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We’d just about got used to being in a VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) world when a new acronym popped up – BANI (Brittle,

Creating an accountable culture – where people make promises and keep them – is critical to organisational success. Here are six key

Drucker famously said that culture eats strategy for breakfast, by which he meant that you can have the best strategy in the world but

Businesses that pay early attention to encouraging the mindsets and patterns of behaviour that support AI adoption will have improved

Digital Transformation provides the opportunity to create a seamless experience end to end across customers, across products, across

Digital Transformation and AI are more often than not associated with negative outcomes for employees – cost cutting, automation, job

The significant shift we are seeing in culture today is not a shift away from a focus on achievement and results – this has to remain

In this video, Walking the Talk's Amanda Fajak explains why organisations can find that their digital transformations are stalling. 

I love Café Nero. I like the strong Italian coffee blend, the friendly staff, the fact I have an app on my phone and its so easy to get a

When accusatory, emotive and vitriolic language is used by people in power, red warning lights go on all over the place and sirens blare.A

Creating an agile culture involves fundamentally rethinking how you run your organisation and most organisations that we spoke to in our

For many, Agile is associated with the technology part of your business or one or two pockets in your organisation. It is often thought of

Our ability and desire to change as humans, has driven an extraordinary rate of change in particular over the past 10 years.  Think of

Whether you voted leave or remain, 80% of us now agree that Brexit is a shambles. There are much smarter people than me reflecting on why

Walking the Talk Executive Director Amanda Fajak explains how you build a foundation of trust.

Are you looking to create an agile culture for your organisation? Walking the Talk Executive Director Amanda Fajak explains 3 things to

The influence of leaders on organisational culture is strong. The shadow that leaders cast into their organisations means that the beliefs

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Executive Director Amanda Fajak explains why you shouldn't get culture confused with engagement.

Agile culture is about continually finding ways to improve your organisation's approach. Walking the Talk Executive Director Amanda Fajak

Creating an environment where people can feel psychologically safe and can speak up is fast becoming one of the main topics of conversation

Executive Director Amanda Fajak explains why a formal hierarchy doesn't always equal influence.

I am constantly talking to clients about the power changing a few key symbols can have in building momentum for culture change. Symbols

I have been on a pilgrimage of sorts over the past few weeks, retracing the events of the Hungarian revolution in 1956. My father was a

 At Walking the Talk, we are passionate about continuing to evolve our thinking on culture. We are always scanning the latest research and

As the role of culture is better understood, everyone wants to measure and understand the impact of culture change and the behaviours that

Joseph Campbell once wrote ‘The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are’. What a profound yet simple set of words that seem somehow so

I was only a teenager when I first read the question ‘what would I do if I weren’t afraid’. I was young and uncertain with all the angst of

Getting culture onto the strategic agenda is usually a function of 3 conditions.

If changing your culture were as simple as waving a magic wand, the world would be full of perfectly run organisations with ecstatic

Almost every organisation has some statement of what they stand for, usually in the form of a mission statement, or a list of values that

Respondents to our recent Managing Behaviours survey showed that there is a collective belief amongst leaders, employees, consumers and

Our Managing Behaviours in the Workplace research report is now available to download. Based on original research with over 700 leaders,

The argument for culture to have a key position on the strategic agenda has never been more compelling.

In an article by FT journalist Robert Armstrong on the Volkswagen scandal, he stated that “we have to assume something went wrong with VW’s

The new year hasn’t been quite as fresh and refreshing as it usually is. Watching what is taking place in global politics has given me a

I was lucky enough today to attend the launch of New City Agenda's latest report, on Cultural Change in the FCA, PRA and Bank of England –