How do you create a company culture document that has a lasting positive impact? A culture document that truly aligns your team and not just another document? Here is one way to do it! Excerpt from our latest Level-up Engineering podcast interview.
#1 Take notes of your current values ️
Take note of things that are meaningful to your culture and set your organisation apart.
#2 Involve key people 🧑 🧑
Involve key leaders in your company, engineers. They have a valuable perspective, seeing your culture.
#3 Get an outside opinion
Do you work with someone on a contract basis? Involve this person! She probably understands your culture, but not with your company every single day. This gives her an outside perspective.
This helps a lot since when you're inside your problems, sometimes you can't see the solution.
#4 Define it
Do some soul-searching, and define the aspects of your existing culture. Put it into words, and write it down.
#5 Communicate it ️
The next step is to roll it out, and make everyone aware of it. We started out with one-on-one trainings, and I held some sessions for small groups myself.
#6 Lead by example
The most important thing is to lead by example.
For instance, if you have a “Don't be late” rule, the CEO and the management have to arrive a minute early to every meeting. Only then can you expect the developers to follow this as well.
#7 Hold people accountable
In a performance review, we look at our objective key results for the company and for the individual. We look at performance, and how the employee is doing as far as our culture document goes. We expect our people to uphold the values of the company.
Hungry for more? Read or listen to the full post here: https://codingsans.com/blog/culture-document
