Unnatural Territory: Why The Workplace Can Be Like Riding a Snowmobile in The Desert 🏜️
Behavior is influenced by the culture, values, and structure of your organization.
These elements are deeply embedded in your organization’s fabric, and your team's behavior is shaped by the norms and expectations established by the company culture.
So, how do you bridge the gap between the hard skills that help you to accomplish tasks with the soft skills, critical for promoting positive change and motivation? How do you meet people where they’re at so you can?
My guest, Kelly Schaefbauer, knows that’s just what you have to figure out if you want to create something bigger than the sum of its parts.
Check out this episode to hear about:
Why the workplace is often like a snowmobile in the desert - not our natural environment
The responsibility and satisfaction of knowing you can do something to enhance everyone’s experience within an organization, not just the people at the top
And why it all starts with clarity
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Eye Opening Insights:
[00:11:19] “You know, about, um, workplace environments a about it being about the people. I love his analogy about snowmobile in the desert.”
[00:11:37] “You know, that it's, it's people are put into these work environments where we're just not naturally meant for that. Mm-hmm. Um, and so it really got me thinking about in combination with my primary guru is Elliot Jacques, um, who wrote the book Requisite Organization that was really. First drill, deep dive into, um, management and operations”
[00:11:59] “And he had a quote that when I was kind of getting into this that really clicked for me about, you know, if you wanna change the behavior of the people in the organization, you need to change the organization both in, in that structure and then the manual managerial leadership practices there that it's up to you as a business owner to take that responsibility and that made it something that it's, it's a little bit scary that that responsibility of those people's, you know, they're there 8 to 10 hours a day that's on you for them to have a fulfilling Satisfying, you know, experience there. But I like the idea that I have something I can do about that in that, and that's where we started the idea of clarity, you know, that, that, that first step in it, and even the Gallup Q 12 poll talks about, number one is clear expectations start there, and there, there really wasn't, you know, some of the, the, the EEO S are starting to get there now.”
Grab your coffee, listen to our interview, and then let us know in the comments: How can you apply these lessons to your own organization?
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About Kelly
When you have a trusted management team, everyone can focus on their strengths. A strengths focused organization can scale smoothly.
We've developed the 6-practices of structured operations that engage, unite and empower
“The most far reaching, dramatic and rapid changes in behavior of individuals in an organization can be achieved by changes in the organization – both in structure and in managerial leadership practices.”
-Elliott Jacques
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