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Company culture<\/strong> change has been a hot topic for some time now; even establishing a\u00a0precise definition of exactly what company culture is has kept researchers and academics busy for\u00a0years. About the only thing everyone does agree on is that successful culture change\u00a0has proved hard to do.<\/p>\n

Numerous companies have attempted to \u2018improve\u2019\u00a0their culture by embarking on ambitious programmes, only to find themselves\u00a0debating why their efforts aren\u2019t going to plan a few months or years later.\u00a0According to data from Deloitte\u2019s Human Capital Trends 2015 global survey<\/a>, only\u00a012 per cent of respondents believe their companies excel at driving the desired company culture.<\/p>\n

Why? Well partly because you can\u2019t just pick up a culture and try to glue it on top of what\u00a0you already have. Culture change is not some kind of organisational facelift where\u00a0you try to smooth out the wrinkles. It may make the surface look good but its\u00a0effects will be artificial and temporary at best. Culture is a true reflection of the health, and personality, of a company.\u00a0Cultures are organic entities that evolve as a consequence of the way a company\u00a0operates, and that puts leaders in the spotlight.<\/p>\n

Leaders have often set a culture in a certain direction without even knowing the consequence of their actions, or worse still knowing the consequence of their actions. Both scenarios being contributing factors in why culture change has become so important in today’s workplace. So how do you change a culture for the better? Well\u00a0don\u2019t expect to achieve it<\/a> by simply\u00a0emailing your employees and telling them this is what they now \u2018need to do\u2019.<\/p>\n

Healthy corporate cultures have almost always been built upon trusted leaders who make sure the company invests time and energy into promoting employee ownership, and \u00a0by noticing what employees\u00a0are saying, feeling and doing. Historically there have been many ways for managers to highlight employees, or the company to notice an employee or team, however very few mechanics existed where employees could notice each other.<\/p>\n

This is why employee recognition is so significant to company culture change<\/h3>\n

This is why adopting social employee recognition<\/a> has such an impact\u00a0when it comes to shaping cultures for the better. Social recognition platforms are proving to be a win win for employees, and this is driving high adoption. The ongoing intrinsic motivation from giving recognition is changing the way we perceive employee motivation, what you “get” is being balanced by what you “give”. The emotional and professional satisfaction from giving, be it kind words or small rewards, is an extremely popular employee activity.<\/p>\n

This high adoption is key, social recognition gives companies a way to connect employees through a two-way communication that is mutually beneficial, no big communication plan or prescriptive manager “drum beating” required. Social recognition also gives companies ongoing insights\u00a0into what is making people feel engaged (or not) \u2013 something companies have\u00a0traditionally been poor at doing according to Deloitte. It allows\u00a0organisations to accurately understand the employee mood<\/a>, good or otherwise,\u00a0and not just on a snapshot basis.<\/p>\n

Encouraging peers to recognise and if merited reward each other\u2019s contributions\u00a0rather than just receive an occasional pat on the back from a manager, means employees are now demonstrating “how we do things round here\u2019.<\/p>\n

My favourite culture quote is \u00a0“culture is the collective behaviour and shared assumptions that guide, and affect how employees identify with an organisation”. Social recognition simply allows employees to positively contribute to that identity, and a culture they can believe in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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