Many have the misconception that workplace cultures cannot be changed. While it cannot be magically revamped overnight, there are steps that one can take to manage and shape culture. Here are some books that you can check out to take charge of that change.
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Change the Culture, Change the Game: The Breakthrough Strategy for Energizing Your Organization and Creating Accountability for Results
by Rodger Connors, Tom Smith
Organisational culture is a strategic advantage that firms cannot afford to ignore. The book dishes out blueprints on how leaders can accomplish top notch results by quickly and effectively shaping their culture to tap on its people as assets. The authors also wrote about employee accountability in The Oz Principle and How Did That Happen?
Crucial Conversations – Tools for Talk When Stakes are High
by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, and Stephen R. Covey
One sign of a good company culture is when employees feel safe and at ease to open up about traditionally uncomfortable issues. This book focuses on skills needed to keep your head cool, listen actively, and diffuse high tensions in conversations, just to list a few. By working on becoming a better employee through communicating better, you can contribute towards a non-toxic working environment.
Culture That Rocks; How to Revolutionize Your Company’s Culture
by Jim Knight
Knight recognises that the workforce today is entirely different from a decade ago, and suggests ways to keep up. Encouraging open communication, enhancing internal documents, and hiring the right candidate are just some topics that will be discussed. The book aims to revolutionise a company culture from inside out.
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
by Tony Hsieh
Authored by Zappos’ CEO, Delivering Happiness is filled with business and life lessons centered on the building of a positive work culture to stimulate growth. The book intelligently points out the secrets to retaining talents by helping them to grow not just professionally, but also personally.
Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture, Third Edition: Based on the Competing Values Framework
by Kim S. Cameron
Cameron lists validated instruments that play a part in understanding, diagnosing, and changing organisational culture. With a strong focus on workplace efficiency, the book presents a systematic strategy and methodology for changing culture. While it can be a dry read, the competing values framework is definitely something that is helpful in guiding thought.
How Google Works
by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg
Written by Schmidt, the former Executive Chairman of Alphabet Inc. and the former CEO of Google, as well as Rosenberg, the Advisor to Alphabet Inc. and former SVP of Products at Google, this book is a definite must-read if you are looking to scale your SME into a household brand.
How Google Works reveals how the management think, and encourages the reader to not assume. The book provides tangible examples of relatable instances in which culture guided the company in tough times. Building a creative and free-thinking company culture has allowed Google to be a powerhouse for innovation.
Mastering Civility: A Manifesto for the Workplace
by Christine Porath
Mastering Civility explores how each and every employee can influence others and be effective through simple acts of civility. Backed by research in various industries, organisations, pop culture and neuroscience, the content is a surprising breeze to read. If you are looking at ways to up productivity levels and stakeholder relationships, this book is the one to grab.
The Culture Blueprint
By Robert Richman
Richman elaborates on the systematic roadmap to crafting a good workplace culture that satisfies employees. Means of establishing and maintaining strong engagement, as well as promoting a sense of ownership are just some of the topics discussed in the culture toolkit.
The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
by Daniel Coyle
If you learn better through case studies, this book is the one to pick. Coyle presents stories to illustrate how to enable good cultural chemistry while avoiding pitfalls. He lays out advice with on-the-ground insights from renowned leaders and science to help reform a toxic culture.
If you want to read about the secrets of highly successful groups, check out The Talent Code by the same author.
The Culture Engine: A Framework for Driving Results, Inspiring Your Employees, and Transforming Your Workplace
by S. Chris Edmonds
Edmonds guides the reader through practical steps on how to first define the corporate culture, delineate behaviours that lead to performance and engagement, and draft a document that codifies such behaviours into guiding principles to steer behaviour.
As culture can be inspired and exemplified by leadership, this book also teaches you who to reach out to in the planning process to engage employees holistically.
Workplace culture has the ability to transform a company’s performance and actualise its potential. Thankfully, creating one is not difficult. With the help of business loans through P2P lending, you can even explore more innovative ways to spruce up your workplace culture.
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