Practices for Professionals – Sign Everything

Some find it very uncomfortable to “blow their own horn.” They shy away from the public spotlight and, instead, derive their own sense of accomplishment through simply being acknowledged for a job well done.


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Corporate Cultures – The Culture Change Penalty

StrategyDriven Corporate Cultures ArticleChanging an organization’s culture is extremely difficult. Doing so requires the alteration of the commonly held values of the entire workforce, beliefs that have been embedded in the organization’s policies and procedures and reinforced over an extended period of time; beliefs that many will hold as the company’s definition of right and wrong. Subsequently, changing a company’s culture will almost assuredly be met with significant resistance.


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Corporate Cultures – Individual Initiated, Rules and Standards Controlled Environment

The Individual Initiated, Knowledge and Skills Controlled Environment represents a culture that is moving toward greater consistency in action if not action initiation. These organizations are still largely guided by local controls and individual contributors and lack the more rigorous oversight and activity reinforcement realized in supervisory and leader led companies. Thus, these organizations gain a limited amount of increased consistency while still maintaining a high level of innovation and flexibility.


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Corporate Cultures – Supervisor Initiated, Knowledge and Skills Controlled Environment

The Supervisor Initiated, Knowledge and Skills Controlled Environment represents a somewhat centrally controlled environment. This culture set benefits from greater local control than the leader initiated organization while still maintaining a degree of oversight that enhances centralized direction setting as compared with individual initiated cultures. However, the general lack of guiding processes or standards allows a great deal of operational flexibility; limiting the degree of consistency gained by these organizations.


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Talent Management Best Practice 2 – Maintain Up-To-Date Job Descriptions

Today’s fast moving marketplace demands that companies be in an almost constant state of change in order to remain competitive. Subsequently, businesses reorganize, new roles are created, and existing positions eliminated on an almost continuous basis. Throughout these changes, it remains important to keep all organization members well aligned and focused on achieving the company’s mission goals. To do this requires ongoing retranslation of these goals to the day-to-day activities of the workforce. Often overlooked but important to maintaining alignment is the updating of job description documents.


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Additional Resource

The link between job descriptions, employee behaviors, and performance reviews is further highlighted by Garry Ridge in his book, Helping People Win at Work: A Business Philosophy Called “Don’t Mark My Paper, Help Me Get an A”. Listen as Garry shares his insights on improving workforce performance with us during his StrategyDriven Podcast interview.