For a team player, winning makes it easier to respect and listen to others. Because after all, if you win together, then you want to make everyone a good player. Winners maintain high aspirations and generosity toward others.
“A positive workplace is more successful over time because it increases positive emotions and well-being. This, in turn, improves people’s relationships with each other and amplifies their abilities and their creativity. It buffers against negative experiences such as stress, thus improving employees’ ability to bounce back from challenges and difficulties while bolstering their health. And, it attracts employees, making them more loyal to the leader and to the organization as well as bringing out their best strengths. When organizations develop positive, virtuous cultures they achieve significantly higher levels of organizational effectiveness—including financial performance, customer satisfaction, productivity, and employee engagement.” —Harvard Business Review, “Proof That Positive Work Cultures Are More Productive”.
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We hear numerous investors and start-up gurus talk about “pivoting”. They mean that once the business plan comes together, along with data analysis and customer needs, the company finds it needs to pivot to a new direction if the team wants a realistic chance of winning. Perhaps you’ve experienced this frustration or challenge related to re-purposing your assets.
Or maybe you’re just stuck.
Don’t go to your physician looking for a prescription for depression meds. You don’t need it. At the same time, you must be authentic about whether your passion and skills are aligned with what you truly want to achieve. Now is the time to get your head around your strengths, focus, passion, and the results you want. This is where you establish the new baseline of your culture.
Humans are creatures of habit. Whole business and pharmaceutical ecosystems have grown up from recognizing that people cannot overcome their fear of uncertainty, so they keep doing what they have always done and hope for the best. As the saying goes, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results.”
And, as Garth Brooks sings in The River, “Life is like a river, ever changing as it flows.” A positive life and work cultures require nurturing, nurturing, and more nurturing as your players begin to respond to the contagion of your engaged winners.
A positive culture affords employees respect while expecting quality work every day. A positive environment often encourages collaboration. Leadership trusts the experience and decision-making of the employees, allowing them to take on projects without constantly hovering over them or correcting them. A positive leader is emotionally intelligent and gets comfortable with change—listening, allowing, and giving frequent positive reinforcement.
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