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Managing team culture from the inside out

By March 27, 2013December 6th, 2023Advocate, Leader, Written Only
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In January I wrote about the magic lever of organizational culture change (link). Today I’m preparing for a nursing leadership seminar about organizational culture and change for people who lead teams in much larger organizations. While I mostly want to hear from the participants – sharing experiences has much more value than anything I could share – I have the following pearls:

  1. Be the ideal – act as you expect others to act – the golden rule. Simple but tough. You have most control of this
  2. Hire for culture – You can train skills, but you can’t train for attitude. The best opportunity is at hiring.
  3. Leverage diversity -build different skills, ways of thinking (Myers-Briggs), and life experiences into your team. 
  4. Experiment, learn with your teams – who knows what will work? Try stuff out. If it doesn’t work try something else
  5. Engage patients & caregivers – it’s the right thing to do, but it also changes the conversation dramatically 
  6. Be transparent with information – Whether you have grade A or grade C data – share it. Let people comment, criticize, engage. Tell stories. Welcome scrutiny.
  7. Market the change – You can’t change everything or everyone, but you can change the people who matter (the link takes you to Seth Godin’s blog)
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