It’s easy to throw rocks!

Staff surveys are full of opportunities for people to throw rocks – at poor managers, at out-of-touch executive, at negative work colleagues, at abusive clients – and in many cases not without good cause.

But let’s step back for a moment and look at “the things that unite us”.

What are the most powerful drivers of social cohesion in organisational life?

Here are 3:

  1. The people you work with - the connections and friendships and how this can energise your culture

  2. A shared and purposeful vision of the future - and how this creates a goal for your culture to reach towards

  3. Shared values and codes of behaviour - and how this creates structure within your culture about desirable and undesirable choices and behaviours.