cultural journey.
Cultural Fitness: Beyond Fit to Evolving (00:04:55 – 00:09:59)
The core of the episode [00:05:15] focuses on cultural fitness, with Jason eloquently explaining that “culture is dynamic,” always in motion and never static. He highlights that cultural dissonance arises when actions and behaviors do not align with the stated culture and emphasizes the need for continuous cultural conditioning [00:05:44].
A Year-End Message of Growth and Connection (00:17:25 – 00:19:15)
As Jason wraps up the episode, he extends an invitation for deeper engagement with the content and offers support through his platform. He also reminds us, “the future of leadership is you, it’s me, it’s us” [00:19:15], calling everyone to action to be the thermostat in their environments.
As we step into the holidays and the coming year, The Thermostat Podcast serves as a reminder of our role in shaping our organizational cultures. This episode is not only a reflection of the past year’s journey but also a clarion call to embrace the cultural fitness that will drive us forward. Through this message, leaders are encouraged to step back, think, and set the temperature for an inspired and culturally fit 2024.
Questions to Ponder
1. In what ways are you contributing to the cultural fitness of your organization?
2. How are you ensuring your actions align with the desired culture?
3. What are you doing to foster the continuous development of emerging leaders within your company?
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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.