Jamie Notter Blog

BOTTOM LINE “Employer Branding” treats the employment process as if it was an act of consumption, and it’s not—it’s about commitment to a long-term relationship, which means your brand is ultimately about what it’s truly like to work there, because that’s what talent...

BOTTOM LINE Culture change doesn’t have to take as long as it usually does, and that’s because we’re (a) ignoring our existing culture patterns, (b) choosing our change priorities almost randomly, and (c) waiting until it’s too late to course correct. My advisory...

That’s according to a 2021 study published in MIT’s Sloan Management Review: “A toxic culture is 10.4 times more likely to contribute to attrition than compensation.” The researchers dug deep into why people were leaving organizations during the great resignation, and...

BOTTOM LINE: Culture assessments measure one moment in time, so there will always be external factors that can push the scores in one direction or another, but for the most part these variations will be at the edges. A good culture assessment will give you enough data...

BOTTOM LINE: When you consistently take meaningful action based on your surveys, and share that with your people, they will never get tired of answering future surveys. THE DETAILS: Survey fatigue is when your people lack the motivation to complete a survey you send...

BOTTOM LINE: We think the average organization could see as much as a 25% increase in results if they could create a culture that was perfectly aligned with success. True perfection may not be attainable, but there are tremendous gains to be realized from improving...

BOTTOM LINE: Your organization’s ability to change is rooted in (a) how much your culture supports individual agency, and (b) how flexible your culture is with control. Agency is about individual employees feeling confident in taking action, solving problems, and...

BOTTOM LINE: We all get off track occasionally, but if you are consistently missing targets, then there is likely an underlying culture issue. These are three of the biggest underlying issues we come across: Lagging transparency—we’re not proactive in our information...

BOTTOM LINE: A good culture assessment gives you the straight truth about what your culture IS right now, and if there are parts of your culture that are “negative,” then you simply need to change them. The longer you wait to see that, the worse things will become....