Your Company Culture is your Crown of Synergy and Stardom

"The feeling your team members have in their gut or their minds on a Sunday evening about the upcoming Monday morning is a perfect parameter to define your company culture."?

Office gossiping, low office engagement, unhealthy competition, micromanaging—all these are evident intangible signs of a toxic work environment.

#Marketing ?is what you talk about yourself to the world

?#Branding ?is what the world talks about you

?#Culture ?is what speaks volumes about your company without anyone talking or listening?

With a positive and healthy work environment comes?higher productivity, active engagement, and immense loyalty. Employee engagement does not just include ping-pong tables or free coffee or a carom board or a mere formal celebration during festivals, rather the attitude, environment, and flow state maintained by the top management defines how involved and engaged a team member is.?

?Like how Richard Branson of Virgin Group states –?“Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to leave”?this is exactly how people become self-sustaining and teams get empowered to do more!?

Richard Branson also quotes,?“Take care of your employees and they will take care of the Business. It is as simple as that”?

Leaders ought to build teams by installing the values of unison towards a vision, understanding the impact analysis of what individuals do and how it can be done better, upgrading members' expertise by regular?Training-Implementation-Feedback process?– this is what drives loyalty, shapes company signatures and adds longevity of enthusiasm – the profits, brand value, and ranking are just outcomes of the above regime!???????????????

Mentioned below are a few ideas for attaining ideal workplace culture for your organization (Please note, there is no standard unit for culture and it will be as flexible as the top management decides to drive as)??

- Focus heavy on?hiring right, this will reduce your training budget and reduce attrition?

- Make policies that are?flexible?enough for an employee to feel like a freelancer?

- Install?vision and goal statement?for every department and policies, rewards, and perks for each individual of that department?

-?????Regular feedback?and grievances are redressed across all levels of the pyramid?

-?????Celebrating small wins?and regular check-points of measuring success towards the larger aim?

- To take off the load, the management needs to breakdown mammoth goals into small micro-aspirations (Lifetime Vision --- Annual Targets --- Quarterly Goals --- Monthly Metrics --- Weekly Schedule --- Daily Tasks --- Hourly Checks on the to-do-list)?breaking down large ideals into micro tasks?will make it seem less pressure and more fun!?

Effective Leadership?is what builds transparent and organized work environments. This may sound sweet on paper and difficult in reality, but no doubt there is always a long-term effort for rewiring people and their inflexible mindsets. Getting people to grow is merely?a mindset change, let me explain how –?

?- The?Human Resource?can shift from being Sentinel Guardians to being an Elder Brother who will guide in times of need, punish when you go wrong, reward when you do right and protect when wrong is done to you.?

?-?????Team Leaders or Department Heads?need to shift their mindset from being the Class Monitor to being the tutor friend who can explain a difficult concept in an easy manner 10 mins before the exam

?-?????Team Members and Mid-Mgmt?need to shift their perspective on task-to-revenue ratio and become more like Interns willing to grasp more, experience more, learn and evolve faster and enjoy the process of metamorphosis!?

?-?????The Workforce (across all dept and designations)?needs to change their narrative and watch their words while communicating about the workplace even off-hours because this narrative will soon be a sub-conscious framework and unknowingly evolve into an inflexible perspective??

Company cultures constantly lean toward toxicity or idealism but are never static – this crest and trough is the absolute signature of constant improvisation or?‘Kaizen’?

?Constant learning and development lead to consistent improvements and these further yield a growth culture in the organization. It all begins with?Leadership Coaching, Empathy Workshops, and having a Coaching Culture in the organization?

With longer working hours and stringent budgets, companies are increasingly realizing the importance of creating a happy workplace.

?Work environment, work-life balance, relationship with boss and co-workers, financial remuneration, resources available, growth opportunities, and autonomy are major factors that contribute to happiness.

?In today’s world, Impactful modern Leadership demands top drivers to adopt an empathetic and participative approach for personal improvement, exploration, and advancement.

?Remember, if you are impacted by toxicity and intolerance at workplace, you don’t need a therapist or a motivational speaker to scratch the surface; you need a Business Culture Coach to drive success from the root to the fruit.?

Note - I would like to end the article with the same line I began with - "The feeling your team members have in their gut or their minds on a Sunday evening about the upcoming Monday morning is a perfect parameter to define your company culture."

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The above pic is an Independent feedback of Netflix culture rated by its ex employee FYR -- I hope this helps!

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