Simon Thiessen
CEO, Culture Consultant, Facilitator
This article was personally written by Simon Thiessen based on over 30 years experience with leadership and workplace culture
Understanding, measuring and changing your workplace culture.
Each month during 2025, we will create resources (mostly free) to help leaders tackle issues that impede performance, undermine workplace culture and mess with their heads!
- A product for clients who need more support.
- Podcast (free)
- Resource – blog, checklist, downloadable tool (free)
- Plenty in 20 – a punch 20 minute on-demand webinar (free)
- Newsletter with links to those resources (free)
March’s topic was Understanding, measuring and changing your workplace culture.
Explore this month’s podcast, resources, and events below — all designed to help you drive accountability in your workplace.
Stay Authentic!
Product of the Month:
Workplace Culture Surveys
Workplaces – and the people in them – can seem complicated. That makes it hard for managers to be strategic about improving the workplace culture, performance, and team morale. It is easy to react to obvious, surface-level problems with band-aid solutions that lead to disillusionment with culture change efforts.
Check out the Organisational Culture Surveys page on our website – or click here to book a free consultation.
If you would like to take a data-driven, strategic approach that saves that frustration – along with time, money, and effort – a culture survey will give you the answers you need. It will set up a project-based, prioritised plan to address the underlying factors that hold your culture back.
Gain clear insights into the underlying drivers of your workplace culture. Let’s close the gap between your ideal and reality.
New Podcast Episode
Ever thrown your hands in the air and said – the monkeys are running the zoo!
But how did the monkeys come to be in charge? What’s the alternative – and how do you get there? Most importantly, is there a time when we want the monkeys to be running the zoo?
Check out this snappy, informative and engaging episode of The Culture Nerds: A leadership podcast.
Free Resource
Authentimeter💡
(free online culture survey)
Are the things you do, say, think and decide in your organisation aligned with the workplace culture you want to create?
Our 5-minute culture survey will provide an insight into your culture – what makes it tick, how healthy it is, and what you could do to improve it.
After completing the survey, you will receive a score and some commentary.
You will also be offered a free 30-minute consultation with one of our culture experts to
look break your score into seven categories and highlight specific areas for attention.
We guarantee you will receive at least one targeted, practical strategy that will drive quick and positive change.
Online Events
Plenty in 20 – March
➡️ Holding people accountable when you can’t afford to lose them
Another episode of our punchy, on-demand webinar packed full of strategies and tips.
This month we talk about managing poor performance and behavior without risking disengagement or losing hard-to-replace team members.
Register for our Plenty in 20 and gain access to a whole year of punchy, high content 20-minute webinars covering hot leadership topics – then watch them on-demand.
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