Reviewed by Rama Gaind.
By Colin D. Ellis, Major Street Publishing, $29.95.
For Ellis — a culture change expert, an award-winning author and international speaker — being a role model is crucially important.
Culture starts and ends with senior leaders who must always display the behaviours that they expect of everybody. “They should demonstrate what they expect of others and help other senior leaders build the kind of teams they need to be successful.”
Providing 26 ideas to transform the way you work, Colin says the COVID-19 pandemic has made the importance of culture more visible.
“What we saw during the pandemic was behaviours which stood in the way of getting things done had to be overcome and all of a sudden, organisations found it easier to do cultural initiatives that they weren’t able to do before. Things like flexible working, addressing poor behaviour, poor performance, and making collaboration more deliberate.”
“The organisations that thrived were those ones which quickly relaid the foundations for success. They redefined what was required in order to continue to be successful whilst everybody wasn’t in the same space.”
Forward-thinking companies recognised that the pandemic sparked an acceleration of workplace trends and to keep up, they needed to stay one-step ahead. They knew that rather than scaling back, doubling down on culture initiatives was going to be key to ensuring remote work would be successful long-term.”
As we now live in a world of lockdowns and virtual work environments, keeping employees engaged has never been more important. The last year has been tough on workers – and the future isn’t looking certain just yet. As businesses begin to map out what the future of work looks like, maintaining workplace culture is going to be high on the priority list
Culture change isn’t hard, and with specific steps to reinvigorate workplace culture, this book is filled with simple, actionable ideas that over time can transform the way work gets done.
