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Published by Matt Holt Books
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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About The Book
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Perhaps your company culture is immortalized in a mission statement on your website or framed on your office walls, but how often are you actively cultivating those values?
Culture cannot be a set-it-and-forget-it aspect of your business.
Weaving culture-building into your daily and weekly activities strengthens the engagement of your people and reinforces the key principles of your desired culture, making it a reality.
In Cultivating Culture, author, speaker, and leadership coach Brad Federman provides actionable tools for immediately promoting better teamwork, creating two-way conversations with your people, and gaining better feedback about how things are really going.
With the belief that we are what we talk about, Federman offers more than 100 ways to engage your team in conversations that matter. Make your meetings about more than tasks, deadlines, and problems, and instead utilize Cultivating Culture’s pre-meeting notes and activities to grow a deeper understanding of the work you’re doing and why.
Activities are divided into eight key focus areas:
Leadership
Communication
Talent development
Inclusion
Team harmony
Solution seeking
Safety
Serving your customers
Regular attention to these principles will not only sustain your culture and amplify the presence of your values at work, but result in exponential growth in all of your endeavors. Cultivating Culture is your practical, accessible guide to becoming the most effective leader you can, 15 purposeful minutes at a time.
Perhaps your company culture is immortalized in a mission statement on your website or framed on your office walls, but how often are you actively cultivating those values?
Culture cannot be a set-it-and-forget-it aspect of your business.
Weaving culture-building into your daily and weekly activities strengthens the engagement of your people and reinforces the key principles of your desired culture, making it a reality.
In Cultivating Culture, author, speaker, and leadership coach Brad Federman provides actionable tools for immediately promoting better teamwork, creating two-way conversations with your people, and gaining better feedback about how things are really going.
With the belief that we are what we talk about, Federman offers more than 100 ways to engage your team in conversations that matter. Make your meetings about more than tasks, deadlines, and problems, and instead utilize Cultivating Culture’s pre-meeting notes and activities to grow a deeper understanding of the work you’re doing and why.
Activities are divided into eight key focus areas:
Regular attention to these principles will not only sustain your culture and amplify the presence of your values at work, but result in exponential growth in all of your endeavors. Cultivating Culture is your practical, accessible guide to becoming the most effective leader you can, 15 purposeful minutes at a time.
Product Details
- Publisher: Matt Holt Books (March 1, 2022)
- Length: 224 pages
- ISBN13: 9781637740644
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Raves and Reviews
"""Brad Federman provides simple steps, provoked by thoughtful questions, to yield honest insights. You don't rollout a culture; it's earned though dedication and commitment. Your teams deserve this. Enjoy the adventure.""
—Rick Colling, Global Head, Homewood Suites by Hilton
""Cultivating Culture provides proven, practical activities to improve communication and two-way dialog. The book includes templates for conversation and exploration to help managers navigate the cultural changes occurring in today's workforce.""
—Lani Glancy, Vice President of Talent Development, DEI, and Communications, AutoZone, Inc.
""Most books on corporate culture are weighty philosophical tomes, chock-full of platitudes. Cultivating Culture is the exact opposite. It is a trove of practical actions leaders can take to build and reinforce a healthy culture.""
—John ""Jack"" Zenger, CEO, Zenger Folkman and Coauthor of Mindful Listening
""I couldn't stop reading as I faced the mirror and answered the tough questions Brad Federman poses about our core values and culture. Does our culture really help people rise above themselves and reach their full potential?Are we walking the talk or just creating confusion? . . . Thank you, Brad, for the nudge to work on our core values and culture, the glue that holds us together.""
—Daphne Large, CEO, Data Facts, Inc.
""When leaders invest in creating an employee-centric culture, it becomes a very positive and rewarding aspect of the lives of their team. Embarking on the journey toward an engaging workplace is imperative for any sustainable organization. In Cultivating Culture, Brad helps to show you the way.""
—Rick Merluzzi, CEO, Metal Exchange Corporation
""Cultivating Culture is a road map for business leaders to use to help navigate their way through the difficult challenge of improving culture. Brad Federman provides a tangible guide that outlines simple solutions leaders can follow to make a measurable impact on culture.""
—B. Scot Lenoir, Chairman Evolve Bank & Trust
""Your company's culture and values must be fed and nurtured, and Cultivating Culture provides an insightful and easy-to-follow roadmap to do exactly that. Brad Federman taps his deep organizational experience to distill and present key exercises for your organization around taking initiative, recognizing contributions, leadership behaviors and more.""
—Franklin Sullivan, SVP, Channel Strategy and Execution, ABB Inc.
""Culture is fluid, living, amorphous, omnipresent and ever-changing. Brad Federman has a unique appreciation for its profound complexity and its potential impactfulness. His many years dedicated to Culture give him the wisdom that it can't be created—it must be cultivated . . . continuously.""
—Nestor Benavides, CEO, BAPM Group at Bureau Veritas Group"
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