A HEALTHY WORK ENVIRONMENT
Customers will never love a company until the employees love it first.
-Simon Sinek
Today, more than ever, a healthy, engaged, and thriving work environment is imperative. Employees do their best to balance work life, mental health, and family life while organization leaders balance economic fluctuations, compliance concerns, and maintaining as consistent a work environment as possible.
So what does a healthy work environment look like?
Here are five elements of a healthy work environment to consider:
Proven Trust: there are shared experiences that have demonstrated to others that their colleagues are trust worthy and have integrity.
Honest Communication: there’s attention given to what and how something is said while also maintaining an open mind, with understanding, when receiving what is said.
Collaboration: there’s inter and intra-departmental projects allowing or diverse thoughts and perspectives in creating solutions.
Lessons Learned: there’s understanding when mistakes and missteps occur, which creates learning opportunities.
Celebration: there’s a celebratory acknowledgement of jobs done well by individuals and teams as well as organizational successes that impact all employees.
REFLECTION QUESTIONS
1) Which of the five elements of a healthy organization does your company do well?
2) In which of the five elements of a healthy organization does your company need improvement?
3) In what tangible ways will you positively impact the areas where your company needs to improve?