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Podcast

Growth Cultures are mostly about conversation. Each episode is a real conversation with a real professional about a real challenge they have at work. Then we judo flip it into an opportunity for growth. Perfect for modeling these conversations for managers. Have a listen. (Or search for "Learning At Work" wherever you listen to podcasts)

Articles

Learn the basics of a Growth Culture with these articles.

• Emergent Productivity: How flipping the focus to the employee changes everything.
• Discover the DDO: Developing your people and your business are the same thing.
• Project Aristotle: Google discovered the number one trait of high-performing teams.
• Employee Lifetime Value: Calculate the invisible ROI of investing in your people.

Books

These foundational texts have shaped the CultivateMe method. 

• An Everyone Culture. Lays out the blueprint for a Growth Culture, or what they call a Deliberately Developmental Organization, by examining three highly successful companies, all of whom directly attribute their success to their system for developing people.
• The Fifth Discipline. This profound and prophetic book from the 70s unpacks the ways in which your organization is a living, responsive and adaptive system. As such, your best strategy for survival and success is learning how to learn.
• The Alliance. Read this if you want to understand why a Growth Culture is the most powerful recruiting tool for truly aligned talent.
• The Coaching Habit. You can read it in an afternoon and start effectively coaching your people the next day. It's basically a manual for constructivism in the workplace.

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