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November 18, 2020 30 mins

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The necessary tension between culture and performance with David Webster

The race is on to redesign the workplace, and culture is the word on everyone’s lips. But what good is culture if it doesn’t translate into performance and commercial success?

David Webster, David Webster, President of Cloud HCM and Financials software organisation, Workday talks the future of the office, rethinking communication and the fallacy of ‘engagement’ with Ben Bars on the latest Catalyst Captions.

Conversation highlights 

  • The evolving Purpose of Workday (0:30)
  • Putting people at the centre of enterprise software (1:00)
  • Turning data into action and insight into innovation (2:35)
  • Are engagement surveys a waste of time (5:19)
  • Using trends, data and context to find the ‘why’ in anything (6:38)
  • The necessary tension between performance and culture (10:15)
  • The role of the office and the future of work (13:35)
  • Changing our perspective on communication (16:08)
  • Gender equality in technology and the workplace (20:45)
  • The power of listening to your people (26:11)

Keen for more?

Like David, Ben Bars never misses an opportunity to hold engagement surveys to task. Catch his provocative piece ‘Don’t let the engagement score be your white whale’ on our blog.


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