LinkedIn Weekly Culture Report 02.02.20

Welcome to the weekly roundup of the trends and most notable content related to culture management on LinkedIn. We're scouring the platform everyday to find posts about what's happening in the world of corporate culture and employee experience. This is what you need to know that happened last week.

Let's get to the highlights:

Super Bowl Legend Talks Company Culture

We're posting this week's round up on Super Bowl Sunday. In honor of that cultural event in the U.S. we thought we'd share a quick video clip of three-time Super Bowl champ, Steve Young, being cornered on media row this week.

He was asked, "taking us into your career with the 49ers - that organization was a championship culture for decades. What do you think is the key to establishing that kind of culture early on and then maintaining it for so many years? What can businesses learn from that?"

Steve's answer is worth listening to and was posted by several people including Oracle NetSuite SVP Jason Maynard:

Boeing's CEO Charged with Fixing Its Culture

This week Boeing's new CEO Dave Calhoun (one of few CEOs with no profile on LinkedIn) faced the financial press during his first quarterly earnings call. First question? It came from Bank of America analyst Ronald Epstein. Of all the questions he could ask here's what he wanted to know:

"How do you change the culture in as big of an organization [as Boeing]?

Calhoun's response is worth reading. He acknowledged it's a "big question" and then talked about the lack of "listening" by leaders in the organization. So much of culture management is about listening. One of the first skills we spend time developing with executives and people leaders that engage our firm is around the culture management tool called Focused Feedback. Managing culture requires listening for beliefs that exist that are negatively impacting achievement of results. Those beliefs could have easily been uncovered years ago at Boeing.

Here's one of many posts related to Boeing that you all sent our way this week. The article attached to the bottom of this post is worth the time of any CHRO or leader in charge of culture.

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Walmart Opens Its Second Health Clinic

We have a good number of healthcare leaders who read this weekly newsletter. They've been listening for the last few years as Walmart has talked about expanding into healthcare. This week was a major milestone as that talk moves into action.

Walmart's CEO Doug McMillon was on hand in Calhoun, Georgia as the highest revenue generating company in the US opened the doors of its second Walmart Health clinic.

This new service will crush healthcare organizations with weak cultures. Nothing negatively impacts innovation and speed-to-market more than a toxic or unhealthy culture.

This post shared by a medical director now employed by Walmart caught our attention. Listen to him defend the culture at Walmart Health to his clinical colleagues at other hospitals and clinics. It's time for the healthcare industry to be on notice!

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LinkedIn Deploys 250 Culture Champions

This past week featured InDay for many LinkedIn employees around the globe. What is that? It's organized by LinkedIn's army of Culture Champions as a day of giving back.

There were dozens of posts by LinkedIn Culture Champions at various sites about what their teams did as part of the day. We included one from Jessica Escobar that includes her and a colleague sporting their CC t-shirts.

Many of you have seen me rant in some of my daily posts about how working on culture isn't about grilling hotdogs or setting up a foosball table. If culture is a soft word in your organization it's likely because you're treating it that way. The organizations we work with deploy Culture Champions to up-skill people leaders on how to manage culture and impact business results. Their job isn't to be the party people.

Having said all of that we love that LinkedIn is utilizing their Culture Champions is to inject more purpose and service into their organization. To read more about LinkedIn's Culture Champions here's an article detailing a Culture Champion Camp and the picture post I mentioned:

These are just a few of the posts about company culture that caught our attention this week. There are always too many to mention. We'll be back next week with another edition of the LinkedIn Weekly Culture Report!

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Russ Hill is host of the Decide to Lead podcast and a senior partner at Partners In Leadership. He is an executive coach helping leaders manage their culture to build accountability for game-changing results.