How to bring about positive cultural change in your team

Looking to influence your team culture? Try this framework.

As managers, we think and talk a lot about culture. The ability to build a positive team culture is part of our own growth and development. But what exactly is “culture”?

The simplest way I’ve heard culture described is, “People like us do things like this.”

All groups of people – large and small, permanent and temporary – have specific cultures. Culture can have objective traits (like language, food, sport, and art) as well as subjective traits that are less obvious (like behaviors, values, and beliefs). Every group has norms that are taught and perpetuated through the words and actions of its members – and that’s culture.

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