3 Keys to Scaling Your Company Culture
Three Keys to Scaling Your Company Culture
There are three keys to scaling your company culture successfully if your organization as grown in the past year. In this episode of The Solutions Oriented Leader Podcast I am going to share with you the three keys to scaling your company culture successfully.
Every entrepreneur wants to see their business grow—but in some ways, that growth can be a two-edged sword. For instance, you may feel like your unique company culture is a key component of your success—and a primary factor in your growth. But when you achieve that growth, you may find that your culture is difficult to hold onto.
This is by no means an uncommon realization that a 10-person team become more difficult to uphold when there are 25 or 50 or 200 of you.
The good news is that there are three key steps you can take to develop a culture that will grow with you—in short, a culture that scales.
Here are my Three Keys to Scaling Your Company Culture
How to Scale Your Company Culture
- Define your ideal culture
It’s always best to define success, setting a clear goal for what your company values should be. This isn’t about logistics like snacks in the break room or where you have the company holiday party. It’s more a matter of defining those intangible things that you’d like your company to be defined by—like collaboration, or relationship, or improving the lives of customers, or whatever else. These intangible things can easily be adapted as your business evolves.
- Build a culture team.
This is something more companies should do. Assemble a group of employees—ideally from different levels within the corporate hierarchy—and let them get together once a month or so to initiate cultural initiatives. Task them with creating and refining a statement of culture, and of reviewing the company’s activities to ensure ongoing cultural alignment.
- Make culture a part of your onboarding process.
One final suggestion: If you want new employees to fit into the culture, and to contribute to it in a meaningful way, make sure you talk about culture early in the hiring process. And, ask for their take—solicit their thoughts on what kind of culture they’d like to see.
These are just a few of my recommendations for building a company culture that will scale with you—but it’s something I’d love to talk with you about even more. Reach out and let us know we can help you! You can reach me at www.rickgoodman.com or call 888-267-6098.
What is a solutions-oriented leader? Take the free Solutions-Oriented Leader Assessment now and claim your Comprehensive Guide to Achieve Success. Dr. Rick Goodman’s Solutions-Oriented Leader book is now available to order online. In this first-of-a-kind, comprehensive guide, author Dr. Rick Goodman leads you through the everyday challenges of the modern workplace while providing you with easy-to-implement solutions to achieve world-class results!
Subscribe & Review in iTunes
Are you subscribed to my podcast? If you're not, I want to encourage you to do that today. I don't want you to miss an episode. I'm adding a bunch of bonus episodes to the mix and if you're not subscribed there's a good chance, you'll miss out on those. Click here to subscribe in iTunes!
I'd be really grateful if you left me review over on iTunes too. Those reviews help other people find my podcasts there. It’s also fun for me to go in and read them. Just click here to review, select ratings and reviews and write a review and let me know what your favorite part of the podcast is.
Thank you!
Dr. Rick