7 Strategies for Creating a Culture of Caring at Your Business. Like most business professionals, you want your company to be successful. Are you forgetting to create a workplace where employees feel nurtured and engaged and are less likely to leave as soon as a better offer comes along? Let employees take the reins. No employee deserves to find out after the fact that they could have improved if they had only known what you wanted to see. By comparison, the same study showed that less than one-third of people working in a weakness-emphasized culture felt similarly. Your workers can’t be expected to work for a pittance. It’s impossible to keep talented workers if you aren’t willing to pay them wages that make them feel rewarded. Offer rewards and celebrate wins. Want to learn more about how you can take your recruiting process to the next level and better engage employees?
Teddy Roosevelt enjoyed a tough-guy persona, but one quote widely attributed to him shows his softer side: “No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care.” Those are profound words from a Rough Rider and wise ones to keep in mind as a leader.
Like most business professionals, you want your company to be successful. You focus on delivering phenomenal customer service and offering quality products. But are you overlooking something obvious on your road map to success? Are you forgetting to create a workplace where employees feel nurtured and engaged and are less likely to leave as soon as a better offer comes along?
In other words, are you showing you care?
From neighborhood mom-and-pop shops to Fortune 500 conglomerates, every business could benefit from a heavy dose of caring. In an environment where workplace stress is linked to a loss of $500 billion each year, as well as employee cardiovascular disease and death, caring is a much-needed commodity. Research shows that caring work environments lead to less worker burnout, more positivity, improved interpersonal engagements, heightened attentiveness to customer relations, and a better quality of life among personnel.
Clearly, caring belongs on any winning game plan.
Forging a Tight-Knit Culture of Caring
How does a culture of caring come to fruition? It’s the result of deliberate executive- and C-suite-level behaviors that trickle down to every individual and team. The perks of a caring culture are not medical benefits or vacation days — although those are important, too — but rather those little workday actions, reactions, and interactions that multiply over time.
Developing a caring culture starts with a few initial steps aimed at holding on to top talent and building an enviable dream team.
1. Know what drives and motivates your employees.
What do your workers love about their jobs? What keeps them excited and engaged? Don’t know? Just ask. Then use their answers to improve individual work experiences by allowing employees to explore their passions while remaining…
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