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Company culture is the glue that holds your organization together. When you get your culture right, your employees work in harmony, it’s easier to attract top talent and you open up new opportunities for business growth.
When scaling your organization, you need a strategy, one that addresses infrastructure and personnel decisions, so that you can maintain the culture you’ve worked so hard to cultivate.
Consider how these four shifts can position your business – and its culture – for success as it grows.
Be intentional in your culture
When workplace culture is a patchwork of reactive policies and ideals rather than a deliberate framework rooted in your company’s mission, vision and values, it can lead to inefficiencies and misalignment, especially as your organization grows.
An employee survey can help you get a clear picture of where your culture currently stands and how you can improve it. Give your people a seat at the table. They can share insights into the shortcomings, but you have to be willing to ask the hard questions first.
Power decisions with data
You have a wealth of data at your fingertips, so use it to make your decisions smarter. For example, every time you run payroll, you get an idea of how many people have joined your company and how many have left. Combine companywide data with intentionally collected information – your employee surveys will come in handy here – to get a full picture of your business and culture and how they’re evolving.
Then, make thoughtful, data-backed changes. Acting on the information your employees share with you to improve your culture builds trust with your team and makes them feel heard.
Transform disjointed processes
A piecemeal approach to your HR tech systems can slow down your processes and subtly communicate to your employees that their time isn’t valuable. Your infrastructure must be able to scale up as your organization grows.
A connected HR tech platform is one of the greatest tools in your arsenal for making HR administration more efficient and scalable, and this tech should also serve your culture. Culture and technology should work together to create a people-first approach. Keep this at the forefront as you experiment with new approaches to existing HR duties by involving stakeholders throughout the testing and implementation process.
Move toward strategic experimentation
As your organization grows, having the right HR tech platform in place can also help streamline routine employment-related tasks and administration, preserve your culture and ensure your people have the right resources to succeed.
We recommend starting small, piloting new workflows and processes in secure environments and gathering input before scaling to the entire company. Be sure to include your employees throughout the process and routinely gather feedback to see whether the solution feels seamless in their day-to-day routines.
Maintain company culture while growing your business
By being deliberate in your growth and decision-making, you can build the type of culture that fits your brand, not just one that forms by accident. A strong people strategy helps align infrastructure, talent and leadership decisions with your long-term culture visions, maintaining what makes your company unique as it evolves.
Learn how the Insperity HRScale™ solution* can help you reach this alignment.
Discover the Insperity HRScale™ solution
*The Insperity HRScale™ solution is currently in development, and features are subject to change.
