How to design companies people actually want to work at
Why service design is the secret to supercharging your employee experience? Whilst the origins of service design have traditionally focused on enhancing customer experiences, its principles can be easily and effectively applied to internal processes and interactions within an organisation.
Ask the EXpert: How to create a culture of accountability?
Your company is growing but youβre starting to see dips in performance and commitment? Say no more, here are our top tips on how to sprinkle some magic accountability dust on your team and get them back on track!
Unsuckify your meetings
People will forget what you made, people will forget what you sold, but people will never forget how you made them feel at the weekly team meeting. Read this blog for tips to make your meetings unforgettable.
Ask the EXpert: How to get my team buy-in on the OKRs?
Setting your OKRs is one achievement. But how do you turn skeptical faces into nodding heads? Getting your team on the OKR bandwagon is not a sprint, itβs more like a delightful marathon.
Framework: Team alignment
Team alignment is one of the key pillars of your companyβs Operating System (cOS), and is essential to the foundation of your companyβs strategy and growth. The 2Ps framework is your go-to for quick and efficient weekly check-ins.
AI meets Culture: Use cases for getting the most out of both
At The Future Kind, weβre all about AI and human collaboration over human replacement. In this blog, weβre going to focus on how embracing AI can be a game-changer for your company culture.
The secret to growth: Your company Operating System
To thrive as we grow, we need a systematic approach that enables us to maximise our potential whilst minimising mishaps - enabling true teamwork, and unlocking our biggest competitive advantage - our culture.
Ask the EXpert: How to operationalise your company values
βHow to operationalise your company values?β Letβs get stuck straight in to how you can design questions that ensure that youβre hiring for values-fit and culture addβ¦
Framework: Moments that Matter
Values are who you are as a company; theyβre what you believe in, how you show up and what you do. Thatβs why itβs super important that you and your employees are living them every day, and to support them in doing this your values should be demonstrated and reinforced through key moments across your employee experience.
What happens when founders fail to invest in their culture?
Have you ever said, βWeβll get to defining our culture when weβre less busyβ? Sound familiar? If so, youβre certainly not alone. On this occasion though, itβs not a case of safety in numbers.
Framework: Self-reflection for effective leaders
Great leadership relies on our ability to regularly self-reflect and adapt to ever changing situations. It also helps us to hone in on our strengths and identify our growth opportunities so that we can take action to develop our skills.
Framework: the Wellbeing Wheel
To understand and visualise how you are doing in each of the 8 pillars of wellbeing, and to identify which areas need more attention.
Ask the EXpert: How to end meetings on a high?
βHow to end meetings on a high?β Ending our meetings on a high note is just as important as starting them well.
Framework: Decision making
Apply the framework when aiming to streamline communication and involvement levels in your team, ensuring that each decision aligns with appropriate leadership engagement based on its urgency and impact.
Framework: Retrospective
To provide a time and space to reflect on your work or a project and capture what you've learnt, and what you're going to apply to improve things as a team.
WTF is wellbeing?
Nowadays, it can feel like the conversation around wellbeing is pretty embedded, but actually its entry into the workplace is still a fairly new concept.
Ask the EXpert: Culture & Community building
Defining a culture within the communities we build is so important, but it can be tricky to strike a balance between your perspective as a leader of the community and the perspectives of your community members.
Framework: Delivering feedback
When you need to provide critical feedback to a team mate or client, and to support you in challenging conversations. This is particularly helpful if youβve observed somebody undermining your company values.
3 reasons why culture should be every founders top priority in 2023
For many businesses, the last few years have been stuck in survival mode β and for good reason! Now itβs time for our priorities to change.
Ask the EXpert: Can Culture be designed?
βCan culture be designed?β Yes! Hereβs three ways to approach your culture design.