Will HumphreysVirtual Assistant & Healthcare Recruiting Expert

Culture Isn’t Built on Pizza Parties

Name: Culture Isn’t Built on Pizza Parties
Uploaded: 2025-05-09T17:04:25+00:00
Duration: 47 s
Channel: Will Humphreys
Description: Will Humphreys argues that company culture is the emotional feeling employees have ("the feeling your employees get in their stomach on Sunday night")…

9 May 2025 · 1 min

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Will Humphreys argues that company culture is the emotional feeling employees have ("the feeling your employees get in their stomach on Sunday night") and that true culture is built from clearly defined purpose, values, and vision—not only celebrations. He recommends teams rehearse and discuss one of those elements each week for at least five minutes so the language becomes familiar, with celebrations (e.g., pizza parties) used merely to celebrate progress.

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Culture isn't pizza parties. Look, here's the best definition of culture I've ever heard. Company culture is the feeling your employees get in their stomach on Sunday night. That's culture, how we feel about a company. And so that can include employee celebrations and different elements. But here are the core elements of culture, company purpose, values, and vision. If we don't have that language defined, and if our people can't recite it offhand, that's where we start. We define those terms, and we bring them up in every weekly meeting, at least for five minutes. We have in our team someone who talks about one of those elements every week, and it becomes this fun connecting piece as to why we exist and where we're going. Then we can throw in the pizza parties to celebrate along the way.