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    Establish your company culture

    Medium effort

    High impact

    In an age when the reason people stay in a job is shifting away from pay and towards cause, establishing a company culture and the values it lives by help entrench some of the key reasons your people work for your business. Let them take a part in helping form them and they will end up driving key improvements in other areas of the business.

    • We’ve designed our action plans to be completed in the order of steps laid out and explained why each step is important
    • Customising your action plan lets you set your own completion dates, assign tasks to others and get notifications
    • Helpful tools are provided for certain steps while a tracking metric at the end will help you determine the long-term success of your effort
    • A downloadable PDF version of each action plan is available if you’d like to compete it offline
    What's involved? Ways to use this action plan Measuring impact
    1

    Spend some time learning about how other businesses have gone about creating a great company culture

    Impact: low

    Why will this help?

    Learning from the experiences and lessons of fellow business leaders is the best way to direct your own improvement efforts.

    A great culture doesn’t mean blowing the budget

    The average full-time British employee will spend over 3,500 days at work during their lifetime, so it’s vital that business leaders promote and encourage a healthy and happy working culture to keep staff motivated during working hours.
    2

    Learn about what commonly contributes to good and bad company cultures

    Impact: medium

    Why will this help?

    Building a positive company culture increases motivation and productivity, and reduces staff turnover. But don't try and go it alone – see what proven strategies have worked across different industries.

    How to build a positive company culture
    3

    Define what you want your company culture and values to look like, noting where you need to make changes or improvements

    Impact: high

    Why will this help?

    This exercise will help you start to define the behaviours, attitudes and people you want working in the business. Getting your staff involved will give them a better chance of standing the test of time.

    4

    Align your new cultures and values in a set of statements that help your staff understand what key behaviours you and other leaders within the business want to encourage

    Impact: high

    Why will this help?

    By defining your company's core values, you're setting expectations that benefit everyone.

    Defining your company's core values
    5

    Establish rewards and incentives programme to celebrate members of staff that live and breathe the company's values and regularly check in to make sure existing and new hires understand what the values and culture are

    Impact: high

    Why will this help?

    While most of your employees will be more than happy to start living by a set of values they helped create, rewards and incentives will help take it to the next level and let them know that being proactive has its benefits.

    What can I do with this Action Plan?

    Start this Action Plan

    Add some extra information to this plan and we’ll help you get it done.

    • We’ve designed our action plans to be completed in the order of steps laid out and explained why each step is important
    • Customising your action plan lets you set your own completion dates, assign tasks to others and get notifications
    • Helpful tools are provided for certain steps while a tracking metric at the end will help you determine the long-term success of your effort
    • A downloadable PDF version of each action plan is available if you’d like to compete it offline

    Download and print

    Get a printable template for this Action Plan, fill it in with some target dates, and share it with your team. Pin it on the wall where everyone can see it.

    Get the printable Action Plan

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    How will I know if my action plan is working?

    Staff satisfaction survey results

    Staff satisfaction surveys help gauge sentiment at regular intervals

    Why this metric?

    Whether gathered anonymously or not, staff satisfaction surveys help gauge the sentiment of your people as changes are made and impacts felt.

    How do I start tracking?

    Use an online survey to get feedback from members of staff three and six months after making changes to see what impact it has had.