I am please
d to be joining Deborah Connors on November 29th to discuss daily practices than can transform workplace cultures. This session is part of Deborah’s 8-week on-line course on A Better Place To Work. Our focus that day will be on teams – how they can generate a positive culture that enhances team performance as well as team member well-being.
The practical question is how to create a culture in which all employees can thrive. I found some very helpful answers to this question in Deborah Connors’s new book, A Better Place to Work: .
Deborah advises anyone interested in improving their workplace to ask a simple yet powerful question: “What will you do differently to create a better place to work?” As a workplace change agent, it is essential to use this question as an opportunity to think beyond wellness or health promotion programs and resources that focus on individuals. A persistent focus on organizational culture is needed in order to create the enabling conditions for improving workplaces in ways that benefit employees, managers and external stakeholders.
The evidence-based practices recommended in Deborah’s book can be adapted to any type of organization. Examples highlight an important consideration for healthy workplace advocates: positive change won’t be successful or sustainable unless you build a culture that supports the change. This point helps to explain why well-intentioned healthy workplace initiatives often fall short of their goals.
To help break out of the inertia that stands in the way of change, you and your work colleagues can start by asking, ‘what new practices can lead to a better future in this workplace?’ Basically, this transformative question helps generate a shared vision that can guide you to co-create change.
8-Weeks To A Better Place To Work
This practical 8-week course is based on Deborah’s recently released book, “A Better Place To Work: Daily Practices That Transform Culture” which provides over 50 daily practices to support creativity, innovation and proactivity at work. For course outline and registration, visit this website.