Create Leadership Culture

Create a Leadership Culture that will Support your Strategy and boost the performance of the organization

Your leadership culture determines the group- and individual performance

Culture is not something you are, but something you do with intention and purpose.
A set of living relationships and skills that work together to achieve a common goal.
The cultivation of a culture determines the group- and individual performance.
The culture must support the strategy, because strategy on its own can easily result in stress.
A working environment of anxiety and stress will hinder the acceleration of performance.

Culture originates from the Latin word Cultus which means Care

A culture demonstrates the entire spectrum of support and care in an organization.
Care means watchful- or protective attention, caution, concern, or regard - usually towards an action or situation, often involving people.
Culture can be defined as the shared set of beliefs, thoughts, feelings, and emotions.
It is referred to as invisible behaviour, which results in a set of visible behaviours that give a group its identity and drive.
Culture is therefore the strongest drive for intrinsic motivation, engagement, and ownership
Which in turn results in higher levels of performance and productivity.

As a leader, you will always choose your culture - sometimes even unconsciously.

Do you want:

Even strong cultures have plenty of problems.

But the difference is, that they experience them within strong and secure connections.
They use the challenges as leverage to learn, improve and succeed.

A modern leadership culture is based on intrinsic motivation

Intrinsic motivation is a term used to describe the incentive we feel to complete a task - simply because we find it interesting or enjoyable.
Extrinsic motivation is what we feel when we (have to) complete a task for some external reward or punishment - carrot or stick.
In comparison to both motivators, intrinsic motivation allows us to perform at our very best.
Many managers tend to focus unconsciously only on extrinsic motivation, because it has been the most common to them from the industrial age.
Extrinsic motivation loses soon of its power, the only alternative left is to use pressure - control, fear and anxiety.
Intrinsic motivation is based on human needs and social principles, which makes all the difference.

Group performance has behaviour that communicates one message:

Individual performance has behaviour that communicates one message:

Culture doesn’t depend on who you are, but on what you do.