To help you get the conversation started, here are some suggestions for workplace resolutions that will have the biggest impact on your workplace culture:
1. Great cultures don't happen by accident. You can't buy your culture at
Costco (even if you could it'd probably be too big). So resolve to be intentional this year about building a great
culture.
2. Look at what you're investing in your leadership training and development
and then triple the investment (unless, of course, your investment is zero, in
which case you should probably just put up the "For Sale" sign right
now). The investment will more than pay for itself for years to come.
3. Forget about writing another vision statement and instead focus on
nurturing visionaries in your
workplace.
4. Have less meetings and more real conversations.
5. Dive deeper for great ideas. Don't just listen to the highest-paid,
loudest or most eloquent voices; actively seek out the introverts, the cranks,
the disenfranchised and the oddballs. It wouldn't hurt to throw your
customers into that mix as well. Not to mention a few five-year-olds.
6. Recognize your unsung heroes and continually celebrate your small wins.
7. Have more fun. Even if having more fun doesn't help you achieve your
goals (it likely will, by the way) what would you rather have come the end of
2014 - the same level of success and less fun, or the
same level of success and more fun? Seems like an easy
choice to me. Happy 2014 everyone!
