Define Your Work Culture with Respect, Accountability & Cooperation
The biggest issue facing business leaders during a transition is that for many, the work culture in place pre-crisis wasn’t very healthy.
About Chris Edmonds
S. Chris Edmonds is a sought-after speaker, author, and executive consultant. He’s the founder and CEO of The Purposeful Culture Group, which he launched in 1990. Chris helps senior leaders build and sustain purposeful, positive, productive work cultures. He is the author or co-author of seven books, including Amazon bestsellers Good Comes First (2021) with Mark Babbitt, The Culture Engine (2014), and Leading at a Higher Level (2008) with Ken Blanchard.
Website: http://drivingresultsthroughculture.com/
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Posts by Chris Edmonds:
Your Work Culture Promotes or Prevents Bullying
Leaders must conduct regular values surveys that gather employee perceptions of how leaders behave daily.
Virtual Leadership Requires These 5 Skills
Virtual leadership must actively inspire teams to be purposeful, positive, and productive.
Leadership Legitimacy and Followership
If the department is not seen as serving the greater good, its organizational legitimacy is eroded, which inhibits the organization’s effectiveness.
Neuroplasticity, Work Culture and Employee Engagement
Unhealthy work cultures affect employees’ brains. Neuroplasticity causes their brains to react to the fearful, frustrating work culture they live in.
Accountability Fosters Better Results and More Respect
Accountability Fosters Better Results and More Respect
Take Charge of the Narrative
Find ways to maintain a narrative of good, provide a way to do good, and reward efforts to serve others both inside and outside of the workforce.
Respect before Results
Most leaders do not value their employees’ need for respect, validation, and recognition of their contributions and instead only value results.
Muscles and Work Culture
Muscles and work culture have a lot in common. For starters, muscles are incredibly powerful.
Firing or Reforming the Loose Cannon
Perhaps you have a loose cannon in your company. Maybe you have a player who performs well but often treats others with disdain and disrespect.