Does Your Employer Let You Flourish?
Mert Damlapinar
Empowering CPGs with strategy & tech solutions in digital commerce, MarTech, AI, retail media, digital shelf. ex.L’Oreal, Mondelēz, Sabra/PepsiCo | Advisory Board, Keynote Speaker, Investor,Author | Amsterdam & New York
Are you yourself in your workplace? Do you feel comfortable with the environment and colleagues? Do you work in a positive workspace that allows you to flourish?
Being part of a company that believes in letting employees flourish can spell the difference between a company you love and one you barely manage Wellness in your workplace is what allows you to thrive. Let’s face it; you can’t possibly grow in a workplace setting where you can’t show your real personality, motivations, talents, and uncertainties.
Healthy workplaces have characteristics that promote happiness at work, employee engagement, and employee flourishing. Such a workplace fosters social values such as diversity and inclusiveness, equality, freedom of expression, honesty, and respect. The best workplaces are those with a safe foundation that makes employees flourish and develop themselves. Imagine working with an organization, and you can track significant self-development and progress month after month. This should be your goal.
In this article I will take you through how the workplace should help you flourish and how to identify the traits of a company in which you can grow. I want you to leave a comment below sharing the culture in your current workplace and what progress you’ve made since you joined the organization.
Here's an overview about the characteristics of workplace wellness in a company that fosters productivity, excellence, and camaraderie.
1. Positive Values
Is your company following its mission statement? A positive mission statement outlines the company’s goals as well as the demonstrative behavior for exemplifying the commitment to quality service to the company, clients/customers, and to each other. You can only flourish in a company that works to accomplish its goals to improve humanity honestly and ethically.
2. Productive and Relaxed Atmosphere
Flourishing in a company is guaranteed when you feel acknowledged, appreciated, and rewarded. In a company where you receive rewards, genuine compliments, bonuses, promotions and raises, you’ll always feel motivated to do more. You can only flourish in a company where signs of domination, fear, sexual harassment, intimidation, and bullying are absent. In such a workplace, thinking out of the box, productivity, and creativity will flourish. Plus, you should be able to have fun and laugh with your team members in your workplace.
3. Excellence
When you work in a company that is highly committed to excellence, you’ll also flourish. In such a space, you’ll strive to be the best you can be, giving 200% and delivering topnotch products and services.
4. Communication
Communication is key to a successful and healthy workplace. There should be open and honest communication with everyone coming together to solve difficulties in a positive way. Everyone views feedback as an avenue for growth, and no one attempts to revenge with nasty gimmicks when given negative feedback.
Also, there should be an underlying sense of respect, compassion, and understanding in the company. When one employee is faced with challenges such as illness, accidents, natural disasters or personal tragedies, others should be able to go the extra mile with compassion and understanding.
5. Flexibility
Change is constant, and the company you work should embrace change, incorporate new skills, and accommodate new technology and trends. You’ll flourish in a company where you get to learn new skills and use new technology.
If you find none of these traits in your current workplace and you are always feeling sad and depressed, then quitting might be the best option.
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Credits: 2DaysMood.com, Forbes.com, DiscoveryInAction.com.au, PsychologyToday.com
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5 年Hi Mert Thanks for that great info and the invitation to reflect on it. So often we're in the throes of self preservation and survival, due to the completely opposite traits that are today's workspaces. I am blessed to be in business with a company that is the epitome of the values you speak of. I am truly blessed. Thanks again.
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5 年Well Stated Mert Damlapinar. Your team needs to feel appreciated, respected, comfortable, be given opportunities and work in a positive environment, in order to flourish. Thank You for your kind mention. #companyculture #healthyenvironment
Growth Consultant @ NG Consulting | Driving B2B Agencies & Early-Stage SaaS Revenue with Social-First GTM Strategies ??
5 年"Communication is key to a successful and healthy workplace. " at times i've been so uncomfortable with being able to speak out but having others around me pushing me to do so made me realise how important this was and so crucial to success in a team environment, holding it close to your chest is never good!
26 Years Executive Digital Marketer & Strategist
5 年It all comes down to how you are treated.?