Eowynne, We Brainstormed Four Ideas for High-Impact, Tangible Culture Programs at FIS
FOR: ZANE ZUMBAHLEN, SVP HUMAN RESOURCES, FIS
March 11, 2025
Dear Zane,
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In The Culture Wheel Playbook, we talk about tangible culture programs and why they're so effective for helping employees embrace company values, align their daily work with key business objectives, and feel more connected to the mission and the team, even when working remote.
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Here are some ideas for how tangible culture programs could look at FIS, to make the concepts you read about in the Playbook easier to visualize in practice:
Idea No. 1
PERSONALIZED JOURNALS FOR YOUR PEOPLE
Encourage handwriting, reflection, and creative thinking by giving FIS employees a premium personalized journal.
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Open the pages to find custom-designed interior pages that express FIS company values, culture mission, or business strategy for every team member to have on hand. ​
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Provide unique sets of journals for different teams, or one unified design to unite your entire workforce.
Responsibly-sourced, premium Italian-made journals. Hand-customized with great care, and personalized for each employee. One design idea shown; many more options available.
Idea No. 2
CUSTOM WORKBOOKS AND PLANNERS FOR ONBOARDING, DEPARTMENTS AND TEAMS
Give new hires or specific teams their own unique workbooks or planners.
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Turn FIS training content into detailed workbooks for better knowledge retention
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Give sales teams quarterly planners to help them stay organized and on-plan
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Build custom workbooks to support key business or change initiatives
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With every page 100% customizable, the possibilities for using workbooks and planners to align your people's daily work with key business objectives are endless.
If you've ever desired a truly blank canvas for a culture initiative at FIS, here it is. Each page can be designed in any way imaginable.
WHY JOURNALS AND WORKBOOKS?
IT'S ALL ABOUT BRAIN SCIENCE!
Zane, did you know that handwriting recruits complex brain processes that enhance creativity, memory, and retention?
JOURNALS AND WORKBOOKS ENCOURAGE THE KIND OF DEEP WORK AND RELAXED REFLECTION THAT CAN CONTRIBUTE TO A CALMER NERVOUS SYSTEM AND OVERALL WELL BEING - THE KIND OF ACTIVITY THAT ACTIVATES THE PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FOR CLARTY OF MIND AND ENTERING THE FLOW STATE.
BUT OUR IDEAS FOR HIGH-IMPACT, TANGIBLE ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMS AT FIS AREN'T LIMITED TO BOOKS ...
Idea No. 3
FIS CULTURE CARDS
Sample content shown. Your card deck and box design is 100% customizable with any content imaginable. Up to 52 cards.
Bring company values and training content "out of the binder" and into every employee's hands with a bespoke card deck.
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Surface your most important business knowledge as a way to combat the 'out of sight out of mind' nature of digital knowledge.
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Bring together remote workers by putting the same physical items in everyone's hands.
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Watch as cards help people by giving them permission to speak up, be heard, share ideas, raise concerns, ask for help and hold others accountable.
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Deploy your card deck company-wide or to smaller teams.
Idea No. 4
AGILE RECOGNITION
Recognize employees who exemplify the ethos and values of your company, not just the star revenue performers.
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Become an agile recognition company, recognizing employee behaviors as they happen, not just at quarterly or year-end events.
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Empower managers and team leaders to trigger tangible recognition promptly, anytime, with zero burden of logistics and fulfillment.​
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Celebrate exemplary mentorship, years of service, business milestones, sales plan attainment, and more, anytime of year.
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Plan a year's worth of agile recognition just ONCE, and let CultureShape fulfill every recognition trigger like clockwork, in a 24-48 hr response window.
How are these ideas landing, Zane?
Let us give you the pricing details that go along with these tangible programs, and answer any questions.
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We can also talk about how programs like these connect with the key concepts in The Culture Wheel Playbook.
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Drop me an email if you want to connect and talk about your culture program.
