Creating, enhancing, and maintaining a positive, effective, and successful culture is a skill that I have intentially worked on improving on for myself since being a leader. I believe the culture sets the tone for all staff and in our case as a career college, also for our students (and for their clients on the salon clinic floor). Culture is the basis for why we do what we did, it is the underlying current that is driven by our mission and perpetuated by staff who believe in what we're doing and work towards promoting that to other staff and to our students. To instill culture is a long-term venture but one that can be ultimately rewarding and create a more successful environment. Turning people's attitudes and outlooks from "we're the forgotten ones," or "they don't want to help us," to "we're the best because we do our best," and "they'll give us what we need to succeed," was one of my biggest challenges taking over a campus last year. Now with seven managers under my scope, it's proven even more tricky to get each of them to a similar page and then to create that buy-in at their respective campuses.
