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Posts in Work Culture

Improve Your Hiring Process to Attract Talent

Improve Your Hiring Process to Attract Talent

So many companies have a horrible hiring process, here's some ways to improve it (4 min).

#culturedrop, Leadership, Work Culture, Hiring & Firing, Interviews, Q + AGalen EmanueleOctober 8, 2024Shift Yes, Galen Emanuele, team culture, teams, eq, Culture Drop, #culturedrop

Zero Tolerance Policy for Office Gossip & Badmouthing

Zero Tolerance Policy for Office Gossip & Badmouthing

Gossip and trash talk is cancerous to workplace culture (3 min).

#culturedrop, Leadership, Work Culture, Conflict, Firing People, Accountability, Team BuildingGalen EmanueleOctober 1, 2024Shift Yes, Galen Emanuele, team culture, teams, eq, Culture Drop, #culturedrop

5 Tips for Better Brainstorming Meetings

5 Tips for Better Brainstorming Meetings

A handful of useful tips and tricks for more effective brainstorming meetings (5 min).

#culturedrop, Leadership, Work Culture, Being a Better Employee, Communication, Diversity & Inclusion, Innovation, ProductivityGalen EmanueleSeptember 24, 2024Shift Yes, Galen Emanuele, team culture, teams, eq, Culture Drop, #culturedrop

A Simple Way to Improve Accountability & Team Culture

A Simple Way to Improve Accountability & Team Culture

It makes so much sense that you'll wonder why you hadn't thought of it before (4 min).

#culturedrop, Accountability, Hiring & Firing, Leadership, Professional Development, Team Building, Work CultureGalen EmanueleSeptember 17, 2024Shift Yes, Galen Emanuele, team culture, teams, eq, Culture Drop, #culturedrop

Can't Be Here for the Haters

Can't Be Here for the Haters

We can't run teams (and our lives) catering to the loudest negative voices (4 min).

#culturedrop, Mindset, Conflict, Being a Better Employee, Work Culture, Emotional Intelligence, Feedback, LeadershipGalen EmanueleSeptember 3, 2024Shift Yes, Galen Emanuele, team culture, teams, eq, Culture Drop, #culturedrop

A List of Accountability Green Flags

A List of Accountability Green Flags

11 traits of people that you want on your team, as leaders, and in your life (5 min).

#culturedrop, Accountability, Hiring & Firing, Leadership, Work Culture, Mindset, Team Building, InterviewsGalen EmanueleJune 18, 2024Shift Yes, Galen Emanuele, team culture, teams, eq, Culture Drop, #culturedrop

How to Fire Bad Employees

How to Fire Bad Employees

How to remove bad apples (6 min).

#culturedrop, Accountability, Firing People, Hiring & Firing, Leadership, Work CultureGalen EmanueleJune 11, 2024Shift Yes, Galen Emanuele, team culture, teams, eq, Culture Drop, #culturedrop

Don't Punish People

Don't Punish People

It's a real bad look to drill holes in other people's boats (2 min).

#culturedrop, Emotional Intelligence, Being a Better Employee, Accountability, Work Culture, Conflict, Career Development, MindsetGalen EmanueleMay 28, 2024Shift Yes, Galen Emanuele, team culture, teams, eq, Culture Drop, #culturedrop

Dealing With Someone Who Complains About Others

Dealing With Someone Who Complains About Others

Some tools to help redirect and guide someone who's complaining about others (5 min).

#culturedrop, Emotional Intelligence, Being a Better Employee, Accountability, Work Culture, Leadership, ConflictGalen EmanueleMay 21, 2024Shift Yes, Galen Emanuele, team culture, teams, eq, Culture Drop, #culturedrop

Consistency Builds Trust & Confidence

Consistency Builds Trust & Confidence

Trust and confidence in ourselves and others doesn't fall from the sky (3 min).

#culturedrop, Mindset, Emotional Intelligence, Being a Better Employee, Accountability, Professional Development, Work Culture, LeadershipGalen EmanueleMay 14, 2024Shift Yes, Galen Emanuele, team culture, teams, eq, Culture Drop, #culturedrop

How Workplaces Are Like Romantic Relationships

How Workplaces Are Like Romantic Relationships

If it ain't good, you don't owe anyone to stay in it - which goes both ways (3 min).

#culturedrop, Mindset, Being a Better Employee, Work Culture, Career Development, Hiring & FiringGalen EmanueleApril 23, 2024Shift Yes, Galen Emanuele, team culture, teams, eq, Culture Drop, #culturedrop

Three Onboarding Ideas Every Company Should Use

Three Onboarding Ideas Every Company Should Use

Three great onboarding ideas to start every new employee’s experience off right (4 min).

#culturedrop, Work Culture, Hiring & Firing, Innovation, Team BuildingGalen EmanueleMarch 5, 2024Shift Yes, Galen Emanuele, team culture, teams, eq, Culture Drop, #culturedrop

Low Accountability Ruins Company Culture

Low Accountability Ruins Company Culture

A quick-hit on culture and hypocrisy in the workplace (1 min).

#culturedrop, Accountability, Work Culture, LeadershipGalen EmanueleFebruary 27, 2024Shift Yes, Galen Emanuele, team culture, teams, eq, Culture Drop, #culturedrop

3 Ways to Have Better Team Meetings

3 Ways to Have Better Team Meetings

3 simple tips for having more effective team meetings (3 min).

#culturedrop, Communication, Remote Work, Work Culture, Leadership, ProductivityGalen EmanueleFebruary 13, 2024Shift Yes, Galen Emanuele, team culture, teams, eq, Culture Drop, #culturedrop

Accountability Culture: High Bar, High Reward

Accountability Culture: High Bar, High Reward

The perfect recipe to balance exceptional employee experience and awesome teams (4 min).

#culturedrop, Accountability, Work Culture, Team Building, Productivity, LeadershipGalen EmanueleDecember 12, 2023Shift Yes, Galen Emanuele, team culture, teams, eq, Culture Drop, #culturedrop

How to Build a Business Case for Culture

How to Build a Business Case for Culture

Answering: "How do I get leadership to care about prioritizing culture?" (5 min)

#culturedrop, Leadership, Communication, Mindset, Work Culture, Navigating ChangeGalen EmanueleNovember 28, 2023Shift Yes, Galen Emanuele, team culture, teams, eq, Culture Drop, #culturedrop

Values Unify, Behaviors Clarify - Workplace Culture

Values Unify, Behaviors Clarify - Workplace Culture

Taking a closer look at the difference between values and behaviors (2 min).

#culturedrop, Work Culture, Team Building, Mindset, LeadershipGalen EmanueleNovember 7, 2023Shift Yes, Galen Emanuele, team culture, teams, eq, Culture Drop, #culturedrop

Culture is a Verb: You Are What You Do

Culture is a Verb: You Are What You Do

The ultimate case of actions speak louder than words (4 min).

#culturedrop, Communication, Work Culture, Accountability, Team BuildingGalen EmanueleOctober 17, 2023Shift Yes, Galen Emanuele, team culture, teams, eq, Culture Drop, #culturedrop

5 Things to Understand About Gen Z

5 Things to Understand About Gen Z

How organizations can engage them in a meaningful way (6 min).

#culturedrop, Communication, Work Culture, Diversity & InclusionGalen EmanueleOctober 10, 2023Shift Yes, Galen Emanuele, team culture, teams, eq, Culture Drop, #culturedrop

Is it Toxic to Say "We're a Family" at Work?

Is it Toxic to Say "We're a Family" at Work?

My two cents and perspective on this possibly touchy convo (4 min).

#culturedrop, Communication, Work Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Emotional IntelligenceGalen EmanueleOctober 3, 2023Shift Yes, Galen Emanuele, team culture, teams, eq, Culture Drop, #culturedrop