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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
Eight Ingredients at the Mentoring retreat
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What To Wear To Work
What To Wear To Work I was reading an article recently in HR Daily about what to wear to work. Kind of interesting that it is a topic of discussion in an HR publication. My first job when I graduated from university, as a naive young graduate (1984) was with IBM (in...
How To Deal With Bad Apples
How To Deal With Bad Apples In the last few posts, I have been talking about what it takes to be a Great Place to Work. It’s all about trust and purpose. One of the questions I had recently at a speaking engagement is very relevant ‘What if you have a rotten apple...
What I wish I knew… about well being
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How to flourish!
Flourish is such a delightful word… it makes me think of growth, vibrancy, and excitement; such a positive word. During the research for my recent TEDx presentation – I listened to the headmaster of my daughters school speak of the work by the New Economic Forum… and...
A ‘Namby-Pamby’ Management Revolution?
Management Revolution I received the email below yesterday, just after RedBalloon for Corporate hosted a Webinar on Employee Engagement for 250 people. I didn't receive the email until after the event. But I assume that this person was commenting on the session...
3 Tips on Giving Great Gifts
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Five Steps To Being Positively Positive
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