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Building Cultures That Work

Leadership, Accountability, and Removing Barriers That Limit Performance

A practical, self-paced course for anyone who wants to build a healthier, more accountable workplace.

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Most workplace challenges are not caused by strategy.

they're caused by

  • They're caused by what happens between people every day.
  • The conversations that never happen.
  • The talented employee who quietly disengages.
  • The leader who unknowingly creates barriers.
  • The team that struggles with trust, accountability, and communication.
Culture shows up in how people communicate, how decisions are made, whose voices are heard, how leaders respond when something goes wrong, and whether employees feel empowered to speak up.
And everyone has the ability to influence it.

A Practical Course for Building Healthier, More Accountable Workplaces

Building Cultures That Work is a practical, self-paced online course designed to help you understand how workplace culture really operates, recognize barriers that may be limiting people and performance, and strengthen your ability to positively influence the environment around you.
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Whether you are an employee, supervisor, manager, executive, HR professional, or community leader, this course provides practical strategies you can immediately apply to strengthen workplace relationships, increase accountability, improve communication, build trust, and contribute to meaningful culture change.

You do not need a title to influence culture.
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Every interaction, decision, conversation, and response contributes to the kind of workplace people experience.

Earn 3 SHRM Professional Development Credits

Building Cultures That Work has been approved for 3 SHRM Professional Development Credits (PDCs).

Ask Ovell is a SHRM Recertification Provider. HR professionals who successfully complete the course will earn 3 PDCs toward SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP® recertification.

SHRM Activity ID: 27-N7YXS

‍Participants will receive a certificate of completion upon successfully completing the course.
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What You Will Explore

Throughout the course, you will examine the workplace dynamics that can either strengthen or undermine organizational culture, including psychological safety, employee voice, leadership accountability, unconscious bias, workplace barriers, authenticity, communication, engagement, and trust.

You will learn how to recognize behaviors and practices that may unintentionally limit employee contribution and performance; understand why employees sometimes remain silent or disengage; navigate difficult workplace conversations more effectively; strengthen accountability without diminishing trust; identify opportunities to remove barriers within your own sphere of influence; and translate greater awareness into practical action.

The course combines real-world workplace scenarios, case studies, reflection exercises, and practical tools so that learning does not stop with awareness. You will be challenged to consider what you can do differently in your own workplace.

What You'll Learn

Identify and remove workplace barriers that limit performance and engagement

Lead with accountability and influence regardless of your title

Improve communication and workplace relationships

Navigate difficult conversations with confidence

Strengthen trust, inclusion, and collaboration

Create meaningful and sustainable culture change

This Course Is for You If...

  • You want to become a more effective leader.
  • You want to better understand the culture of your workplace.
  • You are responsible for developing, engaging, or retaining employees.
  • You want to improve communication and accountability on your team.
  • You have seen talented people become frustrated or disengaged and want to better understand why.
  • You want practical approaches for addressing workplace barriers and difficult dynamics.
  • Or you simply believe workplaces can work better—for both people and performance.

From Awareness to Action section

Building a healthy workplace culture requires more than good intentions.

It requires people who are willing to examine what is working, recognize what is getting in the way, have conversations that matter, and take responsibility for what happens next.

Building Cultures That Work gives you practical tools to do exactly that.

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What's included:

This course takes you inside the everyday decisions, behaviors, barriers, and power dynamics that shape how work actually gets done.

  • Self-paced lessons designed for real workplace application
  • Practical tools for building trust and accountability
  • Reflection prompts to help you apply what you learn
  • Action steps for creating healthier, more human-centered cultures

Meet Your Instructor, Ovell Barbee Jr.

For more than 30 years, I have helped organizations navigate workplace challenges, strengthen leadership, improve employee engagement, and create cultures where people can thrive.

As an award-winning HR executive, author, speaker, and workplace culture strategist, I have worked with Fortune 500 companies, healthcare systems, public sector organizations, nonprofits, and executive leadership teams across the country.

This course combines real-world experience, practical tools, personal reflection, and actionable strategies that participants can immediately apply within their organizations and communities.

Your Seat Has Influence.
Use It Well.

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