I had a guest appearance on the Technology Leadership Podcast with Jake Whitby and the chance to talk about my most favorite topic: the significance of an open culture in a company’s success.

An open culture helps with recruitment, conflict resolution, and team cohesion, while satisfying core needs such as belonging, improvement, choice, equality, predictability, and significance. This helps build high-performing teams which lead a business to success.

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Key Takeaways:

  • Understand how an open culture - making the culture of an organisation explicit and shareable - is not just something that happens organically over time.
  • Learn more about spending time with your team, understanding their values, and bringing everyone together and why it’s crucial for a progressive company - allowing everyone to have a say in decision-making can lead to high retention rates.
  • Hear more about why open communication and an open culture are essential for a company to succeed from developing a process for taking decisions to consulting everyone who will be affected by a decision.
  • Get insight into why in times of economic hardship, transparency and communication are even more crucial with openness being a multiplier for shared understanding for why things are the way they are in a company and facilitator of better solutions.
  • Consider why reducing salaries instead of laying off employees can be an option in times of economic hardship.
  • Understand more about the core needs of a team and psychological safety, including: Belonging, Improvement, Choice, Equality, Predictability, and Significance, represented by the acronym BICEPS.