We’ve all read articles about how a company’s culture affects its productivity, health, employee satisfaction, financial success, etc. We get all excited about the prospect of having a stronger culture, higher personnel motivation, and reduced turnover, so we make a plan to achieve this goal. After a few months or even weeks, though, the excitement fades and everyone falls back into their daily routine with very little to no change having occurred. What does “company culture” really mean and why does the push to create an impactful one usually fade?
Is it a Business or a Family?
It’s Not Rocket Surgery
How many times have you had a grand plan where you were going to do something really innovative and inspiring then the plan never really went anywhere? You came up the idea, and then as soon as you started to work towards it you got overwhelmed, something seemingly more important came up, or you just weren’t sure where to begin. Grand plans don’t have to be complicated. In fact, they shouldn’t be.
What is Coaching?
Most of us have heard of coaching in various forms (life coaching, sports coaching, executive coaching, corporate coaching, etc.) but we may not really know the difference between talking to a coach versus a therapist versus a consultant versus a friend. Hopefully this article helps explain things. If you have further questions, please leave them in the comments and I’ll answer them promptly.