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Career Risks Worth Taking | businessnewsdaily.com

Posted on April 24, 2024 by knjohn | Leave a comment

Taking a leap of faith is risky, especially with something as important as your career. But some risks are worth taking. If you play your cards right, you could achieve more than you ever thought possible. Although a career risk may not be easy, here are four that are often worth taking.

4 career risks worth taking

If you’re thinking about making any one of these big career moves, it could be well worth the risk.

1. Choosing a job based on culture rather than salary

When choosing between two jobs, you might be tempted to take the one accompanied by the higher salary.

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How to Hire an Employee for Cultural Fit | businessnewsdaily.com

Posted on March 5, 2024 by knjohn | Leave a comment

Cultural fit is a concept that can be hard to define, but everyone knows when it is missing. Imagine a company founder who believes that an open office plan and team projects promote creativity and progress, but whose employees are introverts who prefer privacy. Or think about the ambitious employee stuck in an organization that offers no employee training programs, tuition reimbursement or room for advancement.

At its core, cultural fit means that employees’ beliefs and behaviors are in alignment with their employer’s core values and company culture. Finding employees that add to your company culture is important; as such, cultural fit should play a key role in your recruiting and hiring process.

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How to Create a Strong Company Culture | Business.com

Posted on January 25, 2024 by knjohn | Leave a comment

Company culture directly affects employee recruitment, retention, and turnover. Workers thrive in cultures that encourage support, personal growth, and open communication – but this isn’t always easy to achieve. Keeping everyone on the same page can be difficult when you have a diverse company with numerous employees. However, there are ways to address this issue and ensure workers perform with the same goals and values.

What is company culture?

Company culture refers to how an organization and its employees behave. It is defined by the shared values, behaviors, visions and perceptions among the organization. It is perpetuated by the way employees and leadership treat one another. A strong company culture is easy to identify, even from an outsider. However, company culture can slowly change over time, based on how employees interact and how guidelines and principles are enforced.

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How Meeting Culture is Sapping your Employee’s Strength | Entrepreneur

Posted on June 21, 2023 by knjohn | Leave a comment

Many of us treat our work calendars like a game of Tetris, cleanly lining up one meeting block upon the next with no space in between. Every minute counts, right? And “busy” tends to feel oh-so-productive.

But while it’s hard enough to break out of habits that feel how we think they should, it’s even harder to break free from a company culture that has bought into the meeting vortex fallacy. Here’s a look at why allowing your company culture to give your teams’ brains time to digest after each meeting is crucial.

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If You Listen, Your Employees Will Step Up | Business News Daily

Posted on March 2, 2020 by knjohn | Leave a comment

The best way to make your employees feel important and valued is to listen to them.

Incorporating an employee listening strategy is a great first step to making your employees feel important.

Once you incorporate this strategy, you have to make real changes to the culture of the company.

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Your Company Might Offer High Salaries, But Does It Have Soul? | Entrepreneur

Posted on July 2, 2019 by knjohn | Leave a comment

It’s a well-established stereotype that large-scale companies are about as approachable as a concrete wall. The clichés say it all: Those who “sell out” to work for the “man” become corporate cogs, dedicating their working lives to the daily grind.

The language we’ve assigned to corporate work brings to mind gray cubicles, professional drudgery and drab cultures. Larger enterprises have a reputation for offering excellent salaries and poor experiences — and for some, the tradeoff might not be worth it. For all their perks and benefits, corporations’ lack of approachability may prevent company recruiters from accessing the top-tier talent that should, by all rights, be within their reach.

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Why Every Business Needs to Focus on Culture | PROFITguide.com

Posted on April 17, 2017 by knjohn | Leave a comment

At Mirego headquarters in Quebec City, employees aren’t tied to their desks. They can choose to work in the company’s lounge, settled around a fireplace or to bring in their families and sit with their children, who can choose from boxes of games and toys.

It’s such a cool vibe that a few months ago, Mirego, which designs technological solutions for clients, produced a 200-page publication—a sort of arty company yearbook—filled with employee images, anecdotes and profiles.

It’s all part of president and CEO Albert Dang-Vu’s mission to soften the distinction between work and home. “We want to create a space that people want to go to every morning,” he says. It has worked: Dang-Vu reports an employee retention rate of close to 100% and says almost all new hires come through word of mouth or staff referrals.

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The 3 Skills You Need to Lead Organizational change | Page19

Posted on April 28, 2015 by knjohn | Leave a comment

What happens when a culture is wrong? What does it take to change it? One thing’s for sure: you’ll need a deft leader. A new book by Roger Connors and Tom Smith, Change the Culture, Change the Game, tells how to effect cultural change within organizations.

You hear it all the time. Article after article, blog post after blog post talks about company culture or company DNA. These words were chosen because they represent something intrinsic and nigh-unchangeable. But what happens when culture is wrong? What happens when the DNA is bad?

Well, if you’re a species, you probably go extinct. Ouch. Obviously for a business, this is not an ideal result. So let’s say that you’ve identified a feature in your organization’s culture that needs to change. If it’s really in your culture—in your company DNA—it’s going to take more than a memo to change it.

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