Scaling up the size of your organization and growing is a good thing. It means that your brainchild is slowly and gradually growing to the size you wanted it to and is climbing the ladder to success. However, most organizations face the same old problem of maintaining company culture once they start growing.
As companies grow in size, it becomes seemingly hard for them to maintain the same values, core competencies and culture they once prided themselves on. Rapid expansion can slowly and gradually sneak up to the managerial team and can lead to a completely new culture, different from the one you previously had in place.
Once the damage is done, you will be longing for the days when your company was smaller and the core values and culture were ingrained within the day to day affairs of your organization. However, it is useless to cry over spilt milk.
In this article, we look at some of the ways to maintain your workplace culture as your business is growing. Follow these tips and keep your culture the way you would like it to be.
Rigorous Hiring
Hiring is important to your culture. Most organizations and their hiring teams end up making the dreaded mistake of hiring quickly and not realizing whether a specific individual would sit well within the culture they have created or not. Make sure that your new recruits fit in well with the new workplace colleagues. Diversity is a good thing, but it shouldn’t really challenge your culture and the values you have in place.
Encourage Values
Your values aren’t just a bunch of fancy words that you write together on a piece of glossy paper. However, they should define and complete you. If you want to maintain your culture, it is necessary that you interconnect it with your values and encourage them. Focus on your values during the hiring process and also make sure that you keep encouraging values during the day to day affairs of your business. Your inability to focus on values might leave you without any definite values as you grow.
Maintain Traditions
Once your organization consists of just a handful of employees, you develop certain traditions that are eventually lost with growth and the passage of time. Try to maintain those traditions and celebrate them in the same manner.
Hang on to the OGs
Hang on to the original team you started your business with. Disputes and conflicts do happen, but make sure that the members you first hired for your business stay with you and help you maintain the culture you call yours.
We at JS Benefits Group have worked with numerous clients to discuss ways to maintain your workplace culture as you grow. You can get in touch with JS Benefits Group immediately to discuss and devise a policy.
