Culture, regardless of the setting, is simply a shared set of values, attitudes, behaviors, and standards that make up an environment. 77% of employees currently say they hate their job. This is a good indicator that the cultures within our companies are broken. When you consider that we spend ⅓ of our lives working, that means at least 77% of people spend ⅓ of their lives miserable.
How healthy is your culture?
There are three main ingredients, and every organization has them, but few actually employ them.
1. A Vision Statement
A vision statement helps everyone understand what the main goal is. This is what the organization hopes to achieve, the destiny that they are creating. Imagine what would happen if everyone in your organization or environment understood and shared the vision of what they were working toward. As an owner, manager, employer, or employee, is your vision clearly defined and is everyone unified around seeing that vision become reality?
2. Mission Statement
If a vision statement communicates the future, a mission statement communicates the present. It is a statement that gives clarity to how you’re going to work to make your vision a reality. For example, Walmart’s vision statement is to be the destination for customers to save money, no matter how they want to shop. Their mission statement is to save people money so they can live better. How do they achieve their vision? By doing the daily mission of saving people money.
I think many feel unfulfilled by their place of employment because there is no feeling of significance or purpose. But when you show up to a place every day that has a clear mission it gives you purpose. When you know that the part you play in your organization is a part of something bigger than yourself and it’s making a difference, it changes the way you see the work that you do.
3. Values
Values are the fundamental beliefs and principles that guide your organization. Values are what help to shape your company's culture. Values are important because these are the ways that everyone in your organization agree to work together.
Values help to keep everything in your organization in alignment. It brings clarity to what we will or will not do helping to reinforce the mission we are working on to achieve the vision that we see.
Do you employ these culture creating ingredients in your organization? Watch below to learn how you implement and employ these elements to shape the culture of your organization.
How healthy is your culture?
There are three main ingredients, and every organization has them, but few actually employ them.
1. A Vision Statement
A vision statement helps everyone understand what the main goal is. This is what the organization hopes to achieve, the destiny that they are creating. Imagine what would happen if everyone in your organization or environment understood and shared the vision of what they were working toward. As an owner, manager, employer, or employee, is your vision clearly defined and is everyone unified around seeing that vision become reality?
2. Mission Statement
If a vision statement communicates the future, a mission statement communicates the present. It is a statement that gives clarity to how you’re going to work to make your vision a reality. For example, Walmart’s vision statement is to be the destination for customers to save money, no matter how they want to shop. Their mission statement is to save people money so they can live better. How do they achieve their vision? By doing the daily mission of saving people money.
I think many feel unfulfilled by their place of employment because there is no feeling of significance or purpose. But when you show up to a place every day that has a clear mission it gives you purpose. When you know that the part you play in your organization is a part of something bigger than yourself and it’s making a difference, it changes the way you see the work that you do.
3. Values
Values are the fundamental beliefs and principles that guide your organization. Values are what help to shape your company's culture. Values are important because these are the ways that everyone in your organization agree to work together.
Values help to keep everything in your organization in alignment. It brings clarity to what we will or will not do helping to reinforce the mission we are working on to achieve the vision that we see.
Do you employ these culture creating ingredients in your organization? Watch below to learn how you implement and employ these elements to shape the culture of your organization.
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Brandon Matthews
Brandon is passionate about bringing meaning back to the marketplace. These are practical and applicable principles for your organization.
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