THE DEEP DIVE: Activate Your Values with Aga and Shani
Welcome to an entirely new format of the CultureLab podcast called “The Deep Dive.”
Once per month, I will sit down with a fellow culture geek and the co-founder of Wonder, Shani Persson, and we will explore a topic critical to building a thriving culture at scale.
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Today’s episode is all about Activating Your Values.
Activating your company values isn’t just a matter of hanging a fancy plaque in the lobby, it’s about infusing them into every aspect of your business. It’s about creating a culture where values are not just talked about, but lived and breathed by every employee.
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Episode highlights
- What are core values and how do we activate them?
- Shani and Aga reveal their personal values and share the practices they have to live in congruence with them.
- How does culture drive everything we do at work?
- Why values need to be translated into specific behaviours that can be implemented in daily interactions at work.
- Creating a vivid vision: how can it help activate and evolve your company values?
- Viral change approach to activating and embedding values.
- The power of shared experiences.
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More about Shani Persson
Shani is one of the founders of insight- and experience design lab, Wonder. A company aimed to inspire and support companies, institutions, groups or individuals to help themselves and others thrive through more human experiences. Creating conditions for humans with minds, bodies and souls to thrive has always been my mission. I’ve spent more than 10 years in corporate people-functions – driving change, and building culture and experiences for co-workers.
A nerd for anything human development, learning, leadership, culture and experiences that enhance our wellbeing and contribution. And love to explore any ways – cold plunges, meditation and biohacking included – to lead fulfilled lives with healthy minds and bodies, and of course – designing impactful human experiences.
More about Aga Bajer
Aga is the founder and CEO of CultureBrained® – a boutique consultancy on a mission to empower purpose-driven leaders to make work synonymous with fun, meaning and belonging. Aga is passionate about cultivating thriving cultures where people do their best work and solve wicked problems. Before establishing CultureBrained®, Aga led consulting teams in companies like Hay Group, Korn Ferry, and PwC.
In the past 20+ years, Aga helped hundreds of clients to attract, hire, develop and retain A+ talent, accelerate personal and business growth, drive impact and create legendary cultures that scale.
Aga is the founder and host of a one-of-a-kind, global community for Culture Leaders, the CultureBrained Community, where members connect with outstanding peers to discover new ways of cultivating thriving cultures at scale in the brave new world of remote and hybrid work. She is the author of Building and Sustaining a Coaching Culture and the creator and host of one of the most popular podcasts on culture, the CultureLab.
Aga has worked with senior leadership teams of many major organizations, startups, and scaleups. Her client portfolio includes Microsoft, AWS, Nordea, ANZ, Ideo, Toyota, Porsche, Hilton Hotels and Resorts, Citibank, GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, Leo Pharma, Hellenic Bank, Eurolife, Bank of Cyprus, Eurobank, Wargaming, Sanofi, Amdocs, SAP, Mambu, and many others.
Books mentioned in this episode
The 5 Book by Dan Zadra
Viral Change by Leandro Herrero
People mentioned in this episode
Additional resources
CultureBrained® Community – a one-of-a-kind virtual community for Heads of Culture, founders, and leaders who want to up their culture game.
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