COLIN ON CULTURE
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Behaviour is contagious
What are you spreading?
Culture starts and ends at the top
Leaders are always accountable for employee conditions
The three types of toxic leaders
Spotting the serial offenders
The brilliant jerk
Left unchecked they will destroy everything
2025 culture review
The culture past and future
Culture Speak - Part Five (video)
How culture can ruin lives, results and reputations
The karma police are coming
Those that abuse power will face a reckoning
The three levels of toxic culture
Understanding the toxic culture conditions
Culture in the Courtroom: Are you next?
Leaders who don’t build safety could find themselves in court
How to bust your bureaucracy!
How to rid yourself of the processes and power structures that hold your culture back
No-one should fear going to work
Work should be safe and respectful, always
Meetings are killing your culture
How to stop how you meet from killing the way you work
The 'grey zone' of workplace behaviour
Determining what's appropriate behaviour in the workplace and what's not
The Dark Triad Toxic Leaders
Exposing the harm of narcissistic, psychopathic, and Machiavellian traits in the workplace
Leading on and off the field
Sports is starting to take culture seriously and if teams want to see sustained performance it’s important that more follow St Helens’ lead.
It’ll never be us
Toxic culture is every organisation’s biggest risk. Toxic cultures harm humans, results and reputations. But they are preventable.
Subcultures the catalyst for change
By understanding and nurturing subcultures, organisations can drive culture change and improve overall employee engagement
Toxic culture and UFOs
In almost all cases of reports into toxic cultures, the first response from senior leaders has either been to deny the existence of toxic culture or else to pretend that what’s obvious to everyone else, isn’t obvious to them.
Winning
Winning is not about crushing the competition or stepping on colleagues; it's about creating an environment where winning becomes a natural outcome of doing things properly.
Cynics and sceptics
What’s the difference and why does it matter for your workplace culture?