It’s important for leadership to be proactive in fostering the workplace culture, rather than letting it evolve without direction or intention.
A positive workplace culture drives staff engagement, satisfaction and performance, and attracts talent and clientele.
A tense, negative or toxic workplace culture puts you and your staff at risk of costly mistakes, low productivity, high staff turnover, complaints or grievances, which ultimately has a negative impact on your organisation’s performance.
Attending to your workplace culture on a regular basis should be a fundamental part of your risk management plan.
It can take 3-5 years to create a long-lasting positive change to workplace culture but only a couple of days to ruin it. Leaders who fail to make culture count in their organisation will inevitably face the serious issues associated with a toxic workplace culture.
Our advice to employers, directors, executives and HR Managers is to take a holistic approach to achieving your desired organisational culture. This means looking at the whole picture and using a range of tools and strategies.
MAKING CULTURE COUNT is a training and development program offered by WorkPlacePLUS, designed to support leaders to proactively and consistently manage their workplace culture, including how to identify and mitigate the risks of a toxic workplace. This program includes best practice tools for managing workplace conflict and fostering long term cultural change.
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