Your Communication Creates Your Company's Culture

Have you ever taken a moment to consider how your words create a culture within your company?

Presenting Matters is in the process of bringing on a new employee. While discussing expectations and processes, I told her that we'll have a staff meeting every Monday. We got to talking and we realized that we didn't want to have "staff meetings". As she keenly observed, "The term 'staff meeting' doesn't feel like Presenting Matters." And she's right. My company's culture is very fast paced, edgy, and always thinking big. So, we took the time to find the term that fit that culture.

When you run your meetings, how do your terms and phrases affect the culture? Is it a match or not? Do you have meetings that talk about creativity, but are run with military-like agendas?

How we give presentations in our company has a lasting effect through out the company's culture.