Back at the workplace

After a busy week on my MBA program, I've done the first day of my "regular" job since starting. It feels like I been gone from the office a long time but it's probably because last week contained so much information.

But it was quick to get into the usual routines. We are planning a leisure activity for all staff in May. In this context, we discussed our employee records. This document required to prepare for the event is very much about ethics and morality and to develop the document has not been entirely painless, but now it begins to take shape. The days when the so-called "Big Meeting" will take place will contain a great deal of dialogue between the business areas which are a useful way to add a cultural basis.

Culture in organizations was one of the topics discussed last week on the MBA course. One of the things that came up was that everyone must be part of creating a workplace culture - and must have a say in things. I promised myself to say no when meeting times are not kept (which in my organization are often not kept). I got to practice this in the first meeting of the day - in which all participants came about 15 minutes late. What was interesting was that all employees agreed that time should be kept and promised improvement.

Let's see if it works :-).