Your company writes the values.
Your leaders write the curriculum.
Every organization teaches an unspoken curriculum, and your people are actively studying it. It’s written by what your leaders do every day, most of them with no idea they’re writing it. Whether it matches the values painted on the HQ walls is the real question.
Class is always in session.
Culture is taught through what leaders
How a behavior becomes a culture.
In a meeting, a promotion, a silence.
They work out what it means for them.
The safest move gets copied downward.
Not the poster. The pattern.
Drifting is normal. Staying off course is optional.
Every published value holds a magnifying glass to leadership behavior rather than substituting for it. When words and behavior conflict, people trust the behavior, and the organization ends up with two cultures: one that is publicized, and one that is used.
They know they belong. But do they know they matter?
Belonging is being part of the group. Mattering is knowing your contribution has value, and feeling valued for that contribution.
What if work made us less lonely instead of more?
I don’t think all of that is about the absence of people. Some of it is the absence of significance.
people worldwide report feeling lonely.
of employees say they felt lonely a lot of yesterday.
Let’s see what your culture is teaching.
You don’t need someone to arrive and tell you everything you’re doing wrong. Sometimes you need help seeing what’s working, and where a small correction would do a lot.