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WORKPLACE CULTURE
It is never finished Workplace culture is a work in progress
Workplace Culture
We talk a lot about the importance of workplace culture for the success of a business and we try lot’s of things. However in many cases they just don’t work. You can spend a lot of money aligning people to a great corporate culture, but ultimately employee’s need want to participate.
It is our job as employers to create the environment for a great workplace culture. One of the important elements to this, i have learned is to make sure that it is written down and there as a program that supports it.
Sometimes as managers, business owners and business leaders we are so busy rushing around we forget if we are treating everybody throughout the business equally, and fairly.
This is one of the reasons that we created the Redii.com platform which is all about experiences at work. As a manager I want to be able to see what people are working on and then see what people are saying about them.
Workplace culture is much more than just creating a program. It is really important to consistently deliver upon what you said you would do. Try to imagine what it like to be a new employee in your business, or a quiet person. Workplace culture is about including everyone in the frame work which is why a program is so important.
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Catch up on the Workplace culture blog posts
Using experiences to recruit
Experiences can be part of the recruitment process I was on the phone with a customer earlier today and I mentioned that experiences can be used to recruit people and perhaps he could include this in the reward and recognition program."Yes," he responded, "I know I...
People Development Learning
The things I learned about People Development I have been attending the National People and Organisational Development Summit event at Darling Harbour. I will share with you over the next few entries some of the insights gleaned. Goran Carstedt, former head of Volvo...
Do you want loyal customers and committed employees?
In one of those many emails that I subscribe to - this comment really struck a cord with me. "Do you want loyal customers and committed employees?" Now given that we put the book together "Happy People = Happy Customers = Happy Profits . It is good to be reminded of...
How to improve Rewards and Recognition
Reward and Recognition can be fun We have found that there are three key elements to a successful employee reward and recognition program - but having fun with it is equally important: Acknowledgement (how do they want to be noticed) Did they get to choose what to do?...
Identifying an Entrepeneur’s strengths
The Gallup Organization - ran a session on strengths. The basic premise being "do you like what you do every day?". Apparently only 20% of employees can answer yes to this. We did a simple online test (that was developed after establishing 34 key strength themes from...
Employee engagement statistics
Insights into the employee engagement statistics To me employee engagement sounds easy - just have the right people doing the right thing well. Yet it is not so straight forward. Well, Gallup spends much more time an effort proving this. Take the stats from The Gallup...