The Culture Catalyst with Stephanie Bown

The Culture Catalyst with Stephanie Bown

Hosted by: Stephanie Bown

Welcome to the Culture Catalyst, a fortnightly podcast with me, Stephanie Bown, a high-performance coach. Since I was 14, I've been obsessed with positive psychology and human behaviour, which has led me on an...

Episodes

Chapter 25: Bringing it all together

Season #1 Episode #25

When we bring together the systems for leadership, culture and strategy, we see a mega-ladder of high performance where all systems are interconnected. This is where we see the high-performance system producing...
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Chapter 24: Where strategy often goes wrong

Season #1 Episode #24

There are three main reasons why organisations fail to extract full value from their strategy creation to strategy execution process: We fail to align on a single source of the truth. We don’t place enough emphasis...
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Chapter 23: Evaluate and review

Season #1 Episode #23

Fostering a culture of openness and transparency means regularly evaluating and reviewing performance.Ā  People leaders provide clarity and alignment by setting goals and KPIs during performance reviews and Team Plan...
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Chapter 22: Cascade and align

Season #1 Episode #1

A well-defined and succinct one-page Business Plan without a process to translate that plan into action is just a good read.Ā  The senior or executive team sets strategic goals, targets and priorities, but teams and...
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Chapter 21: Engaging your workforce in the Business Plan

Season #1 Episode #21

Any founder, CEO or senior executive responsible for running a business can write a one-page plan. Gaining full alignment, clarity and accountability for that plan from the whole team is the challenge. Creating a...
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Chapter 20: Your Business Plan – a strategy on a page

Season #1 Episode #20

Like birds flying in formation, a one-page Business Plan enables your people to efficiently and effectively migrate from where you are now to where you need to be. It translates your vision into clear and measurable...
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Chapter 19: Introducing The Strategy System

Season #1 Episode #19

The Strategy System is your process for strategy creation and execution that ensures your organisation remains adaptive and responsive in your chosen market. The Strategy System aligns the whole team to work...
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Chapter 18: The value of strategy

Season #1 Episode #1

At its most basic level, a strategy is a plan for realising a vision.Ā  But plans are limited – we can only form them based on the experiences and inputs we have at the time. The more information and experience we...
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Chapter 17: Where culture often goes wrong

Season #1 Episode #17

If you don’t manage culture, culture manages you. Culture goes wrong when we: Think it’s something HR does. Fail to fail. Don’t hold leaders accountable to it. In this episode, Steph breaks down each of these so...
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Chapter 16: The Culture Plan

Season #1 Episode #16

The Culture Plan is an organisational asset that demonstrates, at a glance, how your company honours its values in how it deals with employees at each stage of the employee lifecycle. It's only fair that if employees...
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Chapter 15: Defining company values and behaviours

Season #1 Episode #15

If your purpose describes why you exist, how you are unique, and what you do, your values capture how you behave in the pursuit of your company mission. Values provide an essential moral compass to your business. They...
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Chapter 14: Purpose beyond profit

Season #1 Episode #14

Your purpose is your primary reason for being. It is the difference you make, the value you add, the change you create. The terms ā€˜purpose’ and ā€˜mission’ have been used interchangeably. More recently we’ve seen...
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