Senior Practitioners SIG - Culture

01-Feb-2012

MAPPING OUR CULTURE

Mark your calendars for our upcoming Senior HR Practitioners SIG Meeting on Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at 8am located at airG Inc., 710 – 1133 Melville Street, Vancouver, BC.

The topic will be “Mapping Our Culture” facilitated by one of our members Brad Herbert. This is a continuation to the presentation on The Business of Developing Culture by Sheila Bouman from Navigo.
 
As usual, we will all share our personal experiences and stories so please come prepared to discuss how you have married your own ideas with the input you gathered from your team members and leadership team to create a “map” of everything you are doing to influence your culture proactively.
 

If you have your own cultural assessment tools and exercises, best practices, or lessons learned, please feel free to share and bring copies for our group.

Please RSVP if you are able to attend to SIG Co-Leader, Lorie Corcuera at LorieC@airg.com.

 
Here are some recent articles on culture – have fun reading!
 
Fast Company: Culture Isn’t Costly – How to Get Google’s Workplace Culture on the Cheap
http://www.fastcompany.com/1801014/culture-isnt-costly
 
HBR: What Great Companies Know About Culture
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/12/what_great_companies_know_abou.html
 
INC: 7 Steps to a Culture of Innovation
http://www.inc.com/articles/201106/josh-linkner-7-steps-to-a-culture-of-innovation.html
 
HBR: You Can’t Dictate Culture – But You Can Influence It
http://blogs.hbr.org/ashkenas/2011/06/you-cant-dictate-culture-but-y.html
 
HBR: Four Lessons on Culture and Customer Service from Zappos CEO, Tony Hsieh
http://blogs.hbr.org/tjan/2010/07/four-lessons-on-culture-and-cu.html
 
And finally, a fun TEDTALK by Tony Robbins – Why We Do What We Do

http://www.ted.com/talks/tony_robbins_asks_why_we_do_what_we_do.html