The document discusses how having a positive culture is important for winning teams and less fighting, both physical and non-physical. It provides survey results showing that improving a workplace's culture could significantly improve employee performance and productivity. The document also discusses how school leadership needs trust from teachers in order to foster improvement in teaching and learning.

1. Cracking the culture code
Welcome!!
with Steve Simpson
Copyright © 2014 Steve Simpson

2. Morals to the story?
• Winning teams don’t fight, losing teams
do
• It’s much more fun (and less dangerous)
to be in a winning team
• ‘Fighting’ need not be physical - there are
other ways to be at war
• A fighting team won’t win - doesn’t matter
how good the individual players are...
• This wouldn’t happen in a great culture
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25
50
75
100
20% or more 50% or more 80% or more 100% or more
9
24
56
96
3
21
58
92
4
19
40
91
Senior manager
Middle manager
Non-manager
If the culture of your workplace was to become as good as it
realistically could, how much improvement would there be on
people's performance/productivity?
Survey of 452 readers of ‘Cultural Intelligence’

3. Investment in Education
Success (IES)• Communities of Schools would form to
encourage collaboration between school
governance, leadership and teachers to
improve their practice and deliver shared
achievement objectives, which they would
collectively set.
Best Evidence Synthesis (BES)
Report• While educational expertise is a necessary
condition for effective leadership, it is not
sufficient; leaders must also build trust
relationships if they are to engender and
sustain improvements in teaching and
learning. Leaders who show regard for
others and treat them with respect, and
are seen by them as competent and having
integrity, are trusted. Such leaders can
foster the levels of inquiry, risk-taking,
and collaborative effort that school
improvement requires.

4. At our meetings
it isn’t worth
complaining
because nothing
will get done
The only time
anyone get spoken
to by the boss is
when something is
wrong

5. Our funniest jokes
usually involve
making jokes
about our work
colleagues
We go through
the motions with
our bosses, once
they’ve gone we
do what we want

6. • The social well being of staff is extremely
important, so we joke, laugh and socialise a lot
• The leadership team has exclusivity in so far as you
are able to relate to their style of humour and their
‘inside’ stories (N.B. the emphasis here is intended
to convey the point that you had to conform)
• A sign of being included as part of the ‘leader
group’ is being invited to play golf
• The only time students are talked about in the staff
room is when they have done something we can
laugh about

7. Hotel Adelphi...
What are the Key Cultural Attributes (KCAs) we
need in place to ensure our future success?