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 Cracking the Code on Culture
Every person has instincts for greatness. We instinctually want to do well, to contribute, and to be included on the winning team. No one needs to teach us to have these desires-they are built into our DNA.
Yet many organizations often become harvesters of politics, power, and control, arrogance and egos that fill organizations with invisible street signs that say "don't go there," "you can't do this," "you don't know that," "save face," "blame" and "protect."
Allowing ourselves to get sucked into territoriality or reactivity can lead to cycles of behavior that erode relationships and take energy away from being productive, healthy, high-performing individuals, teams, and organizations. When we are stuck in territoriality-protecting what we have and fearing loss, we are living at a low level of effectiveness, which ensures we will never achieve our greatest aspirations.
In the face of negativity, positional power struggles, and self-limiting beliefs, our courage and ambition shrivel up and die. Companies lose their spirit, and mediocrity becomes a way of life. Often, without seeing it until the pattern becomes a death spiral, we put out the very flame needed to thrive. Cracking the code on culture change can be much easier than most of us think.
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 Vital Instincts
"Human Beings have Vital Instincts that are hard wired into our DNA and provide us with the codes for how to live healthy, deeply connective, and loving lives with each other."
Vital Instincts give us the intuitive awareness and wisdom to know how to bring together people to form communities, to support each other and to thrive in the face of challenges. Since the beginning of human history, people have demonstrated this set of instincts as they created communities of individuals who traveled across the continents to find food, build homes and create forms of communal life. No one went to school to know how to do this-this wisdom is hardwired into our DNA.
Vital Instincts are the foundation upon which we build our essential wisdom for transforming cultures riddled with politics, power, and dysfunction back into healthy cultures. The secrets are transferable and when practiced have extraordinary power to restore health and growth to an individual, a team, and organization.
The presence of Vital Instincts makes culture change - a topic that has been an eternal mystery - into a science of everyday practice.
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Vital Conversations
Being in sync with others is vital to our health and success. When we fall out of sync, we begin to have beliefs that others don't like us, or we find we fall into protect behavior - and play a subtle or not so subtle role in turning our culture toxic.
There are three principles and practices that transform toxic cultures into vital cultures:
Principle 1: Make beliefs transparent. In a culture where beliefs are transparent, we can collectively monitor the health of our culture, our organization, our teams and our relationships. With this level of awareness in place, we can better recognize and reject belief systems that have a negative impact on our ability to create robust environments full of incredible support, synergies, and expansive possibilities.
Translated into practice this means that we need to learn how to audit our mindsets so that we are always operating out of our healthiest beliefs.
Principle 2: Create a feedback-rich
culture. In a feedback-rich culture, a new level of awareness emerges so that we "don't grow all over each other." Rather than creating environments full of territorialism and competition we learn how to build robust environments full of incredible support, synergies, and expansive possibilities. When we create a feedback- rich culture we enable individuals to establish healthy relationships with their neighbors and coworkers - relationships that are mutually supportive, and where each person achieves their highest aspirations.
Principle 3: Harvest growth and prosperity. To create a healthy culture, we need to recognize the nutrients we need from each other and to provide them so that we don't retreat back into ourselves and become self-serving or I-centric. When we become aware of the key nutrients for growth and development, we are more equipped to release these nutrients into our culture and thrive on them. When we do this, we build robust, we-centric environments full of incredible support, synergies, and expansive possibilities.
Translated into practical terms, this means that we need to be mindful when we are creating an internal view of the world that separates us from others. To become healthy we need to turn outside to others for support, engagement, and nutrition. In a healthy culture we see people engaged with each other building strong partnerships, collaborating, innovating and synergizing with each other to grow to their next level.
Recognizing that we all have Vital Instincts is the first step in understanding how to create positive, healthy environments for growth and generativity. For more information about Vital Instincts, and Vital Conversations, please go to our website and see links to purchase Creating WE: Change I-Thinking to We Thinking & Build a Healthy Thriving Organization.
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Getting to the next level of greatness depends on the quality of the culture, which depends on the quality of relationships, which depend on the quality of conversations.
Everything happens through conversation!
Judith E. Glaser
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