The Four Transformative Leadership Habits for a Thriving Culture
Tobias Sturesson
Empowering leaders to transform culture for business success, employee thriving, and ethical impact | Author of You Can Culture | Co-founder of Heart Management | Podcast host
Welcome to Culture Insights Monthly, October 2024 Edition!
I hope it will give you actionable insights to strengthen cultural health for a trusted and thriving organization.
A short introduction: I'm the author of You Can Culture: Transformative Leadership Habits for a Thriving Workplace, Positive Impact and Lasting Success and co-founder of Heart Management.
P.S. At the end of this newsletter, I present an amazing, free opportunity to grow your leadership. You can read more here.
In an earlier edition of Culture Insights, I introduced the idea that cultural health—which enables us to deliver on our mission and strategy, create a thriving workplace, and have a responsible impact—is not primarily built by short-term culture initiatives or events but by the everyday leadership habits that signal what is valued, rewarded, or disregarded in our team or organization.
Through our work with hundreds of leaders in numerous organizations and extensive research over many years, we’ve discovered that, just like the heart has four chambers, there are four vital leadership habits that will transform your cultural health.
They aren’t complex, but they are challenging. They will push your comfort zone, and you can’t relegate them to someone else.
As a leader, you have to take ownership and be the change.
I detail the habits and related actionable practices in my book You Can Culture, but here is an overview:
Habit 1: Get Humble
As leaders, we will, at times, realize that we have acted in conflict with our mission or values, become a part of hindering behavioral patterns, or begun to accept a lack of cultural health. When these issues are hidden, disregarded, or not dealt with consistently and urgently, there is a risk of breaking trust and impairing our ability to fulfill the mission, build a thriving workplace, and have a responsible impact.
However, by embracing vulnerability, taking ownership, and actively working to repair broken trust, we can avoid pitfalls and transform our cultural health.
Related Practices
Habit 2: Get Clear
Many values statements are vague, disconnected from the mission, and seldom prioritized or consistently adhered to, leading to a lack of integrity and clarity around cultural priorities and hindering strategy execution.
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To build and sustain cultural health, we must clarify our most important values, celebrate the right behaviors, and deal with unhelpful or destructive behavior.
Related Practices
Habit 3: Get Listening
When team members don’t speak up or their voices go unheard, we lose critical insight into dilemmas, concerns, and opportunities for learning, improvement, and growth. As leaders, we often overes- time our listentimatbility and underestimate how hard it can be to give feedback or raise concerns.
To break the silence, transform our cultural health, and avoid pitfalls, we must get listening by soliciting feedback, creating conditions for brave conversations, and exercising voicing our values.
Related Practices
Habit 4: Get Integrity
Too often there’s conflict between the values we claim and the signals we send. We might, for example, say we want teamwork but incentivize only individual performance.
To avoid mixed signals, we must ensure that the stories we tell, the rituals we design, and the processes and incentives we set embody our mission and values and sustain our cultural health.
Join us on a journey to develop transformative habits
Starting in November, we embark on a journey to cultivate these essential habits. Guided by my book You Can Culture, you will receive invitations to complimentary webinars and podcast interviews, where I delve into these habits and practices alongside distinguished academics and executives.
Additionally, you will gain access to other valuable resources to support your growth.
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1 个月Changing the leaders mindset from passive to active culture is key! And you wrote the path, Tobias - thank you!
CEO & Founder @ Amaze Growth | People & Culture Consulting I Public Speaker
1 个月leaders should promote open communication, model ethical behavior, and recognize employees’ contributions. it’s all about those daily habits