From Real to Ideal: Envisioning and Moving Toward Your Best Culture [Culture Summit 2017]

From Real to Ideal: Envisioning and Moving

Toward Your Best Culture

August 2017

DROP IN + CONNECT

•  NAME TAG

•  SOMETHING WEIRD THAT MAKES YOU HAPPY

•  EXPECTATIONS OF THIS PLAYSHOP

Capture your expectations. Now…set them free!

CULTURE IS A JOURNEY

IF THE PATH BEFORE YOU IS CLEAR, YOU’RE PROBABLY

ON SOMEONE ELSE’S

— JOSEPH CAMPBELL —

What’s one way you’re bringing play and vulnerability into your workplace culture?

Shared Purpose

Science of Happiness

SUCCESS HAPPINESS ?

HAPPINESS SUCCESS


Psychologist: Sigmund Freud

what’s wrong with us?

Positive Psychology

What’s right with us?

10 orgs 2,000 teams

142,000 employees

Successful Org Happy Employees

2x more impact

Do happy employees cause organizational success or vice versa?

Source: Harter et al. 2010, Causal Impact of Employee Work Perceptions on the Bottom Line of Organizations

•  Employee Retention •  Customer Satisfaction •  Financial Performance

SIMPLE FORMULA

Happiness as a Business Model

Happiness makes sense

Scientific Sense Research shows happiness leads to success (not the

other way around)

Business Sense Happy Employees = Happy Customers = Successful Company (+ Meaningful Lives)

Human Sense Happiness is a universal goal, and we are all on

our individual paths


today

Martin Seligman Fredrickson & Losada Shawn Achor

15 years of research and hundreds of studies

Positive Psychology

1998

*Zappos’ growth in gross merchandise sales

DH Methodology

The DH Model = Intersection of Happiness & Culture

WHAT WHO

The DH Model: Values & Behaviors

CORE VALUES =

Well-defined & inspiring

BEHAVIORS =

Aligned actions Lived day-to-day

The DH Model: Science of Happiness

Happiness Habits:

Positivity Gratitude Altruism Mindfulness Flow

Happiness Levers:

Progress Control

Connectedness

Progress is a feeling of moving forward.

Progress

Boost Others: Give regular feedback

Boost Yourself: Breaking down large goals into small, manageable steps

Control

Boost Others: Trust people to make their own decisions

Boost Yourself: Focus on what you can control, not what you can’t

Control is a feeling of choice in what you do.

Connectedness

Boost Others: Ask people questions and show them you care about the answers

Boost Yourself: Join groups of people who share similar values

Connectedness is feeling an authentic closeness with the people around you.

The DH Model: Higher Purpose

HIGHER PURPOSE =

Meaning Evolutionary Noble Cause

“Being part of something

bigger than ourselves”

The Stengel 50 Outperform the Market

An investment in the Stengel 50 would have been 400% more profitable than

an investment in the S&P 500

Higher purpose leads to higher profit

The DH Model - WHO

ME =

Personal Accountability _______________

WE

= Team Alignment &

Organizational Wholeness _______________

COMMUNITY

= Client / Customer Focused

“Change happens everywhere & to everything naturally.

Imagine what organizations

could be when they're not designed as machines but treated

as living, growing ecosystems.“

— Frederic LaLoux, Reinventing Organizations

Our Methodology: DH Roadmap - HOW

ME: Culture is An Animal

Current & Ideal Culture


What animal represents you best? How does that animal behave at work?

Current & Ideal CultureWhat animal represents you in everyday life?

What are your strengths and learning edges? What characteristics do you embody?

What animal qualities would you like to adopt? How will those qualities help you at work?

WE: Culture as a Habitat

Current & Ideal Culture What animal represents you in everyday life?

What are your strengths and learning edges? What characteristics do you embody?

Think about your work culture, the good, the bad, and the ugly. Imagine it was a habitat, what would it be and why?

Current & Ideal CultureThink about your work environments strengths and learning edges, what qualities of the habitat are also like your culture?

Culture as a Habitat

Share… •  Your current work culture as a habitat •  What are the qualities of that habitat?

COMMUNITY: Our Planetary

Culture

Current & Ideal CultureHow is your brand shifting our planetary culture?


What’s next?

What needs to shift at your organization?

What needs to shift in

your leadership?

THANK YOU!!

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