Your company is most likely suffering from a culture chasm. The latest research from VitalSmarts shows leaders say they want a culture characterized by innovation, initiative, candor, and teamwork while employees say what’s really valued is obedience, predictability, and deference to authority.
And these perception gaps between employees and their bosses matter—a lot. Employees with a negative view of the culture are 32% less likely to be engaged, motivated and committed and 26% less likely to rate their organization as successful at innovating and executing.
So why are your leaders so out of touch? It’s because you likely have a culture of silence where people feel unsafe to address concerns. And when it comes to fixing corporate culture, the place to start is with dialogue.
Join bestselling author and leading researcher David Maxfield on July 21 at 1:00 pm ET in a live webinar where he’ll share the results of our latest research into the culture chasm affecting your organization, as well as share tips for kicking off culture change. You’ll learn:
• How to make the business case for change
• How to identify and focus on a few vital behaviors that will make
the biggest difference in performance
• How to listen deeply to your employees’ concerns
• Actionable steps for aligning employee experience with management expectations
