How to Keep Your Office Culture Without An Office!
Office culture. That wonderful mix of beliefs, traditions, values, attitudes, and behaviors that distinguish the workplace. It’s a term that floats around when companies get new hires on board. But it can get very conceptual. At its core, office culture is simply the characteristics and behaviors in a workplace that give your organization a unique […]
Define Your Workplace Culture To Improve Performance
Workplace culture is composed of group behavior norms that determine how you do things in your organization. It is not the super cool perks that your company offers that sets you apart from other businesses. How people treat one another, the organization and your customers is what matters and ultimately gets you known as one […]
A Positive Work Culture Produces Happiness
Which comes first, a positive work culture or happy employees? Experts find that promoting employee happiness benefits everyone. This includes both employees and executives. Happiness, however, is similar to motivation. It is intrinsic. This means that happiness, at the deepest levels, comes from conditions that support you. Here are some examples: Relatedness: Does your work […]
How Poor Leadership Behavior Impacts Work Culture
How does poor leadership behavior impact your work culture? Employee engagement, goal achievement, productivity, civility, workplace bullying and your bottom line are all impacted by poor leadership behavior. That said, changing poor leadership behavior is possible when executives measure change in department attitude and performance. The problem is that a few employees will copy poor […]
Workforce Diversity Training Builds Sustainability
Is workforce diversity a threat or opportunity? A Pew Research Center study found that an overwhelmingly amount of Americans (six out of 10) enjoy what diversity delivers to society. In short, the public generally believes that the United States is a better place because of diversity. When you transfer these beliefs to the workplace, however, […]
Team Huddles Improve Work Culture Success
Work culture can be messy for many small and medium-sized businesses. Not every job starts with positive onboarding, which is needed to perform well in a new position and for work culture success. Studies on work culture support this. One 2016 study found that 94 percent of executives and 88 percent of employees believe a […]
Successful Onboarding Practices Include Work Culture Understanding
Retaining candidates after hiring them is harder than it seems. When companies lose 25 percent of all new employees within the first year, it’s hard for a business attempting to grow. According to the Center for American Progress, expect to pay up to 213 percent of a failed executive’s salary while waiting to replace them […]
How to Maintain a Healthy Work Culture
Many employees with some experience under their belts say they’ve had a bad work experience. Perhaps this will start to change in 2019. Both private and public organizations are now looking to transform their work environment. With this comes streamlining their hiring and onboarding processes to reinforce a healthy work culture. When employees are supported, […]
How a Psychologically Safe Workplace Benefits Your Organization
A psychologically safe workplace is one where employees feel safe to take risks and to be who they are as individuals. When employees believe they can take interpersonal risks, it results in a win for the organization and it is a win for the employee. Why? When employees feel psychologically safe they are engaged in […]
Research, Polls and Workplace Culture: TIGERS® Success Series 2018 Team Building Blog Recap Part Three
Over the past two weeks, we have been sharing recaps of all of our 2018 articles. Today’s post is the third and final installment in that series. Today, we look at our articles that covered human resource research, polls and workplace culture. In week one we reviewed all of the articles in our Management, Leadership, […]
