Below are excerpts from an excellent article which appeared on Inc.
Why Your Team Doesn’t Care: Are You Crushing Your Culture?
By CHRISTINE COMAFORD
Are your team members highly accountable? Do they have a “Thank God It’s Monday” attitude? Do they take tons of initiative? If not, you’ve probably got Crushed Culture.
It’s a disease. And it’s going to become an epidemic if we don’t do something about it. According to a recent Gallup poll on employee engagement:“Currently, 30 percent of the U.S. workforce is engaged in their work… the vast majority of U.S. workers (70 percent) are not reaching their full potential-a problem that has significant implications for the economy and the individual performance of American companies.”
Does this concern you?
[The article then goes on to decribe "Three steps to cure “Crushed Culture”, and you can learn the details about how to apply them in the article.
1. Emotional Equity > Financial Equity. We all know what financial equity is-money (stock, comp packages, golden handcuffs). All the things we think will make people loyal to a company and keep them engaged. But this no longer works, as Gallup proves. Nope, we all want to feel like we’re part of something bigger, like our work matters, like we’ll leave the world just a little better than we found it, and we want to achieve that (in part) during our work hours.
2. Stop The Whining. The C suite, management, staff-;everyone-;needs to get off what I call the Tension Triangle, bouncing from victim to rescuer to persecutor. Stephen Karpman, MD, first created this as the Dreaded Drama Triangle or DDT. The DDT is comprised of three roles: Victim (where someone is “doing” to them), Rescuer (who tries to remove the Victim’s suffering), and Persecutor (who the Victim blames for their suffering).
3. Career Path-or Exit Strategy.Dave Peacock, President of Anheuser-Busch, recently shared their refreshing approach to team member reviews. Each team member knows exactly where they stand…When a team member knows theirnext two potential roles, and what exactly they need to do to grow, they are loyal and engaged.
