Why Company Culture Work Stalls at the Top

There’s a lot of talk these days about company culture and the need for change in order to improve organizational health and retention. Many progressive organizations are doing company culture work in an effort to increase engagement, fulfillment, and work-life balance. We’ve had quite a few clients come to us who have already done company culture work. They have even utilized Patrick Lencioni’s “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team” . Still, they have not been able to implement permanent changes. Despite their effort, they slide back to old patterns or find themselves stuck in the same place they were before. The reason for this lies at the top – company culture only changes to the level of its leaders. Let’s …

VIDEO: Chris Yonker Speaks on Organizational Health – Part 1

In this video, Chris Yonker talks about the importance of organization Health. In the masterful book, The Advantage, by Patrick Lencioni he says that organization help “trumps everything”. Chris uses the example of a dysfunctional family. In a family where there are continual breakdowns, what is the environment like? How will children of a family like this be sent into the world? Leadership in an organization is no different. How an organization overcomes challenges is directly affected by the functionality of the business. Often times, organizational health is overlooked because people are too close to the problem. Or they don’t know how to fix it, or it’s too hard or uncomfortable. We’re not built to overcome these challenges in a …