Better At Work with Cathal Quinlan

How To Fix Toxic Work Culture with Colin D. Ellis

Better At Work with Cathal Quinlan

Show Notes

In episode 44, we welcome workplace culture expert Colin D. Ellis, an award-winning keynote speaker and the best-selling author of Culture Fix: How to Create a Great Place to Work and Detox your Culture: Deliver results, retain staff, and strengthen your organisation's reputation. Colin and I discuss why a great organisational culture is so important - ensuring people can flourish no matter what they do - and why it so often goes wrong. We unpack: The three stages of toxic culture - combative, corrosive, and harmful. Why so many businesses are shifting to a ‘behaviours-first' management approach. The key factors for designing culture change strategy. Annette Sloan and I sum-up the three biggest takeaways from my conversation with Colin, and we answer a listener's question from Emily about difficulties interviewing with a colleague at her organisation. Tune in to learn how to apply behavioural science frameworks and tools to any problem you, your team or organisation are facing. Get in touch: [email protected] or betteratwork.net Get in touch on Instagram: @betteratwork_ Get in touch on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cathal-quinlan/ Send us a question or leave us a voicemail: betteratwork.net/contact-us/ Get the newsletter: betteratwork.net About Guest Colin D. Ellis is an award-winning international speaker and highly sought after culture change facilitator and project management expert, who works with a global client base - including Red Bull, Microsoft, KPMG and Cisco – across a wide range of sectors to help them build and maintain great working cultures. He is also the best-selling author of four books including The Project Book and Culture Fix. Learn more about Colin at: https://www.colindellis.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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