Jamie Notter

OCTOBER 20, 2017

It’s just an offshoot of WorkXO—we created it as a separate company to house the consulting services that we’ve been developing around the Genome. Charlie’s going to continue running WorkXO as the software/assessment side of the business, which needs a different kind of attention and development right now to take it to the next level.

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Jamie Notter

OCTOBER 30, 2018

They tell you all the aspects they wish were present in your culture, and probably complain about some of the problems they now face, and you end up developing a list of ideas that capture what you think would be an awesome culture: collaboration, quality, innovation, integrity, etc.

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Jamie Notter

OCTOBER 4, 2013

So this reminded me of a section in Humanize where we write about personal development. ” In short, if we want powerful human organizations, then we need individual humans who have developed and grown enough as human beings to be able to handle complexity and nuance. Books and Reading Individual Development'

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Jamie Notter

JULY 30, 2018

Particularly as you’re launching a culture change effort, develop the habit of telling everyone what you’re going to do, then tell them what you’re doing, and then tell them what you’ve done. And the team always has someone from the senior team on it. Over-communicate. And then repeat. Come up with creative ways to tell the culture story.

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Jamie Notter

DECEMBER 17, 2019

But if you want to get serious, you’ll need to develop it as a practice and a system. In our model, we identify three distinct levels, and each has its own set of work: culture as a concept, culture as a practice, and culture as a system. A lot of organizations have tackled the concept part, often in the form of core values statements.

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Jamie Notter

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

I’m offering a new half-day workshop for staff: The Foundations of a Collaborative Culture: A Professional Development Workshop for Staff. Announcements Conflict Culture Individual Development' This 3-hour workshop will build your staff’s skills and help them to collaborate better internally. Contact me to schedule a workshop.

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Jamie Notter

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In the third phase of our work with culture consulting clients, we help them develop a “playbook” of action steps that will start to intentionally bring their culture in greater alignment with what makes them successful as an organization. When they get to this stage, I can tell they are feeling some pressure.

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Jamie Notter

AUGUST 9, 2018

Or should they let multiple cultures develop inside the organization? Nearly every organization we work with confronts an important question at some point in their culture journey: Should they strive for one, uniform culture? The answer (as frustrating as this can be) is “both.”.

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Jamie Notter

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

For example, they assume that if a community loses a big factory that was essentially the only source of employment, that people would then move to a new area where there were jobs or develop new skills in order to start a new career. But that’s not what happens.

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Jamie Notter

JANUARY 7, 2015

Change Individual Development Leadership' I’m reminded of a nice article by Joe Rominecki in Associations now that points out that associations are all stressing about their membership models and how best to provide value to members, yet they are also NOT actually spending time researching their market. Focus, people.

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Jamie Notter

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

But instead of analyzing the situation and commanding the changes from on high, she actually became “radically inclusive” by soliciting input from 30,000 employees in the process of developing a plan. Change Humanize Individual Development Leadership' And it changed her. Are you up for that?

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Jamie Notter

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

They’ll be more effective when the work they are doing connects to their own personal growth and development. Individual Development Leadership Managing People' People will work harder when they are able to be their whole selves. People are at their best when they are fulfilling their destinies. image credit.

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Jamie Notter

DECEMBER 17, 2019

But if you want to get serious, you’ll need to develop it as a practice and a system. In our model, we identify three distinct levels, and each has its own set of work: culture as a concept, culture as a practice, and culture as a system. A lot of organizations have tackled the concept part, often in the form of core values statements.

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Jamie Notter

MAY 17, 2018

This is the part where the rubber meets the road—where they have to develop a list of things they are going to propose to management that will move their culture in a direction that is aligned with what makes them successful. I’m working with several clients right now on the “Playbook” stage of our culture consulting work.

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Jamie Notter

JULY 18, 2013

But why can’t we build more trust in that relationship, and why can’t we make it more intentionally about mutual support and development, rather than every person for themselves? The article suggests that you develop personal, mutually beneficial tours. Humanize Individual Development Managing People' image credit.

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Jamie Notter

JULY 8, 2014

It’s a quick read, particularly since it’s written as a story (though to be honest, Patrick Lencioni is better at this art form; this one gets a little slow at times), and it is gets into an important aspect of leadership in today’s world: that as individuals the bar is being raised when it comes to our development and awareness.

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Jamie Notter

AUGUST 20, 2014

Culture That Works is where you’ll find information about my consulting and all the books, ebooks, and other products that Maddie and I are developing. Part of our long term plan is to develop more products to help leaders (at all levels) create stronger cultures. Consulting. Change is good. Announcements'

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Jamie Notter

MARCH 28, 2018

Once we set these priorities and develop some awesome actions to make them a reality, we are likely to discover some new problems, which might have us shifting our priorities. But it’s important to understand that the priorities are, by definition, kind of temporary. These are the priorities right NOW. They may change down the road.

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Jamie Notter

JUNE 22, 2018

an intranet) across the whole organization, are starting to develop clearer career paths system-wide. It will be a while before those plays really bear fruit, but these kinds of plays complement the “making it real” plays—we call them the “making it permanent” plays.

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Jamie Notter

DECEMBER 5, 2017

While every culture is unique, I’m noticing that when it comes to Markers like Agility, Collaboration, and Transparency, many organizations seem to be working hard on what I call the “human” side of those Markers, but they haven’t put quite as much work into developing the systems or processes to support them.

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Jamie Notter

AUGUST 23, 2019

training and development?). The challenge with that is that you’ll have to give the culture management responsibilities to someone who is already doing another sub-function within people ops (talent management? That’s fine when you’re just starting out, I guess, but as your culture work grows, where are you going to put it?

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Jamie Notter

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

How professional education in the industry or profession your association represents can help association staff develop a greater understanding and appreciation for the world of your members. Bringing people with industry experience into our office and into our planning processes.

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Jamie Notter

OCTOBER 5, 2015

When your people can be themselves at work, feel a deep connection between the work they’re doing and their own development, and consistently do what they’re best at, then performance goes through the roof. The potential of a human-centered organization is dependent on the humans inside the organization reaching their own potential.

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Jamie Notter

JANUARY 12, 2015

Generational Diversity Individual Development' Regardless of what you think about the Millennials, they are moving into positions of power at the same time as a tectonic shift in business, so let’s follow their lead and venture out into the sunshine together.

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Jamie Notter

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Individual Development Learning' So don’t get too comfortable getting your ideas confirmed. Find people outside of your “bubble” to talk to periodically and stretch your thinking.

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Jamie Notter

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

For example, they have an anonymous feedback system, and they also seem to have developed a forced ranking system where the lowest ranked employees lose their jobs every year. Remember, many parts of your culture will develop unintentionally, but that does not make them any less real. But here's what also (probably) happened.

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Jamie Notter

JANUARY 19, 2018

At least they need those things if they want to grow and develop. It restricts us to what we already know. In short, it’s not human. Humans need space. Humans need down time. Humans need play. We have research on this, folks. The same applies to human organizations.

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Jamie Notter

MAY 20, 2015

In the 1940s, psychologist Kurt Lewin and others developed the new field of Organization Development, which focused on group dynamics and organizational learning.

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Jamie Notter

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Humanize Individual Development Leadership Learning' Part of what you’re going to learn about here is retail and part of what you’re going to learn is about life and interpersonal skills. It’s everyone’s role at Bloomingdale’s to make sure these kids are learning. And it’s everyone’s responsibility to keep learning.

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Jamie Notter

JULY 7, 2014

Early in my association career I, myself, was exposed to a culture that taught that our in-person meetings were the one definite place where we could interact directly with our members, and that seeing to all the event logistics on their behalf was integral to developing an understanding of their preferences and personalities.

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Jamie Notter

MARCH 2, 2012

I spoke this week at Avectra’s User and Developer Conference ( AUDC ). Individual Development. Designed & Developed by Dave Sabol using Thesis. Leadership insight.right when you need it. Making Your Business More Agile. Posted March 2, 2012. in Change , Humanize - 1 comment. It was awesome conference. Announcements.

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Jamie Notter

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Clearly developing core values is a box that many organizations feel needs to be checked when doing culture work, but are they really that valuable? My post last week about Core Values got quite a bit of attention (thank you for the mention, SmartBrief!), Do they generate the results we're looking for culturally speaking?

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Jamie Notter

JANUARY 31, 2012

This weekend I taught a three-hour session on Systems to students in Georgetown’s Organization Development and Change Leadership Certificate program. Individual Development. Designed & Developed by Dave Sabol using Thesis. Posted January 31, 2012. in Change , Leadership - 3 comments. Announcements. Books and Reading.

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Jamie Notter

MARCH 25, 2019

We’re developing a pilot project to help organizations expand access within their culture and adjust their practices accordingly. So the real challenge is not the office design, it’s the changes in approach and behaviors you’ll need to instill in your people in order take advantage of that new access.

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Jamie Notter

JULY 24, 2014

But in this one day per week, they could develop something new. Things like Gmail, which now generates a significant amount of profit for Google, were developed during 20% time, as an email interface simply did not connect to Google’s core business back then.

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Jamie Notter

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

So to be clear, I'm not "against" core values, and if you have them, or are developing them, I'm not criticizing here. It involves a deep understanding of what drives success, as well as knowledge of the specific capacities your organization needs to develop in order to achieve that success. Actually amazing your customers (wow!)

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Jamie Notter

JULY 7, 2015

You don’t sit down one day and develop your culture, and then turn around the following week and develop your strategy, hoping that the two end up being compatible. Culture is powerful, and making the assumption that you can easily overcome its effect will surely come back to haunt you.

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