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

The Power Of True Mentorship

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To mentor another human being is to serve humanity. If you want to change the world, be a true mentor.

According to Dina and David McCormick, ‘A true mentor can unlock a person’s capacity to be their best self.’

‘A mentor who cares about the whole person will tap into the mentee’s deeper needs and values.’

‘Transformative mentoring is different from coaching, where the main goal is to improve conditioning, awareness, or performance.’

‘With transformative mentoring, the relationship is established with larger goals in mind.’

‘As a transformative mentor spends time with a mentee, instincts, performance, and character are shaped and enlarged.’

‘Trustworthy mentors encourage and empower the mentee to be vulnerable and honest with them- to bear their deepest concerns and aspirations in the knowledge that their mentor will respect their confidences and is committed to their well-being.’

‘Transformative mentors produce leaders who are not concerned solely with their own interests, but about our country as a whole.’

‘To serve is to lead with duty, honor, strength, and humility.’

‘An effective transformative mentor helps guide a mentee’s life and shapes that persons worldview.’

‘Transformative mentoring instills values that equip the mentee to be a wiser, more trustworthy leader who achieves positive change wherever that person goes.’

Source:

Dina Powell McCormick and David McCormick (2025). Who Believed in You? : How Purposeful Mentoring Changes the World