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Admit it. The first time you heard the phrase “Hoopla Team®“—maybe last week, or last month, or ten seconds ago, in that headline—you rolled your eyes. Oh you did so.
But the eyes stop rolling when people hear about the remarkable turnarounds happening across the country when leaders get serious about the transformation of their workplace culture—a transformation that has the Hoopla Team smack dab in the center of it. (more…)
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When’s the last time you heard someone say, “The problem with working here is I’m just appreciated way too much?” Healthy cultures have appreciation and celebration as their cultural backbone. They create an environment in which everyone oohs and aahs over each other’s successes and contributions.
Notice I said EVERYONE, not just managers. You might convince yourself that the manager who high-fives the top salespeople is just doing his or her job. But once you get celebration and congratulation flowing from peer to peer, you know you’ve created a celebration culture.
So how do you get there? By creating rituals of celebration. (more…)
I’ve got to tell you – I’m a little mixed about this whole Wells Fargo thing.
People are having a lot of fun right now waggling their fingers at corporate overspending. The Germans (who have a word for everything – remember Fahrvergnugen?) have a word for this kind of fun: Schadenfreude, or delighting in somebody else’s misfortune.
And yes, it’s fun to point and laugh at people like John Thain, driving their companies into multibillion-dollar nosedives while buying $1400 wastecans and $35,000 antique toilets.
But Wells Fargo’s supposed sin is quite different.
In case you haven’t heard, they’ve taken quite a flogging in the press and in Congress for planning to fly their top people to Vegas for a big recognition event after receiving bailout money.
Sure, the planned event was pretty lavish – just the latest in a long Wells Fargo tradition that has included wine-tasting trips, helicopter junkets, and even a private Jimmy Buffett concert in the Bahamas for a thousand employees. The Vegas trip was to include twelve days and nights on the Strip.
Now it’s been called off.
So why are my feelings mixed? (more…)