Culture & Habits

Define your culture by identifying your habits and discussing the 7 ingredients of culture.

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Jan 7, 2025
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7 sessions · 24 steps
01

Monthly Habits

3 steps
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    💫 Monthly Recurring Activities & Habits

  2. 2

    Improvements

  3. 3

    Observations.

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1. 💫 Monthly Recurring Activities & Habits
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2. Improvements

Is there anything we should do on a monthly basis, adopt as a new habit, stop doing, or improve?

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3. Observations.
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02

Yearly Actions - Leaders 🦸

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    Annual Habits: Activities that happen every year 🦸

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    🎯 Indicate this year's key objectives.

  3. 3

    Notes.

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1. Annual Habits: Activities that happen every year 🦸

Recurring yearly activities and habits form the foundation of any company and team. Without them, both the company and team can struggle. Establishing and maintaining good habits—whether yearly, quarterly, or monthly—is essential for defining the path to a team's success. Ensure your list of recurring activities aligns with your values, and review and improve it annually to drive continuous growth and alignment.

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2. 🎯 Indicate this year's key objectives.

10 to 15 key objectives a year max. 🎯Objectives should be clear, memorable, and inspiring to motivate everyone in the company to aim higher. They should include both an aspirational and realistic component, such as:

•Aspirational Goal: Represents the ideal outcome to strive for. 🪄 🪄 🪄
•Realistic Goal: Represents the achievable result based on current resources and circumstances.

🪄 Anything below the realistic goal will be considered as the goal not being achieved. This dual approach encourages ambition while maintaining practicality.

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3. Notes.

Things change, new opportunities may arise during the year, shifting priorities, and decisions are made to better support the team and the organization. Add comments here when decisions are made or delays occur that affect the original plan.

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03

Ingredients of culture

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    "Ingredients" of culture

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    Further discussion

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1. "Ingredients" of culture

The "ingredients" of culture refer to the elements that shape and define the collective behaviors, values, beliefs, and norms of a group, organization, or society.

Start by discussing and defining yours.

1. Values and Beliefs ❤️

•Values: Core principles that guide behavior, such as honesty, innovation, or respect.
•Beliefs: Shared understandings or assumptions about the world, often rooted in history, religion, or tradition.

2. Norms and Behaviors👇

•Norms: Unwritten rules about acceptable behavior, like how people dress or interact.
•Behaviors: Daily actions and rituals that reflect cultural norms.
•Rules and Policies: Explicit guidelines and structures that govern behavior, such as company handbooks or societal laws.

3. Symbols and Language 🗨💥

•Symbols: Icons, logos, or imagery that hold significant meaning (e.g., flags, logos, art).
•Language: Specific terms, jargon, or slang unique to the group.

4. Rituals and Traditions 🍮

Regular practices, ceremonies, or events that reinforce shared identity, such as annual celebrations, onboarding rituals, or even recurring meetings and habits.

5. Stories and Narratives

Historical events, myths, or shared experiences that convey the identity and values of the group.

6. Leadership and Role Models

The behavior of leaders or influential figures that sets the tone and expectations for the group.

7. Shared Goals and Vision 🥇

A unifying purpose or mission that aligns individuals within the culture.

Other considarations:

•Artifacts and Material Culture: Physical objects, tools, or technology that represent the culture (e.g., office layout, dress codes, digital tools).
•Environment and Context: The physical and social environment, including geography, economic conditions, and historical context.
2. Further discussion

Leaders often ask a range of strategic and tactical questions about creating or improving company culture.

Here are a few things you should try to answer:

Where do we stand now?

•What is our current company culture like?
•How do employees perceive it?
•Are there gaps between our stated values and actual behaviors?

The goal:

A clear and honest assessment of the current culture, often through employee feedback, surveys, or external audits.

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  • What’s Our Company Culture?
  • Values and Beliefs Core principles that guide behavior, such as honesty, innovation, or respect.
  • Norms and Behaviors Unwritten rules about acceptable behavior, like how people dress or interact and explicit guidelines and structures that govern behavior, such as company handbooks or laws.
  • Symbols and Language Symbols: Icons, logos, or imagery that hold significant meaning (e.g., flags, logos, art).
  • Each "ingredient" works together to create a unique cultural identity that can evolve over time. Would you like a deeper dive into any of these?
  • Rituals and Traditions (habits) Regular practices, ceremonies, or events that reinforce shared identity, such as annual celebrations, onboarding rituals, or even recurring meetings and any other habits
  • Stories and Narratives Historical events, myths, or shared experiences that convey the identity and values of the group
  • Leadership and Role Models The behavior of leaders or influential figures that sets the tone and expectations for the group.
  • Shared Goals and Vision A unifying purpose or mission that aligns individuals within the culture.
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Monthly - Shared vision 👀

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    🧨🎉 QuarterlyPriorities (must-do)

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    📌🎯 This Month's Deliverables (expected)

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    🧲 This Month Must Get Started or On My Radar

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    Key Documents and Links

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    Any concerns, topics or blockers you may face? Do you need any help? Do you think something else could be a priority?

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1. 🧨🎉 QuarterlyPriorities (must-do)

👀 Here are our key priorities for this month. These are the tasks we must focus on first and dedicate all our efforts to achieving. In other words, these are must-dos that need to be completed, delivered, reviewed, and approved before the month ends. If there are blockers or issues slowing down progress, immediate action must be taken to address them, and your manager must be informed immediately.

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2. 📌🎯 This Month's Deliverables (expected)

These are the tangible outcomes I am expected to deliver this month. 📌They help move closer to achieving goals 🎯 or directly contribute to reaching them, such as completing a milestone, submitting a report, or launching a new feature.

👉Deliverables are outcomes: Activities like meetings or recurring tasks are not deliverables. They are actions required to reach a deliverable.🤓💫

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3. 🧲 This Month Must Get Started or On My Radar

These are items I need to start now to ensure timely delivery in the future or tasks that have come up that are not urgent or immediately important but could be initiated or addressed this month. 🧲

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4. Key Documents and Links
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5. Any concerns, topics or blockers you may face? Do you need any help? Do you think something else could be a priority?
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05

Monthly Habits - Leaders 🦸‍♂‍

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    💫 🦸‍♂‍ Monthly Recurring Activities & Habits

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    ⏳⚡ Key Priorities this Month

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    Improvements

  4. 4

    Observations.

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1. 💫 🦸‍♂‍ Monthly Recurring Activities & Habits
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2. ⏳⚡ Key Priorities this Month

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3. Improvements

Is there anything we should do on a monthly basis, adopt as a new habit, stop doing, or improve?

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4. Observations.
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06

Yearly Vision & Goals 🗂 👀

3 steps
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    🎯 Indicate this year's key objectives.

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    🗂 Documents & Links

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    Notes.

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1. 🎯 Indicate this year's key objectives.

🎯Objectives should be clear, memorable, and inspiring to motivate everyone in the company to aim higher. They should include both an aspirational and realistic component, such as:

•Aspirational Goal: Represents the ideal outcome to strive for. 🪄 🪄 🪄
•Realistic Goal: Represents the achievable result based on current resources and circumstances.
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2. 🗂 Documents & Links
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3. Notes.

Things change, new opportunities may arise during the year, shifting priorities, and decisions are made to better support the team and the organization. Add comments here when decisions are made or delays occur that affect the original plan.

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07

Q - Shared vision

4 steps
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    🧨🎉 Quarterly Priorities (must-do)

  2. 2

    📌🎯 Quarterly Goals

  3. 3

    Key Documents and Links

  4. 4

    Overall Notes.

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1. 🧨🎉 Quarterly Priorities (must-do)

👀 Here are our key priorities for this quarter. These are the tasks we must focus on first and dedicate all our efforts to achieving. In other words, these are must-dos that need to be completed, delivered, reviewed, and approved before the quarter ends. If there are blockers or issues slowing down progress, immediate action must be taken to address them, and your manager must be informed immediately.

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2. 📌🎯 Quarterly Goals
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3. Key Documents and Links
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4. Overall Notes.
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