{"id":25213,"date":"2022-12-12T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T17:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/?p=25213"},"modified":"2022-12-09T11:14:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T19:14:39","slug":"organizational-culture-limiting-hybrid-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/organizational-culture-limiting-hybrid-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Your Organizational Culture Limiting Your Hybrid Success?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s easy to overfocus your return to office and hybrid work planning on space because it\u2019s so visible. But ignoring an invisible factor \u2013 organizational culture \u2013 can undermine the best plans.<\/p>\n

In fact, culture has been called \u201cthe top predictor of workplace satisfaction<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.\u201d And recent research by Gallup found that companies with strong cultures ohttps:\/\/hbr.org\/2017\/01\/what-matters-more-to-your-workforce-than-moneyutperform competitors by up to 33%.<\/p>\n

Yet even before the pandemic, Gartner<\/a><\/strong><\/span> reported that while HR leaders felt they knew the culture needed to drive business performance in their organization, only 30% were confident that their desired culture was evident in their actual culture.<\/p>\n

What may have been working when almost everyone spent most of their time in the office won\u2019t work in a hybrid world. It\u2019s no surprise then, that Gartner found 68% of executive teams are reevaluating their company\u2019s culture for virtual and hybrid work.<\/p>\n

What is organizational culture?<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Culture can be described as the set of collective assumptions within an organization that guides attitudes, behaviors, and ways of working. It outlines how your company gets things done.<\/p>\n

In the traditional office, a lot of behaviors that people thought defined culture were tied to the physical space and the activities that happened there. But culture isn\u2019t a game room where different teams participate in ping-pong tournaments. It\u2019s not free lunch on Tuesdays and Thursdays, \u201cno-meeting\u201d Wednesdays, or quarterly Friday beer bashes in the parking lot.<\/p>\n

Culture is the values and assumptions that these activities \u2013 and the company\u2019s workflow, collaboration style, and how colleagues are expected to treat each other \u2013 should align to. And over the past year, the business world has seen the very public struggle as different organizations have reflected assumptions from \u201cpeople can only be effective if they\u2019re in the office\u201d to \u201cour people are so productive from wherever they are that we\u2019re closing the office.\u201d<\/p>\n

Most organizations have settled on a hybrid working model that falls between these extremes, making it essential to reshape their culture for their new reality.<\/p>\n

The power of connection<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The secret power of a strong culture is that it makes employees feel connected to the company and to each other. That\u2019s good for brand, good for the bottom line, and good for employee productivity, happiness, and retention.<\/p>\n

But a December 2021 poll by Gartner found that only 1 in 4 hybrid\/remote knowledge workers felt connected to their organization\u2019s culture.<\/p>\n

Clearly, it\u2019s time to create cultures better suited to our current working world. And it\u2019s time to acknowledge leadership\u2019s role in creating and sustaining a successful culture.<\/p>\n

A once-in-a lifetime opportunity<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Achieving this kind of change requires a shared vision and direction that moves beyond tactics to take a clear stand on what the hybrid culture is, so that people know what they can rely on. If reinventing an organization\u2019s culture is a significant challenge, it\u2019s also a unique opportunity to redefine the business.<\/p>\n

Bill Schaninger, a Senior Partner at McKinsey recently pointed out that \u201cit\u2019s rare in a leader\u2019s lifetime to have such a clean drop for reshaping how you run the place.\u201d<\/p>\n

To help you make the most of this unprecedented moment,<\/p>\n

Read The Journey to Hybrid Working: Hybrid Heaven or Hell?<\/a><\/span> for key considerations in creating a culture that supports hybrid success.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s easy to overfocus your return to office and hybrid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1724,508],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25214,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25213\/revisions\/25214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}