Charlie Sull's guest appearances

Charlie Sull

CultureLab with Aga Bajer

The Fix

Leading Transformational Change with Tobias Sturesson

Leadership Launchpad Project

OwlTail

What constitutes a remarkably healthy culture and a workplace people love being a part of? What about your culture might instead make people frustrated and leave your organization?  Two critical questions that every leader needs to ask.  While we face an economic downturn, the job market is still competitive, especially for highly skilled talent. And we all want to be known for building great organizational cultures.  So what can leaders do?  Charlie and Don Sull, researchers at MIT and co-founders of Culture X, have conducted the largest systematic study of corporate culture ever, analyzing 1.4 million Glassdoor reviews from more than 500 of the largest employers in the United States.  They found that toxic culture is the primary driver of resignations. And that even relatively healthy cultures can have toxic elements that must be addressed. They learned that culture can't be adequately measured using only quantitative measures - like employee engagement surveys. And that the most important elements of stand-out cultures are listening to employees and building psychological safety.  On the first episode of Season 8 of the Leading Transformational Change Podcast, we bring you a conversation with Charlie Sull.  Charlie's thought leadership has been featured in the Economist, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, and more. I hope you will find our conversation as insightful, inspiring, and thought-provoking as I did!

What constitutes a remarkably healthy culture and a workplace people love being a part of? What about your culture might instead make people frustrated and leave your organization?  Two critical questions that every leader needs to ask.  While we face an economic downturn, the job market is still competitive, especially for highly skilled talent. And we all want to be known for building great organizational cultures.  So what can leaders do?  Charlie and Don Sull, researchers at MIT and co-founders of Culture X, have conducted the largest systematic study of corporate culture ever, analyzing 1.4 million Glassdoor reviews from more than 500 of the largest employers in the United States.  They found that toxic culture is the primary driver of resignations. And that even relatively healthy cultures can have toxic elements that must be addressed. They learned that culture can't be adequately measured using only quantitative measures - like employee engagement surveys. And that the most important elements of stand-out cultures are listening to employees and building psychological safety.  On the first episode of Season 8 of the Leading Transformational Change Podcast, we bring you a conversation with Charlie Sull.  Charlie's thought leadership has been featured in the Economist, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, and more. I hope you will find our conversation as insightful, inspiring, and thought-provoking as I did!

075. Charlie Sull: What It Takes to Build a Remarkable Culture - Learnings From the World’s Largest Culture Study

According to the most recent “Women in the Workplace” report from LeanIn.Org and McKinsey, the gap between men and women leaving their jobs is the largest it has been since the report was first published eight years ago.  For every female director who is promoted, two women at the same level of seniority choose to quit. The report states that women are leaving companies that fail to deliver on “the cultural elements of work that are critically important to them.” Culture is our lived experience of work, and for women today, the lived experience of work isn’t great. For example, the Women at Work report by Deloitte published this year finds that 10% more women are experiencing; harassment, microaggressions and exclusion at work compared to a year ago. Overall, this is an increase from 51% to 59% of women.  To understand how pervasive toxic cultures are, Charles Sull, cofounder of CultureX and Donald Sull, senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and cofounder of CultureX analyzed the language that 3 million U.S. employees used in Glassdoor reviews to describe their employer between 2016 and 2021. What they found is a gender gap in men and women’s experiences of toxic workplace cultures. Overall Women spoke more negatively than men about most elements of culture, including work-life balance and collaboration. The largest gap between the genders however, is for toxic culture, which they define as a workplace culture that is disrespectful, no inclusive, unethical, cutthroat, or abusive. On todays episode Charlie Sull joins us on the show to discuss these issues. Even if employees don’t quit, employees in toxic environments are more likely to disengage from their work, exert less effort, and bad-mouth their employer to others. Sustained exposure to a toxic culture increases the odds that employees will suffer from anxiety, depression, burnout, and serious physical health issues. Given the impact toxic workplace cultures can have on our mental and emotional wellbeing, it is important we understand how to solve this issue. Here Charlie shares what we can do. Action One: Be nicer to people - dilute the toxic culture. Action Two: Report toxic behaviour to HR, if you witness it or it is happening to you. Action Three:  Take reliable data to senior leadership and keep talking about it to ensure senior management realize that this is a problem and place the item on the agenda of the CEO.  Don’t lose your voice.   CultureX

According to the most recent “Women in the Workplace” report from <a href="http://LeanIn.Org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LeanIn.Org</a> and McKinsey, the gap between men and women leaving their jobs is the largest it has been since the report was first published eight years ago.  For every female director who is promoted, two women at the same level of seniority choose to quit. The report states that women are leaving companies that fail to deliver on “the cultural elements of work that are critically important to them.” Culture is our lived experience of work, and for women today, the lived experience of work isn’t great. For example, the Women at Work report by Deloitte published this year finds that 10% more women are experiencing; harassment, microaggressions and exclusion at work compared to a year ago. Overall, this is an increase from 51% to 59% of women.  To understand how pervasive toxic cultures are, Charles Sull, cofounder of CultureX and Donald Sull, senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and cofounder of CultureX analyzed the language that 3 million U.S. employees used in Glassdoor reviews to describe their employer between 2016 and 2021. What they found is a gender gap in men and women’s experiences of toxic workplace cultures. Overall Women spoke more negatively than men about most elements of culture, including work-life balance and collaboration. The largest gap between the genders however, is for toxic culture, which they define as a workplace culture that is disrespectful, no inclusive, unethical, cutthroat, or abusive. On todays episode Charlie Sull joins us on the show to discuss these issues. Even if employees don’t quit, employees in toxic environments are more likely to disengage from their work, exert less effort, and bad-mouth their employer to others. Sustained exposure to a toxic culture increases the odds that employees will suffer from anxiety, depression, burnout, and serious physical health issues. Given the impact toxic workplace cultures can have on our mental and emotional wellbeing, it is important we understand how to solve this issue. Here Charlie shares what we can do. Action One: Be nicer to people - dilute the toxic culture. Action Two: Report toxic behaviour to HR, if you witness it or it is happening to you. Action Three:  Take reliable data to senior leadership and keep talking about it to ensure senior management realize that this is a problem and place the item on the agenda of the CEO.  Don’t lose your voice. <a href="https://www.culturex.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CultureX</a>

Charlie Sull: Is Your Workplace Toxic?

On this week’s Leadership Launchpad Project podcast, Charlie Sull, co-founder of CultureX, joins the show.  Charlie talks about his research on analyzing 34 million Glassdoor reviews with artificial intelligence to determine why employees leave companies, what makes a toxic culture and how we identify toxicity.  It's an episode full of data and research so I hope you enjoy it. We at Elite High Performance specialize in building high-impact leaders who turn their teams into happy high performers that achieve their goals. A prime example is our client, MiQ who has increased their revenue by 35% YOY, has 83% employee engagement when the global average is 21% and reduced turnover by 28% YOY. Can you afford to leave revenue, productivity on the table and afford to lose your employees?  If you can't, visit elitehighperformance.com for the best, research-backed, high-performance leadership strategies that will build you into a high-impact leader who turns their teams into happy high performers that achieve their goals. Rather than traditional leadership coaching,  Elite High Performance blends neuroscience, mindset coaching, high-performance leadership strategies with cutting-edge technology &amp; data to provide a clear path to building a high-performing team - or to turn around an under-performing team. It’s the same way professional sports teams combine high-performance coaching, technology and analytics to build a winning sports team. Connect with Charlie Sull on LinkedIn -  https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-sull/ Check out www.culturex.com Connect with Rob Kalwarowsky on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-kalwarowsky/ Connect with Susan Hobson on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jumpstartliving/ Check out - elitehighperformance.com--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/leadershiplaunchpad/message

On this week’s Leadership Launchpad Project podcast, Charlie Sull, co-founder of CultureX, joins the show.  Charlie talks about his research on analyzing 34 million Glassdoor reviews with artificial intelligence to determine why employees leave companies, what makes a toxic culture and how we identify toxicity.  It's an episode full of data and research so I hope you enjoy it. We at Elite High Performance specialize in building high-impact leaders who turn their teams into happy high performers that achieve their goals. A prime example is our client, MiQ who has increased their revenue by 35% YOY, has 83% employee engagement when the global average is 21% and reduced turnover by 28% YOY. Can you afford to leave revenue, productivity on the table and afford to lose your employees?  If you can't, visit <a href="http://elitehighperformance.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">elitehighperformance.com</a> for the best, research-backed, high-performance leadership strategies that will build you into a high-impact leader who turns their teams into happy high performers that achieve their goals. Rather than traditional leadership coaching,  <a href="https://www.elitehighperformance.com/leadership-coaching/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Elite High Performance</a> blends neuroscience, mindset coaching, high-performance leadership strategies with cutting-edge technology &amp; data to provide a clear path to building a high-performing team - or to turn around an under-performing team. It’s the same way professional sports teams combine high-performance coaching, technology and analytics to build a winning sports team. Connect with Charlie Sull on LinkedIn -  <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-sull/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-sull/</a> Check out <a href="//www.culturex.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.culturex.com</a> Connect with Rob Kalwarowsky on LinkedIn - <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-kalwarowsky/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-kalwarowsky/</a> Connect with Susan Hobson on LinkedIn - <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jumpstartliving/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/jumpstartliving/</a> Check out - <a href="http://elitehighperformance.com/leadership" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">elitehighperformance.com</a>--- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/leadershiplaunchpad/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/leadershiplaunchpad/message</a>

Toxic Culture Matters More Than Money with Charlie Sull

Charlie Sull developed a groundbreaking AI tool to understand and assess organizational culture through the use of big-data processing. The tool mines “digital traces” of culture in electronic communications, such as emails, Slack messages, or Glassdoor reviews. By studying the language employees use in these communications, AI can gauge what the current culture is and how it influences people's thoughts and behavior at work.  To join CultureBrained® go to tinyurl.com/culturebrained To access our free resources and materials on cultivating thriving cultures, click here: https://www.agabajer.com/resources/

Charlie Sull developed a groundbreaking AI tool to understand and assess organizational culture through the use of big-data processing. The tool mines “digital traces” of culture in electronic communications, such as emails, Slack messages, or Glassdoor reviews. By studying the language employees use in these communications, AI can gauge what the current culture is and how it influences people's thoughts and behavior at work.  To join CultureBrained® go to <a href="../episodes/view/tinyurl.com/culturebrained" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">tinyurl.com/culturebrained</a> To access our free resources and materials on cultivating thriving cultures, click here: <a href="https://www.agabajer.com/resources/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.agabajer.com/resources/</a>