EP067 - Creating a Thriving Company Culture with Kate Wood & Ian Luckett

<div style="font-weight: 400;"> <p><span data-contrast="auto">First things first, I mention how Kate and I met which was during the previous Managed Service Summit in London where I attended her keynote speech and within about 10 minutes of Kate’s presentation I said, “You are coming to my podcast, so many more people need to hear about this.”, so here we are.</span><span data-ccp-props= "{"201341983":0,"335559740":259}"> </span></p> </div> <div style="font-weight: 400;"> <p><span data-contrast="auto">To start with, Kate shares a little bit more about her, her career history, and how she became to be a company culture expert which now offers culture as a service to organisations. She shares how she helps businesses in their employee engagement to make sure all their employees feel valued and cared for, as well as communication with leadership teams.</span><span data-ccp-props= "{"201341983":0,"335559740":259}"> </span></p> </div> <div style="font-weight: 400;"> <p><span data-contrast="auto">I then asked Kate what company culture is? </span><span data-ccp-props= "{"201341983":0,"335559740":259}"> </span></p> </div> <div style="font-weight: 400;"> <p><span data-contrast="auto">Kate says company culture is identifying who you are as a business, the behaviours and values you have as an organisation, from the leadership team right down to every single person in your business, that’s your culture. She then continues to explain why company culture matters.</span><span data-ccp-props= "{"201341983":0,"335559740":259}"> </span></p> </div> <div style="font-weight: 400;"> <p><span data-contrast="auto">Kate and I then weigh in on how the words “change” and “progress” differ. We then eventually agree that it’s up to the person who looks at those two words and assess what those words mean to them. We also tackle communication within team members and why it plays an important role in people understanding what “change” and “progress” mean.</span><span data-ccp-props= "{"201341983":0,"335559740":259}"> </span></p> </div> <div sty