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Fully Embracing Diversity: The Case for Behavioural Diversity in the Workplace

In recent years, the conversation around diversity and inclusion (D&I) has rightfully gained momentum across the corporate landscape. While strides have been made to enhance demographic diversity—such as gender, race, and age—there's a vital aspect that often goes overlooked: behavioural diversity. Integrating behavioural insights into D&I strategies complements traditional measures and unlocks a deeper level of innovation, team performance, and employee engagement.

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Integrating Culture & Leadership Data to Drive ROI

Integrating culture and behaviour data with business performance data to showcase the ROI of culture and leadership development initiatives is an evolving area in HR and business analytics. Here's how this integration can be effectively achieved, the challenges involved, and how technology can help overcome these challenges.

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The Power of Culture Shaping in Organisations

In today’s competitive business environment, organisational culture is more than just a buzzword—it's a critical driver of success. Culture shaping is becoming increasingly recognised for its impact on employee engagement, productivity, and overall business performance.

In this blog post, we'll explore what culture shaping is, why it matters, highlight companies that excel in it, discuss how it influences business outcomes and offer insights for practitioners.

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Hiring for Culture Add: Transforming the Hiring Paradigm

In the evolving landscape of talent acquisition, the concept of "hiring for culture add" has emerged as a better approach, moving beyond the traditional "hiring for culture fit." This shift is not just semantic but strategic, focusing on how new hires can enrich and expand the existing corporate culture rather than merely blending into it.

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People-focused data analytics and insights in scale ups

In today's challenging environment for scale ups, data-driven decision-making is crucial in the search for effective scaling - and especially in the often overlooked culture and leadership areas. In this article, we will explore the significance of people-focused data insights for scale-ups and how systems like Scalewell’s Fitness to Scale system can be a game-changer for unlocking growth.

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Understanding and managing scale up toxic culture issues

Toxic workplace culture can have detrimental effects on employee well-being, productivity, and the overall success of a scale up. For leaders, addressing these issues is paramount. In this article, we will explore the nuances of toxic workplace culture, its signs, and provide strategies for managing and transforming it into a healthy, thriving scale up environment.

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