Jamie Notter Blog
Definition of Organizational Culture
I had the great pleasure of doing a webinar recently with Brad Palmer, the CEO of Jostle. We were talking about shifting your organizational culture from toxic to Humanized. For that webinar, I wrote up a definition of organizational culture, which is something I...
Reminder: What I Do
Just a quick reminder to all my blog readers that in addition to all the thinking and writing I do, a also have a consulting and speaking business! My work focuses on helping clients improve organizational performance by strengthening their culture. There are a number...
Organizations are Flattening but Not Taking Risks
So I took a look at the data we've been collecting for the last year or so on the Humanize website through our Social Business Readiness Assessment. We took the ideas from Humanize and built them into a 60-question assessment that anyone can take individually online...
Financial Sustainability is Not a Strategy
I suppose I don't need ANOTHER reason to dislike strategic plans, but I was reminded of one the other day. I heard a volunteer of an association dutifully reporting to a chapter on how the national organization was making progress on it's strategic goals. Nothing...
Advice on Leadership, Conflict, and Diversity
I was interviewed by the folks at Reputation.com for their blog, including questions about conflict, trust, performance reviews, and culture. Check it out.
What to Do When the Leaders Don’t “Get It”
I delivered a webinar with Brad Palmer of Jostle yesterday titled "Transforming Your Workplace Culture from Toxic to Humanized." It was a great event, with 140 people viewing and listening online, many of whom had GREAT questions. It's the first webinar I've been a...
Financial Incentives and the Flat Earth
I saw a blog post the other day that said it is "almost cliche" now to point out that employees are not motivated by money, as if everyone now knows that is true. Dan Pink perhaps leads the way in advancing this idea in his awesome book, Drive. He's got very...
Moving Your Culture from Toxic to Humanized
I've got a cool webinar coming up next week: Transforming Your Culture from Toxic to Humanized. I'm giving it with Brad Palmer, who is the CEO of a very cool software company, Jostle, that I've written about before on the SocialFish blog. In my part of the...
One-Question Culture Survey
Please help me out with a very small research project. I'm curious how people would describe their organizational culture--not in terms of what drives the culture, but simply in terms of whether it is good or bad. I'm embedding the survey here, so please respond and...