Nurturing and Fostering a Positive Company Culture
“Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.” Wayne Dyer’s thoughts. Every organization’s employer-employee relationship across the globe will resonate with this thought so well expressed by the writer. Both the employer-employee come together to start an organization that with their vision and foresight will grow, flourish and prosper in abundance but which they both have to nurture with their love, patience, hard work, and dedication and at the same time foster it with a lot of patience, friendship, a sense of belonging and trust. There are many tangible benefits to all the time that we invest in an organization in our entire lifetime but think of all the intangible benefits and the personal growth that comes with it. Is all this possible when the organization works in a toxic environment? These are some of the key pointers that will help us nurture a positive work culture that will promote employee job satisfaction and security. Let’s find out.
Evaluate Long-term Employees
Happy employees who have been in the company for many years, the reasons are that they have been offered continuous opportunities for growth, experimentation, and risk. If the company has allowed a valuable employee to stay on whose continuous efforts through the ability to experiment and risk-taking have yielded growth and prosperity then this one factor alone tells us the values on which the organization was built. Feel free to ask new co-workers who have joined prior to you about their experiences of working with the current organization.
Nurture Friendships
Having like-minded and great colleagues on the professional front is indeed wonderful, but do not let that remain within the four walls of the company. Nurture these friendships even outside the office because you trust that the professional dynamics will also be just as positive. While a lot of corporate politics, back-biting, and rumor-mongering prevails among employers and colleagues, just make sure to stay at bay from all these negative and attention-seeking dramas. Instead, foster a positive environment of friendship and positivity by making everyone look forward to coming to work daily.
A Positive Environment Impacts Employee Well-Being
An encouraging and positive work environment contributes to the mental and physical well-being of employees. It motivates the employee to come to work daily no matter how far he lives or how bad the weather may be. Employers who attend regular workshops to upgrade their skills and expertise are encouraged to shower praise, express gratitude or say a thank you to colleagues who have performed exceptionally well for the company by giving a gift or treating them to an exclusive dinner party to express their emotions. In such a positive environment employees stick to their jobs right up to their retirement age. Employees have the greatest respect and admiration for a caring and empathetic boss. After all, ‘Leaders are people who lead from the front by hand holding their followers.’ Kindness and compassion go a long way in forging strong bonds in human relationships. Every employee deserves a good boss. Isn’t it?
A Positive Environment Promotes Job Satisfaction
Job satisfaction is one of the major factors that make people stick to one company for many years. Nobody likes to work in a toxic work culture where individuals or a group of people are busy tarnishing the image of other employees and the company as well. Transparency and open-mindedness are the two important factors that people love and want it from all levels of management and they will put their heart and soul into their work. Even if the paycheck is less there are many employees who stick to their favorite workplace only for its culture and the values that they uphold and the rest follows on their own. Money is not the single most reason that employees want to stick to one organization, they are also looking for a great work culture that is conducive to personal growth and professional success.
Positive Work Culture Fosters a Higher Purpose
Human beings do not want to limit themselves to just earning a monthly salary, they seek a higher purpose in life. Once an individual settles in with his company and achieves job satisfaction and a great work culture, he aims at achieving a higher purpose in life and in this way he keeps himself engaged in the growth of the company. A higher purpose for the company will also lead to high levels of productivity and peak performance. In this way, the company entrusts him with important projects and valuable information that they expect the employee to respect and honor.
Customer Satisfaction
Employees are the direct representatives of the company and when meeting a customer the employees’ commitment and integrity towards the company are reflected in the way he interacts with their customer. An employee acts like a glue between the customer and the company by binding them together. If the employee keeps the interest of the company at heart and delivers results on time then he/she is a valuable asset to the company.
These are some of the ways organizations can work towards nurturing as well as fostering a great work culture for the mutual benefit of both the employer and the employee. In the long run what matters is not the profits that you have earned but the people’s lives that you have impacted in your own way. Get inspired and continue to inspire all the people whom you meet in this journey called life.
