A software driven culture development process for hybrid teams

Our proprietary software platform enables our experts to facilitate virtual multi-person workshops in real-time.

Involve your team to understand your current/actual culture, explore your aspirational culture and define your:

Vision and Mission‍
Core Values
Expected and Unacceptable Behaviors
And understand the impediments to achieving an optimal culture for your business

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The future is Hybrid

A hybrid work environment requires a new operating model

Leaders shouldn't think that the management style that worked pre-COVID will be as effective in the flexible work future

One of the biggest threats of hybrid work is the second-class citizen

In a hybrid work environment remote workers:

Struggle against communication structures optimized for the office
Do not experience work or culture in the same way
Do not develop the same work relationships
Are often excluded from discussions and decision-making
Need to be more vocal and work harder to be heard and recognized
Miss out on the banter and informal communication
Are excluded from the office tribal sub-culture
Experience managers who don't know how to lead remote workers

Overcome the second-class citizen threat, by building a remote-first hybrid work culture that is fulfilling, inclusive and equitable culture, where there are no advantages or disadvantages to working in an office.
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Hybrid Leadership Course

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CultureGene's practical and deeply insightful work unlocking the commercial value of company culture for us has been invaluable; I'd thoroughly recommend them to other investors looking to add value to their portfolio companies right now.

- Albert van der Wal, General Partner, Committed Capital

What you can abchieve with CultureGene

A 3-stage process to develop a strong, functional remote-first hybrid work culture

Define/Refine

Vision, mission & core values
Expected & unacceptable behaviors
Understand the culture gap between your current culture and your aspirational culture

Embed

Embed your culture into your leadership team, processes, functions and decision making.
Integrate the 9 remote working best practices into your operating model.

Manage

Evaluate, track, course-correct and optimize your company culture on an ongoing basis.

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CultureGene opened our eyes to the power of culture. Everyone took part in the process and had their say and as a result we achieved significant buy-in from the team. The impact on our business, from how and who we recruit to employee engagement and productivity, is undeniable.

- Mike Papageorge, CEO ISF Watchkeeper

Integrate remote work best practices to succeed at hybrid work

To build a thriving remote-first hybrid work culture, it helps to understand how remote companies operate because, at any one time, a percentage of your people will be working remotely.

To ensure the people working remotely don’t feel like second-class citizens, you must integrate remote-first best practices into the company's DNA and treat remote working as the default way of working. It is vital to build a hybrid work culture where:

Remote employees must feel as much a part of the team as those in the office.
Everybody experiences the culture in the same way.
The leadership team works (mostly) remote.

Remote work best practices

Focus on communication
Process-ize the business
Ensure wellbeing
Develop social connection
Create documentation
Transparency & trust
Focus on results/output
Be deliberate about culture
Customize recruitment & onboarding processes

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Our Covid-19 Research - How 165 Startups are Adapting to Remote Working

We surveyed over 165 startup founders in the UK to find out how they're adapting their company culture to remote working during the Covid-19 pandemic. Our average respondent had raise 2m in funding and has 10 - 24 person team.

What we found out, in a sentence:

The race to remote working excellence has already started, and startup leaders who were proactive about their company's culture development prior to the pandemic are finding the transition to be smoother than those that weren't.

Recent Blogs

Be A Great Hybrid Team Manager

We are starting to understand what it truly means to manage a hybrid team

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Might you be feeling burn out too?

Meetings: the burn out solution

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Why wonderful meetings make an amazing culture

Meetings are one of the most critical, yet overlooked areas of company culture

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Take Control Of Your Hybrid Culture

We make hybrid culture
development possible.

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How to build a hybrid work culture

Because of the remote work element of hybrid working, the office, which we largely took for granted, can no longer be relied on as a culture development or culture delivery engine.

key requirements for hybrid culture success

Make up for fact that our people aren’t in the office as often, or for as long.
Develop a culture that is effective for in-office and remote working.
Build a model that takes individual needs and organizational performance into account.
Be intentional about the strong AND functional elements of our culture.

Online Course

CultureGene's practical and deeply insightful work unlocking the commercial value of company culture for us has been invaluable; I'd thoroughly recommend them to other investors looking to add value to their portfolio companies right now.

- Albert van der Wal, General Partner, Committed Capital

Enhance Your Performance

CultureGene enhances your performance results by making your hybrid culture visible, tangible and actionable.

Our proven methodology creates a powerful hybrid culture and leaves organizations with highly effective culture leadership and management capabilities.

We make intentional hybrid culture development possible.

Overcome Hybrid Work Challenges

Employees want their leaders to rethink work, to develop a new hybrid operating system to bridge the gap between in-office and remote work. They want a system that is designed to be consistent across the company. They want to know that hybrid work means the same thing to the finance team as it does to the marketing team. They want us to step up and manage this dual work situation effectively, so that they can do their best work and live fulfilled lives.

Solutions

Managing Hybrid Teams Video Course

Become a great hybrid team leader

A 5-part online course designed for people managers who want to optimize hybrid work and build a successful hybrid work team.

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Culture Consulting

Culture Development Process

The 3-stage CultureGene culture development process that will enable you to develop a hybrid work company culture where employees at all levels feel engaged in, and are responsible for, the culture of the company.

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Recent Prodcasts

Brendan Rogers - Improving Leaders and Teams

Managing Remote Teams

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Habo Village Podcast

How to Change your Company’s Culture

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CultureGene opened our eyes to the power of culture. Everyone took part in the process and had their say and as a result we achieved significant buy-in from the team. The impact on our business, from how and who we recruit to employee engagement and productivity, is undeniable.

- Mike Papageorge, CEO ISF Watchkeeper

Our Press

oWN YOUR CULTURE

Start building a remote/hybrid work culture. Today!
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What We Do

Our software driven consultancy services help some of Europe's leading startups and funds overcome their company culture challenges.

What Clients Say

CultureGene are at the cutting edge of company culture, understanding how high-growth companies leverage their culture to build exceptional businesses

IVALIO JORDANOV, PARTNER 7% VC

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How we help clients 'win from home'

OUR UNIQUE SOFTWARE DRIVEN PROCESS HELPS CLIENTS
DESIGN &BUILD A STRONG, FUNCTIONAL CULTURE

Define/Refine

Our consultants take you and your team through a step by step, software driven process to unlock your core values, mission and vision. (The place most others stop)

Embed

We work with you to embed your values into your processes, functions and decision making - from hiring to promoting to rewarding - ensuring your team lives their values day in day out, with minimal oversight.

Manage

Using our unique software stack, we work with our clients on an ongoing basis to track, course-correct and optimise their company culture.

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Sign up for the 'OWN YOUR CULTURE' book launch

Do you want to build a top 10% or top 1% company culture?

Join our CEO Brett Putter and two leading culture experts from billion dollar companies for the launch of Brett's latest book, Own Your Culture, on the 30th of September, 5pm BST.

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What People are Saying

TESTIMONIAL

“Working with Brett to define the Runway East company culture has been a pleasure, we've seen a clear ROI”

NATASHA GUERRA MD, RUNWAY EAST

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"The CultureGene methodology is unique in it's scope and effectiveness"

BRONWEN LOUBSER, FRAMES@53

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"Brett is at the cutting edge of company culture. He is leading the way in understanding how high-growth companies leverage their culture and build exceptional businesses"

IVAILO JORDANOV, CEO PRINTASTIC

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“It’s fascinating to see how you break down the culture piece and put it at the centre of every action or decision the company makes. Almost like a framework for how to be successful!”

NICK VERKROOST COO, SEENIT

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"The CultureGene process works, it's as simple as that"

PAUL NIXON, LGT VESTRA

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"Brett opened our eyes to the existence and power of culture and how viewing the business through the window of culture can open doors to positive change."

MICHAEL PAPAGEORGE, ISF WATCHKEEPER

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"17 years of experience working with start-up and high growth companies has allowed Brett to build an elegant and simple framework for the creation of a culture deck."

Paul Archer, CEO Duel