What if making just a few changes could transform your workplace for the better?
Every manager and CEO dreams of creating a winning culture at their workplace. This is the kind of culture where every single employee is devoted to doing their absolute best.
Unfortunately, many employees simply want to clock in, do the absolute minimum, and clock out. If you have that kind of workplace, then how can you transform it into a winning culture?
To help you make that kind of workplace transformation, we’ve put together this simple guide. Keep reading to discover all the secrets to creating a winning culture at work!
Make Sure Employees Understand Company Values
Every company under the sun has a mission and values statement. But do your employees actually understand the values and their importance?
You can do a soft audit of your employees by conducting anonymous surveys about the company culture and how well that culture aligns with company goals. Just be warned: You might be surprised by what you find!
Some employees may know little about the company culture or misunderstand it entirely. Other employees may not see the relationship between company values and organizational goals.
Such an audit helps you discover if you need to communicate both the values and goals better, allowing employees to “buy-in” to this winning culture.
Set Clear, Fair Goals
Speaking of company goals, these should be built with two things in mind: transparency and fairness.
Transparency is important because many employees are often unaware of the company’s progress toward particular goals. As you might imagine, it is challenging to create a winning culture when employees don’t know if the company is “winning” or not!
However, making goals clear to each team helps employees track their own contributions toward important goals. And as long as those goals are fair (meaning they are challenging but achievable), it will be easy to get all employees on the same page about the success of the company.
Moving Employees as Needed
Earlier, we talked about the importance of a culture audit to determine if your employees understand the organization’s values and its goals. At the same time, it’s important for management to conduct a personnel audit and shuffle employees around as needed.
Now, this shouldn’t be seen as a negative thing. This is actually at the heart of “human resources” — some of your employees have strengths that would be better suited in other teams or divisions. Conversely, some high-performing employees have weaknesses that can be mediated when they are surrounded by the right team members.
Again, no employee should see being moved as a sign of poor performance. Instead, this is a way of aligning all employees with a winning culture by putting them where they will do the most good.
Champion Diversity
These days, it may seem like diversity and inclusion are buzzwords. But make no mistake: These are two of the absolute most important values to your employees!
This is because employees work best when they know they have the full support of management. Because of this, you should encourage employees to embrace cultural displays, to be open about their sexuality, and to share their preferred pronouns with the team if they feel comfortable doing so.
By creating a workplace that values diversity and inclusion, you will create a team that is completely devoted to a winning culture. And you will also build loyalty among your employees that will encourage them to work that much harder toward your shared goals.
Publicly Recognize Major Achievements
A winning workplace culture is all about goals. For the entire company to meet its goals, different divisions, teams, and individual workers must have their own goals as well.
How, then, do you keep everyone on track toward completing their own goals? The best way to do so is to publicly recognize major achievements. By creating reward and recognition programs, you can effectively single out your best workers and praise their hard work.
When other employees see someone getting praise and recognition, they will want to experience this for themselves. And this helps you create a culture where everyone is working as hard as possible to meet their most important goals.
Change Procedures and Policies to Fit Goals
What if the biggest obstacle to your employees completing their goals was management?
Sometimes, managers and CEOs make the mistake of setting new goals without revisiting their existing policies and procedures. And this can result in situations where a particular policy or procedure actually interferes with completing goals.
For example, let’s imagine a call center where the new goal is to reduce the average time spent on calls by one minute. The goal is admirable, but if the call center still has a long and complex problem/resolution procedure for customers, then that procedure is going to get in the way of the goal.
Fortunately, good company leaders who are willing to revise policies and procedures to service and accomplish goals can create a winning workplace culture very quickly.
Balance Discipline and Humor
Obviously, creating a winning workplace culture is about more than creating new goals and adjusting existing policies. It’s also about creating a positive vibe around the office that keeps employees happy and motivated.
It’s good to encourage humor and self-expression among employees. For example, allowing people to dress in funny costumes around certain holidays or allowing employees to surprise a fellow worker with a birthday party during their lunch break.
As long as you balance humor and discipline, you can create a very loyal core of reliable employees. Basically, as long as employees are taking the job seriously, it’s fine if they aren’t taking themselves that seriously, especially if it means they look forward to clocking into work each day.
Join a Winning Culture Today
Now you know some ways you can create a winning culture at work. But what if you could join a workplace with such a culture as early as today?
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