Your culture is what your people say it is. Period. Aspirational posters and statements don’t change the DNA of the lived experience.
Each year the final question in our anonymous employee survey is “use three words to describe the culture at GSGI.” There are no prompts or drop downs to pick from. Any three words.
We take all of the final words, create a representative word cloud and distribute and display it across our organization and beyond. No words are edited or deleted. We evaluate and acknowledge exactly who we are today as an organization.
If there’s ever a word listed I don’t like, it’s my job to change the culture, not delete the evidence.
