A question about cultural challenges

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Designing your next role means knowing the environment that would help you thrive in it. Use this week's question to navigate this variable in your career design.

We’ve discussed the tasks you least enjoy; now let’s explore the cultural aspects of your current or most recent company that you find challenging.

Recognising cultural challenges helps you avoid organisations with similar issues. It ensures you find a culture that supports your leadership style and values.

Key question to ask:

Practical tips:

1. Identify challenging aspects: Reflect on the cultural elements of your current company that you find difficult. This could include a lack of transparency, resistance to change, or poor communication.
2. Understand their impact: Consider how these cultural challenges affect your leadership and team’s performance.
3. Seek cultural fit: During your job search, look for companies with cultures that address these challenges. Ask about their culture during interviews to ensure alignment.

Next time, we’ll focus on the leadership qualities in your current role that you find problematic.

Keep calm and curious,

Kate

About Kate Christiansen

Kate works with leaders and teams who need to master mission-critical moments of transition. Whether it's a new executive role, a new leadership team, a once-in-a-decade strategic opportunity or time to change course completely, Kate's deep expertise and unconventional approach is what you need to succeed.

Known for her energy, warmth and pragmatism, Kate has a remarkable ability to trigger new thinking and find pathways through even the most complex situations. Using her unique approach ‘The Moment Method™’, Kate empowers people and organisations to be unstoppable by unlocking their ability to activate, navigate and accelerate the moments that matter by unleashing the power of questions.

Kate is also the award-winning author of two books and a qualified Company Director with the London Institute of Directors.

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