Your culture has a personality.

Here’s how to put it to work.

Insights for CEOs and HR leaders on attracting, engaging, and keeping the people your culture runs on.

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Culture

Level 3 Still Has Toxic Behavior. The Difference Is It’s Managed.

Naming your culture doesn't make bad behavior disappear. It gives you a standard to catch it against. Here's what a managed culture actually looks like.
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Onboarding

Onboarding Is Where New Hires Find Out If Your Culture Is Real

New hires spend their first weeks checking whether the culture they were sold is the one they joined. Here's what they're looking for, and how onboarding builds belonging.
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Culture

Your Culture Has a Default Setting

When a company never decides what its culture should be, it runs on a default: the law, or whoever is in charge. Here are the signs of each.
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Performance

Why Good Managers Struggle: The Reason That Usually Gets Overlooked

When a manager struggles, we look at skills, fit and training. Those matter. But there's another variable most companies never check: the culture the manager is carrying.
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Culture

The Tell: What the Reasons Behind Bad Behavior Reveal About Your Culture

When bad behavior keeps happening at work, we blame the person. But behavior that keeps going is telling you what your environment allows.
Illustrated pyramid in three levels: overwhelmed employees among stacks of paper and legal scales at the base, a manager between arguing coworkers in the middle, and a confident leader with her team at the top

Culture

What Is the Toxic Culture Pyramid™?

Every company runs on a standard for what's acceptable, written or not. The Toxic Culture Pyramid™ shows which one yours runs on: the law, whoever's in the room, or your
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Culture

What We Get Wrong About Toxic Culture

Leadership blames HR. HR blames leadership. Employees blame both. The real culprit in a toxic culture is usually one nobody's looking at: a culture that was never defined as a
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HR Experience (HRX™)

HR Already Has a System. Nobody Designed It.

Every company already has an HR system people experience. The question is whether the law, whoever is in the room, or your culture designed it.
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Performance

AI Didn’t Break Your Performance Reviews. It Exposed What Was Missing.

Most managers now use AI to help write performance reviews. Very few employees are told. Here's what that gap does to trust, and what to put in place.