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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
‘Sickies’ will kill Australian businesses in the downturn.
In troubled times business must do more with less. There may be fewer people in your business, fewer customers, less capital, less cash…. But one thing you do want less of is people 'Chucking a Sicky' As a result, there some simple options available to do more with...
What about work-life balance?
“What about work-life balance?” I answered truthfully and said, “When you are starting a business it is all hands, hearts and minds on deck 24/7 – as the business begins to mature what you do might change but the focus and energy required does not.” I continue to work...
Extreme Cost cutting stories
I have been blogging recently about 'not cutting off your nose to spite your face' in a corporate cost cutting sense. So we set about collecting some stories about extreme cost cutting: We had many – feel free to add your examples. Is there anything that is going on...
10 things bosses hate
One of my favourite topics is employee engagement. I have worked for some really great bosses - I have also worked for some terrible one's in my 15 years of corporate life before I started my own show. So I have been both a boss and an employee - I have seen both...
Purple jelly beans and other corporate gift blunders
I wrote a few weeks ago that 65% of Australians last Christmas received a gift that they did not want (or like) the value of these gifts was estimated to be worth $985m. I'd like to know how many of these were given by companies? I have heard some tragic corporate...
Seven measures of employee engagement.
The Human Capital Institute was founded in 2004 in the US and has around 115,000 members in 60 countries – Allan Schweyer, the Executive Director shared some insights with the participants of the recent Brand Engagement conference in New York which I attended last...
Employee Attachment before engagement
Employee need to discover attachment before engagement There is not one business owner I've met who isn't talking about the attraction and retention of great people. The conversation then soon turns to engagement and how 'into' and organization some one is. I was...
Five Office activities people dislike.
Love Recruitment did a survey of its clients to find out what bothers people the most in the office. Given my curiosity about employee engagement, these are things I had never really considered. If people just want to get on with their day there is a lot of 'noise'...