How To Create A Positive Workplace Culture

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As a leader, you are responsible for creating a positive workplace culture.

Your culture comes from what you care about. If you love people, then create a culture where people are respected.

If you want to see love, then love your people. If you want to see engaged people, then give them something that makes sense to them.

Give them reasons to come to work. If not, you are working alone. Because, according to Shawn Murphy, ‘Relating to human beings is troubling when you choose to not become more self-aware.’

‘A giver seeks to find ways to help people fulfill their needs, understand their wants, and realize their hopes.’

‘Collaboration is the active participation of people working jointly together.’

‘Connection is a relationship between people focused on and held together by evolving shared interests.’

‘Community is a unified group of people with a shared interest.’

‘The climate suffers when employees don’t believe their leader has their back.’

‘To notice what interests your employees isn’t a matter of culture. It’s a leadership choice.’

‘Employees are key partners in the success of the team and ultimately in the organization.’

‘Stewards use meaning to personalize the work experience.’

‘Resilience can be strengthened when a person has a sense of purpose.’

Source:

Shawn Murphy (2016). The Optimistic Workplace: Creating an Environment That Energizes Everyone

Recruitthebest Daily Digest- Workplace Inequality (2)

The single most important thing men can do to support gender inequality is to reflect on what it means to be a man at work.’

This is really the whole point of equality: having employees approach their work in a way that values the contributions, needs, and interests of everyone equally.’

Companies that have a culture of equality will be able to outcompete their peers.’

We learn to fit in through an ongoing process of observing and interacting with people at work, something known as socialization.’

Comforming to the standard determines how easy it is for you to fit in.’

The longer we work in corporate life, the harder it is to challenge our own beliefs of the ‘ideal worker.’

The inequality you experience at work doesn’t exist because of you. It exists because of the culture in your workplace. The only way to solve this is to stop denial and learn about the different ways people experience inequality at work.’

Not seeing inequality is what keeps it in place.’

Equality is an ongoing journey that every leader signs up for when they agree to manage people.’

When a leader shows vulnerability, it signals to others it is safe to do the same.’

To solve inequality, we need leaders to listen more, think differently, and take action to disrupt the status quo.’

Source:

Michelle P. King (2020). The Fix: Overcome the Invisible Barriers That Are Holding Women Back at Work