Organisations can spend a lot of time and money establishing a unique culture that makes them a more effective business. Creating a culture is a complicated process. Establishing the cultural environment of your business takes more than just words to set a vibe. It requires a system to reward the behaviours that demonstrate the culture points you want to grow and utilise.
Working ON your business instead of just IN your business means you need a team that can run the business even when you aren’t there. Sound impossible? Unrealistic? Often a strong company culture is the first step towards achieving this.
When trying to build what Brad Sugars, CEO of ActionCOACH Business coaching calls a “commercial profitable enterprise that works even when you are not there”, creating a vision that leads everything and everyone in the business is critical. This vision is central to every function and every goal and a true vision doesn’t change.
To ensure that the vision is central to your business and the work underway – create value points or culture points that provide a guide to working together within the organization.
Whether you have 5, 10 or 14 points of culture, make sure that you weave the concepts into every level and in every function. Maybe discussing and finalising your culture needs to go in your 90 day plan?
For inspiration, at ActionCOACH, these are the 14 points of culture.
1: Commitment
2: Ownership
3: Integrity
4: Excellence
5: Communication
6: Success
7: Education
8: Teamwork
9: Balance
10: Fun
11: Systems
12: Consistency
13: Gratitude
14: Abundance
