Empire International

A social enterprise driven by the desire to provide creative, interactive and sustainable solutions to Africa's challenges.

#AfricaFirst #EnablingTomorrow

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Simply,Organizational Culture is how you behave as a common entity internally & externally and consequently,the behaviour you're known for.

That can and should be a product of design thinking.

We can help with that.

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When this becomes reality,your organization will be one of the greats.

#leadership

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Leadership matters.

In particular,organizations can benefit tremendously when its culture and leadership programs prioritize sparking everyone's innate leadership potentional vs targeting only those in authority positions.

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That not only leads to a fuller leadership pipeline,it also raises the levels of value based excellence enterprise wide.

People looking into your organization should have a really tough time identifying "the leader" due to the overflow of leadership behaviour on display.

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Leadership is an exercise in juggling.

At minimum,these 4 objectives have to be in the air.

Luckily,there's a common thread through all of them that should really be the focus.

People.

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Taken together,these 3 returns help an organization develop their circle of virtue which delivered effectively,can serve as a sustainable model for existence,operations and growth.

#organization #purpose

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Organizational Purpose sounds like a flowery mythical concept but it has real world tangible value in terms of driving the objectives of the organization.

How?

1. It does wonders for your employer brand where talent is drawn to your larger reason for being.

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2. It differentiates the organization from the competition in the industry and marketplace.

3. It encourages social impact as a key pillar and the hope of transformed lives in society.

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Building Teams

#teamdevelopment #learning #communication #teambuilding

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How much trust is there in your team whether across colleague or leadership level?

The answer to that question has implications on your teams' productivity and impact.

#work #buildingteams

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The great organizations of the world seek not to just do well.

They also seek to do good.

#purpose #socialimpact

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Communication 101 - talking is best done face to face.

#internalcommunication

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Leadership should be obsessed with helping others and offering solutions.

In an organization,that means being a facilitator and not a hindrance.

#organizationalleadership

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There's no way around it.

Sustainability and corporate citizenship has to be core to who you are as an organization and front and center in terms of vision,values and strategy.

#dogood

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Employee Engagement is beyond team building.

It's about getting and continuously creating buy in from the people for where the organization wants to go and the purpose it exists.

#employeeengagement

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How do you build organizational culture?

One person at a time.
One conversation at a time.
One community at a time.

Over time.

#organizationalculture

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Are you talking to your people or are you talking with them?

Because with is much better than to.

#internalcommunication

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A key function of leadership in an organization is to embody,demonstrate and champion the organizations' values and inspire everyone to live or die by those values.

With this in place,it becomes much easier to align culture and drive the overall agenda.

#leadership

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These questions and the answers to them will lead to the essence of an organization's existence.

#purpose #dowell #dogood #impact #legacy

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Purpose is a very big word.

A simpler way to think of it where an organization is concerned is Why do we exist?

What problem are we seeking to solve?

What impact do we want to have in the marketplace and society?

What do we want to be remembered for?