Cultivating Company Culture
Part of our “Building Business” series appearing in Fine Homebuilding magazine.
By HELM project manager TJ Fattaruso
Over the course of a lifetime, the average person will spend 90,000 hours at work. It stands to reason that workplace and company culture can have a huge impact on your quality of life. Put simply, workplace culture is how we show up and interact with each other at work. Is the atmosphere serious or is there room to joke around? Do you show up to meetings in suits or jeans? When it’s someone’s birthday, is there cake? Culture is there, whether it is implicit or intentional, neglected or strong.
At HELM Construction Solutions, we often hear from business owners that they struggle with how to build a strong company culture. We know from experience that neglecting workplace culture can lead to dissatisfaction, unresolved conflict, tension, turnover, and even disrespect and retaliation. We spoke to company leaders at building and design firms who have focused on nurturing their companies’ cultures, as well as organizational development experts, to learn their takeaways.
The same themes came up over and over again when it came to intentional culture-building that creates a sense of belonging on your team: Define your values and put them into practice; provide clarity and support to your team, in their existing roles and for their future growth; and listen to and incorporate their feedback.
Continue reading at Fine Homebuilding Magazine (August/September 2025, Issue 333)