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CultureWise vs 15Five: Build Your Culture, or Manage Performance?

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CultureWise vs 15Five: Build Your Culture, or Manage Performance?

If you're comparing CultureWise and 15Five, you're solving one of two problems that look identical from the outside. Both platforms touch how your...

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Are you your company's chief problem-solver?

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Are You Your Company's Chief Problem-Solver?

Are you the chief problem-solver in your business? I was.

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Is It Too Late to Fix a Bad Culture?

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Is It Too Late to Fix a Bad Culture?

A CEO asked us this on a call, almost word for word. She ran a regional nonprofit newsroom, and she was blunt about what she'd inherited. "There is...

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CultureWise vs Lattice: Build Your Culture, or Manage Performance?

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CultureWise vs Lattice: Build Your Culture, or Manage Performance?

If you're weighing CultureWise against Lattice, you want to know where culture lives in your stack and who owns it. Both talk about performance,...

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We Asked ChatGPT to Write Our Core Behaviors. Here's What Happened.

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We Asked ChatGPT to Write Our Core Behaviors. Here's What Happened.

A CEO we talked to did the sensible thing. He had a handful of company values, he wanted the behaviors underneath them, and he had a tool that writes...

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CultureWise vs Gallup: Measure Your Engagement, or Build the Culture Behind It

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CultureWise vs Gallup: Measure Your Engagement, or Build the Culture Behind It

If you're weighing CultureWise against Gallup, you're comparing two different jobs. Gallup tells you where your engagement stands. CultureWise builds...

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From Peer Group Meeting to Monday Morning: How to Build Company Culture Without Becoming the Program

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From Peer Group Meeting to Monday Morning: How to Build Company Culture Without Becoming the Program

You walked out of your leadership peer group meeting lit up. Someone in the room, maybe a speaker, maybe a fellow CEO, laid out how they run their...

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CultureWise vs. Culture Amp: One Measures Your Culture, One Builds It

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CultureWise vs. Culture Amp: One Measures Your Culture, One Builds It

If you're comparing CultureWise and Culture Amp, you're weighing two different goals: knowing how your culture feels versus changing how it works....

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How Many Core Behaviors Should a Company Have?

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How Many Core Behaviors Should a Company Have?

Ask most leaders how many core values their company should have and you will hear a confident number: three, five, maybe seven. Short enough to fit...

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Meet the Rebuilt CultureWise Platform!

Most companies can name their values. They ran the offsite, argued over the wording, printed the poster, and hung it in the lobby. That part feels...

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