Make Teamwork Part of the Culture
Company culture is best described as how the employees act when the boss is not present. There are certain strategies you need to incorporate into a company's culture. These strategies are: plan for it, model it, expect it, monitor it, and reinforce or reward it.
"Voice is more than effectively articulating your point of view. Voice requires listening. To have voice is to be understood, and to be understood requires deep listening -the kind of listening where one person can see the world from another's point of view."
-Making Teams Work
Team work should be well displayed in a company's culture and should be found in things like the company's mission statement or guiding principles. If you want company culture to remain intact it is vital that managers and supervisors be role models. If they don't follow the rules why will the employees?
Create a statement for expectation of behaviours so that all team members know what is expected of them in the company's culture.
Monitoring teamwork behaviour should be considered a daily activity and you should also complete evaluations periodically make sure the culture remains stable.
