Events

Building and Measuring Culture Virtual Working Group
December 1, 2021 | 12:00-1:30pm (ET)

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As we navigate through, and hopefully beyond, the COVID-19 pandemic, companies are seeking to define the future of work, while leveraging the lessons learned over the past few years.  One area that will be front-and-center in these efforts is culture. How do we empower employees to make individual choices about how, where, and when so as to optimize individual, team, and business performance? How do we equip leaders to engage in meaningful dialogue about new ways of working in a post-COVID world?  How do we sustain and leverage the cultural gains that have emerged during the pandemic? How do we do a better job of measuring culture so as to allow for a more evidence-based approach to these and other questions?

Is this working group, Professor Brad Bell and Jerh Collins, Chief Culture Officer at Novartis, will lead a discussion aimed at addressing these and other questions surrounding the future of companies’ culture building and measurement efforts. The session will begin with a short presentation by Jerh in which he will share some of the culture work currently underway at Novartis. We will then transition into an open discussion focused on exploring a number of questions, including the following:

•    How do you currently measure culture within your organization? Do you have plans to evolve your measurement approach going forward and, if so, how?

•    What are the key cultural lessons and gains you have observed during the pandemic and how you trying to leverage and sustain these going forward?

•    What challenges and opportunities will post-pandemic work arrangements create in terms of balancing the desire for individual flexibility with the need for team and business alignment? How are you addressing these?

Ideal attendees to this session are individuals responsible for leading culture building and/or measurement initiatives within their organization. 

About our CAHRS Virtual Working Groups

Our virtual working groups are kept small (15-25 participants) to allow for rich discussion and best practice sharing.  Given the limited size of each session, we ask that you only register for a session if you will be able to attend for the duration.  Prior to the session, attendees should give some thought to the questions included in the description, so they are prepared to share with the group.  We also strongly prefer that participants be on camera during the session to allow for more engaging interaction.  If for some reason after you sign up for the working group, something comes up last minute (especially while many of us continue to work from home), it would be great to get even a last minute e-mail advising us that you cannot attend as we sometimes have a waiting list.