How to know if your company's culture is broken

Culture is essential to a company's success, here are the core traits that a broken culture has, (1) being constantly busy and enabling it to be an excuse (2) lack of (3) full of broken promises (4) poor decision making and decision makers (5) management failures, bad managers are bad managers and aren't leading (6) confusion over chaos.

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1. How To Know If Your
   Company’s Culture Is
   Broken
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2. Culture is more than a buzzword or an afterthought.
   Culture is the glue of your organisation, culture leads
   decision making, leads the actions your teams take
   and typically silently drives company performance.
   Culture are the actions you take.
   Culture is the living relationships around a set of
   important goals.
   Culture is the subcultures you enable in your
   workplace.
   Focus is on a mission to fix the broken world of work
   

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3. 3
   Keep A Running Total, This Will
   Help You To Know How Bad
   Your Culture Is
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4. Here Are The
   Signs
   

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   Unproductive meetings
   Busy As Default!
   Book another meeting to make a simple decision
   Back to back meetings
   

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6. Lack Of…
   Lack of praise
   Lack of clear communication
   Lack of shared ownership
   Lack of learning and co-learning
   Lack of flexibility
   

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   Broken Promises
   No trust in HR, People or Management Team
   We promise to change x (and doesn’t happen)
   Cliques across the business
   If it’s easy - we won’t do it
   Dismissing ideas without hearing them out
   

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8. Decision Making…
   Communities to make decisions
   Rely on the hierarchy for decision making
   Constant brushing decisions under the carpet
   Leavers not being able to tell their team they are leaving the business
   

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   Management
   Unhealthy competition between managers
   I am a manager - at my level I don’t do that
   Managers feeling helpless they cannot help change
   Management team out of the loop of what is really happening
   Dismissing challenges
   Demanding an “always on” attitude
   

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10. Encouraged aka forced
    Forced fun
    Created events for forced fun
    To stay late just to be seen as being present
    

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    Confusion Then Chaos
    Confusion of what you are doing and why you are doing it
    Tolerating bad behaviours
    When an obstacle feels like a roadblock or a showstopper
    Unexplained staff turn over
    That’s not my job
    Handoffs and dumping on great heights on each other
    

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    Kept Score?
    If you are experiencing over 7 different bad
    culture traits you are likely experiencing a bad
    culture but can be fixed, trust is key here.
    A Real Concern: If it is 15 you are likely
    experiencing a broken culture, if trust and
    management are key parts of your answers,
    consider tackling head on.
    If you are experiencing more than 20+, it is
    most likely a toxic culture. You definitely need
    external company wide help.
    

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    How To Address These?
    • Speak to your HR team, highlight these traits and
    when you & team-mates have experienced them.
    • If comfortable, speak directly to your manager
    and call out bad behaviours & instance of these
    behaviours.
    • If you are uncomfortable with either steps, there
    are two options
    1/ Unfortunately it is likely time to look for a new
    role or
    2/ Ask Focus to contact your business
    completely anonymously with examples of issues
    & we will recommend ways to address these.
    

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    +Get In Touch To Improve Your Culture
    The world of work has lost its focus!
    Focus was created to cut through the noise, cut through confusion and
    ensure businesses focus on developing their organisations performance.
    FOUNDER - DANNY DENHARD
    E: DANNY@FOCUS.BUSINESS
    W: WWW.FOCUS.BUSINESS/
    

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