The New Corporate Possibility

January 31, 2012 by ·

I recently spoke with Russ Sabia, a Principal Consultant with The Table Group–a Patrick Lencioni company, and was inspired to share my vision and what I know to be true about the new corporate possibility.

Healthy, productive and profitable companies require a strong, supportive, collaborative, and productive culture and an environment in which people enjoy working and feel valued. When employees are treated as equal, important, and worthy of being heard they offer terrific solutions and high quality, consistent work.   

In today’s competitive and fast-paced business environment, it is the company’s top management team who drives the culture. The leaders must build collaboration and trust with each other before they can create it in the organization. Once leaders accomplish this, positive change spreads rapidly throughout an organization; but only if lead from the top.

At Conscious Success LLC, we know that:

  • It is possible to create a collaborative and highly functioning work environment in any company.
  • Employees within this type of environment know their work is valued and their effort and results skyrocket.
  • An employee who feels fulfilled in his work and feels valued by his organization, reaches his highest potential, and puts forth more creative, accurate and valuable work.
  • When the executive team solicits and acts upon feedback they model trust and collaboration within their company. They demonstrate that these are the working principles they value.
  • When a company’s executive team embraces and models collaboration, it filters down through the organization, employees feel the results and profitability soars.

Companies who embrace this commitment to collaboration:

  • Maximize their employees’ potential.
  • Transform their environment into one with collaborative teams focused on achieving the company’s highest goals.
  • Enjoy the benefits to their bottom line of self-motivated, creative and enthusiastic employees at all levels.
  • Create greater trust in their organization by facilitating open communication.
  • Increase the emotional and social intelligence of their staff which can increase profits by 20-30%.
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The Hidden Cost of Presenteeism

January 24, 2012 by ·

Distractions are costly to any employer*. Typical distractions include social networking, e-mail, web surfing and conversations with co-workers. However, there is a more insidious distraction which causes additional expense to a company. The term "presenteeism" is often referred to as employees coming to work sick. These employees spread their germs throughout the office and are much less productive.

Another form of "presenteeism" is employees coming to work distracted by uncertainty and problems.

Most people feel uncertain about at least one of these items: job status, company changes/longevity, health, family, economy, financial markets, personal finances, environment and world issues. Coming to work thinking about these uncertainties is hugely distracting. Employees are less productive, less creative and communicate less effectively when these distractions create mental clutter.

Companies who offer their employees techniques to focus and decrease distractions (and the stress associate with the uncertainty) benefit with increased employee morale and profits and decreased medical claims, attrition and absenteeism. The investment in these programs is recovered many times over with money and time saved in recruiting, hiring, re-training and medical plan premiums.

Profits are increased as customer service and sales improve, fewer mistakes are made, and employees create more innovative solutions.

*CBS reported workplace distractions cost employers over $10,000 per year, per employee–that's over $10,000 per year for an employee earning $30 per hour. A company with 200 employees loses over $2,000,000 per year.

 


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