Creating the Positive Workplace

Have you ever had the experience of walking into a workplace and it feels really good? It is comfortable; the people are welcoming, easy to be with and friendly. It makes you feel at home.

As soon as you step into the place, you get a real sense that this is a great place to work.

Alternatively, have you ever walked into places where you feel awkward, put upon and unwelcome? You immediately feel the tension in the air.

I build value-based businesses. That’s my life’s work. Everything that I do in my life and work is an attempt to express what I value most. These positive places of work that you encounter are expressions of real values at work. The people in these businesses are behaving in keeping with the values that are espoused and practiced within them; everything that they do is informed by these values.

Our personal sense of Mission and Vision are lived out in and through the core values that we hold. Our overall behavior as a business only makes sense when values are kept and lived. They serve as a lens and filter for everything that we do, and when we fall short in keeping them, we judge ourselves and hold ourselves accountable to them.

The personal Mission of every successful business person and high-performing executive that I know is always in and around serving people in some way. Translating this personal sense of Mission, Vision and Values into our workplaces is critical in attracting customers and achieving success.