Retention rates. Employee engagement. Sustainable practices. Building meaning and purpose. These are concepts that too often live on paper and given lip service, but aren’t brought to life in company culture. Our blog is dedicated to breaking down these topics into actionable ideas for the day-to-day workings of your company — topics designed to dovetail with our podcast and discussion guides.
If you want organizational culture to stop feeling abstract and start showing up in meetings, decisions, and business outcomes, begin with three habits: Clarity, psychological safety, and role modeling. When your people can see what good looks like, practice it safely, and watch leaders do it first, change accelerates and
When a major utility company set out to modernize its timesheet system, success wasn’t guaranteed. The technology itself was sound. The training modules were ready. The executive team had signed off. Still, one question lingered: would the change take hold? It did, and then some. In just a few weeks,
In our last post, we explored the often-missed early warning signs that erode M&A value long before integration begins. The Autonomy-HP acquisition offered a vivid example of what happens when leadership underestimates the role of culture, sentiment, and trust in shaping outcomes. This time, we take the conversation one step
I. The overlooked risk in M&A When companies merge, it’s not just operations and systems that need to align. The organization’s culture needs to align too. In 2011, the $11 billion acquisition of Autonomy by HP remains a powerful lesson in what happens when culture alignment, change management, change communication
The silent strain on people managers In nearly every organization undergoing change, one group consistently bears the brunt but rarely gets the spotlight: people managers. They’re asked to translate leadership strategy into team action. To keep morale high while expectations shift. To embody calm, clarity, and direction while managing their
A few years ago, the Senscient team worked with a large healthcare organization poised to make meaningful impacts on the lives of patients by investing in a new functional business and accelerating innovation. They were also exploring improvements to patient care and the patient experience. Instead of developing new solutions,
Every organization has experienced it: the feeling that the workplace culture is quietly starting to erode—not from a headline-worthy crisis, but from something far more subtle. Leadership inconsistency. Leadership inconsistency can have a significant result: a team that generally works well together evolves into a collection of disconnected individuals slowing
The 2024 Work Trend Index Annual Report, a collaboration between Microsoft and LinkedIn, illuminates profound insights into the rapid integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in workplaces worldwide. This transformative technology is not only reshaping work processes, enhancing employee skills, and redefining organizational strategies. According to the report, 75% of global
Welcome to the forefront of human capital development, where the synergy between technology and talent offers unprecedented avenues for organizational evolution. In this transformative era, strategic alignment in support of the organizational purpose, coupled with the reinforcement of a people-centric culture, lays important foundations for driving positive change and profitability.
