HR Pros, people leaders, owners, executives, and CEO’s spend countless resources these days building culture. Following the likes of Zappos, Google, Lululemon, and more – culture is no longer just a buzzword. It’s an essential business strategy. If your employees love you, your clients will love you. Perform a Google search on organizational culture and you’ll find a handful of well respected articles citing the top and most obvious Culture Killers. From the bad seed employee to poor leadership to a lack of direction; this is the stuff we know through and through to spoil culture. Outside of the obvious, there’s

Bad Culture makes for an unhappy you Company culture and cultural fit can have a huge impact on your day-to-day happiness.  Being able to identify when a culture is turning bad, and what you can do about it are crucial skills for managing your career happiness. Culture is about what people in an organization do, and what meaning is attached to those behaviors.  Which behaviors are appreciated?  Which behaviors are looked down upon?  Which behaviors are celebrated?  Which behaviors are rewarded? How do you identify a Bad Culture When behaviors within a company that are accepted or celebrated lead to conflict