WHAT IS A HEALTHY WORK-CULTURE?
A HEALTHY WORK-CULTURE STARTS WITH SELF-CARE
We all know the feeling, we dread going to work. Maybe not all the time, maybe not every day, but sometimes. However there are also work-place with such a toxic culture that it feels like a war-zone. Even leaders feel like that. A coaching client told me the other day, that she really wants to be there for her team, but she feels that it’s a fight against the culture. How can it be a fight AGAINST the culture to be there for your team? That’s what leadership is supposed to be.
But I get it. We used to think that the team is there for the leader and the leader is the shining hero. That’s old leadership and it’s not going to work in the future of work. Believe me. No-one thrives when they are not included in sharing the success and they are going to stop working for it. Wouldn’t you?
A healthy culture is not really about people running around being fit. It’s about people being seen, heard, included.
A healthy culture is where people care, because leadership cares about them.
A HEALTHY CULTURE IS A CULTURE OF CARE®
A Culture of Care® is inclusive of our diverse human needs and emotions at work, it is a well-being culture that supports physical, emotional, mental health as the foundation for peak-performance and burnout prevention.
A healthy culture that fuels high-performing teams, engagement and motivation from the inside out. It is inclusive, curious, bold, courageous, motivating, engaging and empathetic because it gives people the tools to take better care of themselves at work, reclaim their personal power and harness the human advantage that allows us to bring their best selves to work, without burning out and losing their health.
THAT MEANS WE HAVE TO BRING SELF-CARE WITH US TO WORK.
Self-care at work is how we can achieve, not only individual peak performance, creativity, success and happiness, but also organizational health, innovation and talent retention, because health is not the goal, it is the foundation for how we reach our goals.
CULTURE IS ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS, OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH SELF, OTHERS AND WORK.
Culture is not about benefits, culture is about relationships. A Culture of Care® is built on self-knowledge and being in right relationship with ourselves to affect to whole, so that we build collaboration and cohesion, that sparks a curious, creative, constructive culture where everyone thrives.
Each of us affect the culture because stress is contagious and so is wellbeing. How we take care of ourselves, take charge of our choices and show up at work, affects the culture, one person at a time. The root cause of an inclusive, diverse and healthy culture is to nourish our core human needs at work, fostering work-life quality where people belong, work better and go home happy with energy to spare.
