I came from a company with really strong culture —high energy, emphasis on human connection, high EQ. My new team is SO DRY! They don’t know each other well despite having worked together for a couple years now. They have forced meetings to build culture, but it ends up being everyone taking turns saying facts about themselves. Lots of awkward pauses during small talk.

Do any of you who value culture have experience working with cultureless teams? If so, how did you drive culture?

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Did you switch to IT? This is my life now lol

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I didn’t but I know exactly what you mean. 😂

Exit Deloitte and join (or perhaps boomerang to) Slalom

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Thanks for that, Slalom. I’m permanently on my current team so I unfortunately won’t get the benefit of variety. I’ve heard great things about Slalom. Maybe they’ll be my next jump because the way things are looking with this team I will be leaving as soon as reasonably possible.

Deloitte team culture is like that. I experienced the same thing across almost all 8 projects.

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Wow, I love that. What a great approach.

Suggest team building activities and you drive them. Like coffee chats, quiz nights.. could be virtual, like you can use sporcle for example.

Thanks so much for the suggestions. Looking into sporcle now

How I think my team feels about me. 😂

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