To increase Culture, 15Five recommends...

  • Communicate the organization’s values.

    Ensure leaders and managers clearly communicate the organization’s values.

  • Include values-based competencies in the Best-Self Review™.

    Encourage People Ops/HR to include competencies in the Best-Self Review™ that are based on company values and tied to specific behaviors.

  • Conduct a positive energy network analysis.

    Encourage People Ops/HR to conduct a positive energy network analysis. Identify and reward the top positive energizers who uplift team members’ moods and leave them feeling elevated, energized, and motivated. Make your workplace kinder.

  • Hold managers accountable for positive energy

    Encourage People Ops/HR to leverage 15Five’s 360° Best-Self Review™ Manager Expectations Recommended Question Template Question #1 to hold managers accountable for positive energy. Question #1: [Name] is a positive energizer. They uplift and boost my mood and leave me feeling elevated, energized and motivated.

  • Clarify the cultural norms

    Ensure People Ops/HR clarifies and documents the values and cultural norms of the organization (e.g., flexible working arrangements).

  • Hire for cultural add

    Encourage People Ops/HR and managers to hire for cultural add versus cultural fit to reduce groupthink. Don’t only hire people who look and think like you.

  • Encourage freedom and flexibility

    Encourage People Ops/HR to develop people practices that grant team members autonomy and allow them to choose when and/or where they work if possible.

Additional resources

Contagious Culture: Show Up, Set The Tone, and Intentionally Create and Organization That Thrives by Anese Cavanaugh (2015)

Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility by Patty McCord (2018)

The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business by Patrick Lencioni (2012)

Joy, Inc.: How We Build a Workplace People Love by Richard Sheridan (2015)

Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World by Brian Robertson (2015)

Reinventing Organizations by Frederic Laloux and Ken Wilber (2014)

Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups by Daniel Coyle (2017)

Bigony, C. (2019). 15Five: Technology aligned to the science of thriving. (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

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