While there is no doubting the impact that talented leaders and individuals can have on culture and business performance, a great team has an exponential impact on both. Indeed, it is almost impossible to over index the importance of having effective teams at all levels of your organisation.  ..read more

With increasing pressure on people’s time, shortening attention spans, and tightening economic conditions, interventions designed to drive positive behaviour change in the workplace are being re-imagined. Where previously much leadership development was focused on face-to-face programmes, there is a growing need for speed, scale, and efficiency.   ..read more

Innovation is a much overused and misused term in business. Fundamentally, the end game of innovation is to provide new products, services, or business models to your customers that fulfil an articulated or unarticulated unmet need. And if you’re not innovating, you’re in trouble – now more than ever. In this blog we’re going to explore what we mean by a culture of innovation, why it’s important, and how to create one. We’ll also look at why so many companies struggle with innovation, and therefore why we’re still talking about it so much. And finally, we’ll look at the impact of hybrid on in ..read more

With the growth in skills-based hiring, fractional employment, and the transactional gig economy, there have been questions about the importance of corporate culture in hiring and retaining talent. But far from diminishing in currency with candidates, your culture is one of the most powerful tools you own to showcase why, in a world of increasing choice, people should come and work for your organisation.     In this article, we will examine what is meant by company culture, why it’s increasingly important in recruitment, and how you can use it to attract the people you need. We’ll a ..read more

Assessing your company culture is essential when driving organisational change because you need to understand where you’re starting from. Diagnosing your culture’s key characteristics, finding out what’s causing them, and the impact they are having are all vital steps to undertake in order to successfully shift your current culture to the desired state.  ..read more

Organisational culture can sometimes seem a nebulous concept. While you can clearly feel culture and its impacts, defining what needs to change and how, and measuring the results, are more challenging. But culture is a critical strategic enabler, and as such needs to be treated as a discipline in the same way as HR, Finance, Legal functions etc are. Because as the cliché goes (and clichés have a habit of being true) ‘What gets measured gets managed’, and therefore significantly increases your chances of being successful.   ..read more

The first episode of Carolyn Taylor's podcast series on cultural contribution is now available ..read more

Agility is not a new concept in business, nor is it a buzzword. In fact, many companies claim to be agile, yet very few are. Like innovation, the term agile is thrown around with little understanding of what being agile really means. Agility is a set of critical mindsets, and associated behaviours, that done properly can revolutionise and future-proof your business. But for most, agile doesn’t extend beyond performative agile activities, for example scrum meetings.   ..read more

We’re excited to announce an exclusive Culture Lab Masterclass event on ‘Assessing talent for culture contribution’ that Walking the Talk is hosting in March. The recruitment process is one of the key levers you can pull to build the culture you want. However, organisations often struggle with this. At Walking the Talk, we believe we have the answer – The Taylor Assessment ..read more

Do you feel your company values may not fully represent who you are any more and therefore need updating? If so, you’re not the only one. At Walking the Talk, we are currently working with many of our clients who wish to do exactly that: refresh their values ..read more