Company Culture Initiatives
Creating a Company Culture Workshop Plan
This prompt helps HR teams design a workshop to enhance and promote a positive company culture. It focuses on aligning employees with core values, fostering engagement, and building a unified organizational identity.
Responsible:
HR/Recruiting
Accountable, Informed or Consulted:
HR, Leadership, Operations
THE PREP
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Define the company’s core values and ensure they are clearly communicated to employees.
Collaborate with leaders to gather stories and examples of how the culture has positively influenced the organization.
Prepare materials, such as slide decks, handouts, or interactive tools, for the workshop.
THE PROMPT
Help design a workshop plan to reinforce company culture at [specific software startup]. This workshop should engage employees in understanding and aligning with the company’s core values. Focus on:
Core Values Exploration: Recommending activities, such as, ‘Facilitate group discussions or brainstorming sessions where employees share examples of how they see the company’s values in action.’
Interactive Team Exercises: Suggesting collaborative elements, like, ‘Organize team-building games that reflect cultural themes, such as problem-solving challenges tied to innovation or collaboration.’
Leadership Involvement: Proposing leadership participation, such as, ‘Have leaders share personal stories or milestones where company culture played a pivotal role in success.’
Cultural Vision Alignment: Including future-oriented activities, like, ‘Encourage teams to co-create a cultural roadmap by identifying ways to live out the values in daily work.’
Feedback and Reflection: Recommending post-workshop actions, such as, ‘Collect feedback on the workshop and ask participants how they plan to embody the values moving forward.’
Provide a comprehensive plan for the workshop that fosters alignment with the company culture while strengthening engagement and collaboration. If additional details about the company’s values or current culture initiatives are needed, ask clarifying questions to refine the workshop.
Bonus Add-On Prompts
Propose strategies for incorporating remote or hybrid team members into company culture workshops.
Suggest methods for reinforcing company values through quarterly follow-up activities.
Highlight techniques for measuring the impact of culture workshops on employee engagement.
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SUGGESTIONS TO IMPROVE
Focus on workshops for specific departments, like engineering or marketing, to tailor cultural discussions.
Include tips for using digital tools like Miro or Zoom to facilitate virtual culture-building workshops.
Propose ways to incorporate cultural diversity and inclusion into workshop activities.
Highlight tools for tracking engagement and participation during the workshop.
Add suggestions for integrating employee input into future culture initiatives.
WHEN TO USE
To reinforce company values and foster alignment across teams.
During onboarding or team offsites to immerse new hires in the company culture.
When addressing gaps in employee engagement or cultural understanding.
WHEN NOT TO USE
For casual team events without a clear focus on cultural values.
If the company’s core values are undefined or unclear.