How to Build an Exceptional Team (and a Positive Workplace Culture)
Hiring and talent growth are two of the most important pieces to grow an exceptional workplace culture over time. Here’s what to look for as you work towards a healthier corporate vibe.
Managing a workforce is significantly easier when you have a healthy and productive internal workplace culture. An exceptional team culture can also help with attracting customers, hiring impactful talent, and bringing the right investors and leadership to your business. Workplace culture can be a major key to unlocking productivity, longevity, and success for any business.
While specific office culture expectations may be dependent on the type of industry that you’re in, there are definitely some patterns that can be seen across all workplaces. Here are some places that you can get started to build a better corporate team.
Sharing Responsibility is Key (Learn to Delegate)
Leadership should always remember that the ultimate aim of the game in business is to delegate. Sharing responsibility with your employees is one of the most important pieces to building a healthy corporate culture. By properly delegating, employees are able to best use their skills and talent to push the business forward.
Relying on delegation as a management tactic also forces you to grow your team in ways that will best help the business at the time that you’re growing. For example, if you delegate payroll and invoicing duties to a new employee you will require a specific skill set to complete that labor. This natural growth through recognizing business needs allows leaders to better use their time for sales, strategy, oversight, and growth.
Being cognizant and self-aware is one of the most important parts of delegation. What can you handle best? What can your team members handle best? What are your current gaps in service? How can you improve those gaps over time? This is all part of big-picture delegation and corporate culture development over time.
Hire for Values (and Ability)
In North America, a majority of employees believe that culture is just as (or more) important than a company’s strategy or its operations. New hires should match your corporate values and should possess some demonstration of ability. It’s not necessarily about hard skills during the hiring process – get deeper than what you see on the resume. Get to know who your potential candidate is as a person and try to determine what their work ethic is like.
Does your candidate seem able and capable? Are they like-minded to yourself and your values? Do they provide insight or opinions that excite you? Is the candidate genuinely enthusiastic? All of these questions can help you find talent that is better aligned with your pursuit of growing a healthy corporate culture.
Provide a Great Onboarding Experience
Part of building the right corporate culture is starting where it counts with new hires. Designing a course that spans days or weeks can be a great way to help onboard new employees to ensure they feel comfortable in a vulnerable time.
During onboarding, new hires should meet the other coworkers that their job may be impacted by. New employees should also be well-trained on all tasks, programs, processes, and software that they need to know to complete their job. Demonstrating a bold dedication to employees’ professional development can win major points in your battle for better corporate culture. Provide support without question when it is needed.
It’s time to start hiring for better corporate culture!
As you continue on your path of leadership, don’t let corporate culture fall by the wayside. Employee retention, investor attraction, and customer satisfaction all rely on healthy corporate culture. Try some of these tactics during your hiring process and you may find that your business can soar to new heights!
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Gary Brunson
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Debra Rider
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