Hi! And – congratulations! you made it to the end. And today is Grand Prize day!
Before we get to that, though, I want to encourage you to keep going with this process. As I said yesterday, you can come back and use these three steps over and over to continue creating awareness and focus on the qualities that you want your company’s culture to represent.
It is very easy to let a culture just sort of grow organically. And sometimes that works. But think how much better it could be – think how much better it would be – if you were really specifically intentional about it. Not just in creating an initial plan or overview or approach, but in actually focusing on it, say, once a month, or once a quarter, or whatever the right time frame it is for you. It doesn’t take much time, as we have illustrated in this process.
And this comes back to the point I made about consistency. Making sure that you follow up with the competencies for each of the culture qualities, as well as following up with repeating the process.
It doesn’t need to be a huge task – I have said that several times now. It really doesn’t. Just keep your finger on the pulse of the company, check in with your managers and your leaders, make sure they’re checking in with their teams. It can be as simple and quick as just a quick question at the start of any of your regularly-scheduled meetings: how’s everyone doing with those culture competencies? It’s probably easier to ask the question than it is for me to say that!
And finally, remember that I am here and available to answer questions. I have plenty of other resources here on my website, many of which are free, some of which do require an email address as “payment,” and some, of course, as paid services.
I really sincerely mean that I am open for questions. If you have a question about this, if you have a question about leadership, if you have a question about the various things that I talk about and offer here on this website, my Contact page has all the information on how to reach me. So please do.
Okay! About that Grand Prize: If you commented with your insights, ideas, or questions on all three of the days of this challenge, and you comment here today with your biggest takeaway – or your biggest disappointment, for that matter – or any of those questions I keep prompting you to ask, you will be eligible for the Grand Prize drawing.
So. With that, good luck with your culture communication efforts, good luck winning the Grand Prize, and do let me know how it goes! You don’t have to contact me just with questions; you can drop me a note and let me know how things are going. Take care!
(NOTE: The prizes were for the original participants in the three-day Challenge, and have all been awarded; there are no prizes currently being offered.)
