Team Building And Business Growth
Team Building And Business Growth
A good workplace culture reinforces the sorts of values and behaviour you want, and weakens attitudes and actions you don't want. But a weak culture gives little guidance or direction to your team, allowing all sorts of inappropriate actions and behaviour.
Does your company inspire loyalty, dedication, creativity and motivation? Does your business culture challenge staff to learn, improve and grow? As a business owner, you must ask yourself these questions. And you need to find positive answers.
Businesses generally concentrate on quantifiable outputs such as profit, market share or growth, while neglecting three key factors that vitally affect not just success, but long term survival.
Fun
Teams that play together work together. Having fun at work is important, not just in creating a positive team environment, but also in raising morale, boosting confidence and reducing staff turnover. Having fun helps maintain a positive attitude to work, and generates commitment and job satisfaction.
You can see this in the enormous popularity of the Fish! video, which has been rented and watched by countless company managers and executives. (But it’s often another story when you ask about their success with getting that approach to work in their own company!)
Introducing occasional novel or unusual workshop sessions into your workplace does not have to take all day, does not have to cost a lot of money, and can more than repay the “lost” time in increased productivity, less sick days, and better loyalty, bonding, cooperation and efficiency between sections.
Attitude
There is always a choice about the way you do your work, even if there is not a choice about the work itself. And this applies to staff as well as to business owners and managers.
But can be hard to maintain a positive attitude where a business is arranged in “silos”. The back office staff might never have met some of the production people or sales people; and the storeroom or warehouse staff might never have interacted with the office or shop floor staff.
Look for opportunities to get your staff together, and encourage people to choose a positive attitude to their job, their colleagues and their customers or clients. In doing so, people commit themselves to do the best job they can.
Relationships
Because success is often about who you know, not what you know, it depends in large part on the quality of our working relationships with others.
In any business, management and staff work better together when they have plentiful opportunities to interact.
Enjoyable team building activities can let participants see the people they work with in a different light. That can in turn lead to improved working relationships and enhanced productivity into the future.
Make sure you do what you can to build a strong, healthy, productive workplace culture.
Team Building And Business Growth - To learn more about this author, visit Susan Regier's Website.
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Every business has it’s own distinctive culture – “the way things are done around here”.
A good workplace culture reinforces the sorts of values and behaviour you want, and weakens attitudes and actions you don't want. But a weak culture gives little guidance or direction to your team, allowing all sorts of inappropriate actions and behaviour.
Does your company inspire loyalty, dedication, creativity and motivation? Does your business culture challenge staff to learn, improve and grow? As a business owner, you must ask yourself these questions. And you need to find positive answers.
Businesses generally concentrate on quantifiable outputs such as profit, market share or growth, while neglecting three key factors that vitally affect not just success, but long term survival.
Fun
Teams that play together work together. Having fun at work is important, not just in creating a positive team environment, but also in raising morale, boosting confidence and reducing staff turnover. Having fun helps maintain a positive attitude to work, and generates commitment and job satisfaction.
You can see this in the enormous popularity of the Fish! video, which has been rented and watched by countless company managers and executives. (But it’s often another story when you ask about their success with getting that approach to work in their own company!)
Introducing occasional novel or unusual workshop sessions into your workplace does not have to take all day, does not have to cost a lot of money, and can more than repay the “lost” time in increased productivity, less sick days, and better loyalty, bonding, cooperation and efficiency between sections.
Attitude
There is always a choice about the way you do your work, even if there is not a choice about the work itself. And this applies to staff as well as to business owners and managers.
But can be hard to maintain a positive attitude where a business is arranged in “silos”. The back office staff might never have met some of the production people or sales people; and the storeroom or warehouse staff might never have interacted with the office or shop floor staff.
Look for opportunities to get your staff together, and encourage people to choose a positive attitude to their job, their colleagues and their customers or clients. In doing so, people commit themselves to do the best job they can.
Relationships
Because success is often about who you know, not what you know, it depends in large part on the quality of our working relationships with others.
In any business, management and staff work better together when they have plentiful opportunities to interact.
Enjoyable team building activities can let participants see the people they work with in a different light. That can in turn lead to improved working relationships and enhanced productivity into the future.
Make sure you do what you can to build a strong, healthy, productive workplace culture.
Team Building And Business Growth - To learn more about this author, visit Susan Regier's Website.
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