Are you interested in taking your company culture to the next level?
Most of us would agree that organizations that aspire to be successful need a strong, healthy, and engaged culture. Unfortunately, in the current business climate, organizations are struggling with rapid change, finding competitive advantage in a globalized economy, as well as finding, keeping, and motivating a changing workforce. An unhealthy organization culture is the single most important thing holding organizations back from achieving their business goals and strategies.
According to research, 75% of business leaders acknowledge the critical role of an effective workplace culture in their company’s success, but only one-third strongly agree their organization is effectively cultivating such a culture.
This isn’t “warm and fuzzy” math. The correlation between a strong culture and a strong bottom line is statistically significant. Financially strong companies, defined as those with an ROI of 30 percent or higher, are also strong in measurable aspects of corporate culture. On the other hand, financially weaker companies, defined as those with an ROI of 9 percent or lower, score low on those same measurements of culture.
So, what are the elements of an effective, resilient culture?
- Positive Leadership
- Purpose and Vision Driven
- Open and consistent communication
- Emotional Intelligence
- Personal Effectiveness
- Professional Development & Succession Planning
While we at Great Lakes Profiles can support all the above items, it’s the Emotional Intelligence of an organization’s leaders and employees that can have the most significant impact on the creation of a positive culture change. Simply put, Emotional Intelligence involves the ability to recognize, understand, and manage one’s own emotions as well as the emotions of others – and it can be learned. By developing greater self-awareness, empathy, relationship-building, and conflict resolution skills, leaders and employees can create a more positive and productive work environment and establish a culture that is more aligned with the organization’s values and goals.
We offer a Complimentary Culture Survey for clients
We all experience a wide range of pleasant and unpleasant feelings at work as we interact with others. These feelings influence our decisions, behavior, and performance in interesting ways.
Pleasant feelings have a ‘broaden and build’ effect causing us to think more broadly, engage more deeply, and perform better. Unpleasant emotions tend to have a ‘narrow and limiting’ effect, causing us to be more closed-minded, less engaging, and poorer at performing. Our customizable Emotional Culture Index has been designed to measure three dimensions of emotions at work:
- The Current State – How often employees experience certain positive and negative feelings at work,
- The Expected State – How often employees think it’s fair and reasonable to experience these feelings at work given the nature and context of the workplace, and
- The Ideal State – How often employees think they should ideally experience these feelings in the workplace to be effective.
So, what’s the culture like in your organization? It’s often been said, “You can’t manage (in this case change) what you don’t measure”. Our complimentary survey will provide you with a benchmark against which you can measure progress. After all, culture change isn’t something you can simply announce. It’s got to become part of the air your employees breathe and that only becomes possible through surveys, assessments, and reinforced training. Only when your leaders and employees have accepted the change as a part of their daily lives will you start to see positive changes in your organization’s culture.
Our Suite of Emotional Intelligence assessments, training programs, and supporting HR Consulting services can help you enhance your culture. Give us a call at (248) 388-0697 or reach out to us via email at [email protected]. We’re here to help you create a culture that supports your efforts in achieving your business goals and strategies.