‘Our job is to develop healthy employees who bring energy to work. That’s the only way the corporation can survive.’
They don’t need more money. They need more love, kindness, and respect.
‘… a new vision for built environments as places that increase and protect the health of those who occupy them every day.’
When you take care of them, when you see them as human beings, they will take care of your environment.
‘The real war is leadership engagement. It is fought to win the hearts and minds of employees.’
If you don’t care about your environment, your people won’t care. If you want them to care, you care first.
‘Workplace that is easy to use understand, navigate, and use sends a definite message, ‘We value and want to support your role in our organization.’
People want to be appreciated. They want you to see them. If you can do that, your culture will take care of itself.
‘Leaders have to care, and they can’t care for people they don’t know.’
If you want your people to follow you, to bring their best selves to work, you must get to know them. Not for what they can do for you, but for who they are.
‘We have the opportunity to restore human dignity through good work.’
As a leader, your number one job is to take care of your people. It is to make them feel better about themselves. It is not to bring them down, but to lift them up.
‘If someone’s environment is going to drammatically impact their health, productivity, and retention- that is where I would focus.’
Yes, you are right. Because health is everything. If you don’t have it, the rest doesn’t really matter.
‘Delivering a healthy building and one that transforms your culture and business may sound daunting, but is very achievable, increasingly necessary, and suprisingly economical.’
You don’t transform your building by adding more things. You transform your building by creating a positive environment.
‘You are far better using the top strengths to develop alternate strategies than trying to improve a strength low on the list.’
Success happens when you are not trying to be who you are not. Failure happens when you are trying to be who are not.
‘Healthy cultures adapt, bounce back, learn, let go, cooperate across departments, serve one another, and add value to the whole. Conversely, unhealthy cultures are sclerotic, prescriptive, political, and rigidly infallible.’
A healthy culture doesn’t happen by accident. It is the work of a great leader, a leader who wants others to learn better, work better, and live better.
Source:
Rex Miller, Phillip Williams, and Dr. Michael O’Neill (2018). The Healthy Workplace Hudge: How Healthy People, Culture, and Buildings Lead to High Performance
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