The Golden Thread
How consistent culture creates purposeful people and high performance
Leanne Hamley
Description
The Golden Thread is a blueprint for authentic organizational culture: what it is, what it isn’t, why it matters, and how to build it.
If you are passionate about creating an environment where people thrive, you’ll understand the value of real engagement and values alignment. But how do you make it happen? Consciously or not, company culture runs like a golden thread through any organization, and where it is not thoughtfully nurtured it unravels – leaving a toxic environment filled with bureaucracy, politics and poor mental health.
The Golden Thread guides business leaders through this concept – exploring cultural diagnostics and revealing what they really mean. This book will show you how to design and develop your own target culture, one that is right for your people and business. It then takes you step by step through the employee lifecycle, helping you to weave your new cultural and values through everything to build a happy, healthy, high performing organization.
Leanne Hamley is an experienced leader and business coach specializing in behavioural change, leadership development and organizational culture.
Reviews
The author has shown a deep understanding of the subject and has done well to demonstrate the pragmatic steps required to sustain cultural development within any organisation.
Amazon
Essentially this is a book about culture, strategy and organisational values. It is bang up to date and highlights how the true nature of many cultures has come to light during the coronavirus pandemic.
HR Director
Embedded in the book is the tenet that a good culture is not just nice to have. It is fundamental to an organisation’s ability to perform well and gain a business advantage over rivals.
Edge
Contents
Contents of book
Introduction
Chapter One – The Golden Thread of culture explained
Chapter Two – Untangling the thread
If we know where we are starting from (and we know where we want to be, the rest is simple) – This section is based on diagnostics, identify what data you have available to you both internally and externally and then how you can interpret that data. It looks beyond what the data is saying and explores some of the misinterpretation so that you can truly identify what the culture is like, not what you are being told.
Chapter Three – Laced in gold
Chapter on organisational valus, their meaning, their use and their effectiveness. It will break down the stages of purpose, design, define, create and deliver, a framework to review and align current practice to ensure a robust delivery plan.
Chapter Four – The thread that binds us
Here we breakdown each step of the employee journey from attraction, to onboarding, training, management development, communication till they leave, we review the golden thread of the organisation culture within section. Challenged by a series of post section questions to reflect against what is working well and what needs further development. The section also offers some simple practical theories to breakdown what may or be overlooked at times and why is it key that’s we understand the impact of decisions or our style on our employees
Chapter Five – Threadbare
What happens when change is thrown at us, how do we rebuild an organisation through our people. Survivor syndrome and post change impact increases organisational suffering. This section looks at how we transition our employees. Post pandemic, mass redundancy, business growth – all have a people impact yet businesses are still failing to regroup and to regroup well. This section we look at the personal impact and then the role of the business / manger and how they can accelerate the transition period.
Chapter Six – Over to you
A summary with the key takeaways. A reflection on the ‘Golden thread’ what is it within your business, is it there? Is it prevalent and what value does it have? What happens when it’s not there and what impact can that have? We need to focus now more than ever on our people, our employees we need to serve them in a way we haven’t previously, only by doing so we will rebuild the lives of so many and the economy
Editions
FORMAT / ISBN / PUBLICATION DATE / RRP
Paperback / 9781788602662 / June 8, 2021 / £14.99
Ebook / 9781788602655 / June 7, 2021 / £7.99
Paperback and eBook Bundle / £16.99
Authors
Leanne Hamley
Leanne Hamley is an experienced leader and business coach specializing in behavioural change, leadership development and organizational culture. Having worked across multiple sectors, industries and countries, she understands what makes people and organisations thrive.
Leanne works with organizations to create authentic cultures that put the wellbeing of their people at the heart of the business, cultures where values have real meaning and purpose.
She has set up numerous high-performing Learning & Development functions and has worked on international HR Change programmes for major companies such as DHL and McKesson. Her time in Sri Lanka working on a change programme to integrate child Tamil soldiers into a Sinhalese orphanage helped her understand fully the power of culture for behaviour change.
