So let's look at some things.
One way to embed it into your culture and into your quilt is workplace design.
There's many, many ways to do this, walk around your workplace.
And see what it says to you about your culture is aligning.
Is it sterile?
What do you have on your walls?
I've seen some organizations where they've had the history of their organization,
that tells me a lot about how they feel about the history, walk into cubes.
Do you see people's families pictures?
Do you see pictures of things in your organization?
That tells you a lot about it.
You see pictures of people doing volunteer work,
all these things say a lot of about your culture.
So when someone comes in,
you're communicating to your very workplace design.
Transparent Communication, this is also crucial.
People need to know what's going on, and need to know that they're being truthful.
Now, there's a couple of exceptions.
If it's a legal issue,
or confidentiality, certainly we're not communicating that to folks.
But what you want to do, is tell people what's going on whenever you can.
There's an old adage in communication, if I don't know what's going on,
I'll make it up.
And most likely, it'll be worse than the truth.
So make sure people know what's going on in the organization,
make them your partners.