Healthy Workplace Wins

Your long-term success comes from a healthy workplace culture...

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Get big business wins in your business with a healthy workplace culture…

Because your business matters to you, invest in its health…

Make time to decide on the values and beliefs that are important to you and the future of your business…

Time to take the health of your business seriously…

What happens to you and your team when you build the right workplace culture in your business?

Why risk the future of your business by not making the values of your business part of its culture?

What if the short and long-term prosperity of your business depends on the health of your workplace culture?

Build the right workplace culture for your business, discover the fallout for BrewDog when they got this wrong

BrewDog got it wrong when it came to the health of your business, learn how to get it right…

Why can BrewDog getting it wrong teach you how to get it right when it comes to investing in the culture of your business?

Stop thinking all businesses take the health of their business seriously – learn from BrewDog…

The stats don’t lie when it comes to successful investment in the health of your business…

How to ensure your team are engaged in the health of your business?

Secure the future of your business by ensuring your team are engaged…

What would your business look like with a healthy workplace culture?

Stop investing in just being smarter, time to invest in also being healthier…

Are you and your team investing in the right things when it comes to the health of your business?

Learn about how to build a healthy workplace culture for your business…

What does a healthy workplace culture look like?

Why risk the health of your business by not learning from 1.8 million team members?

Gallup research proves that the health of your business really matters…

Start your marathon to a healthy business now…

Time to listen to the research and invest in a healthy workplace culture like Leon did…

Invest in the right things in your business, like Leon did…

Leon the restaurant chain took the health of their business seriously, can you?

Divine intervention provided the philosophy for success in one business, what’s your philosophy?

Why risk lost profits in your business, get the core values of your business right like Leon did…

What happens when your core business values generate a healthy workplace culture?

Don’t imagine what a healthy workplace culture would look like in your business – live it!

Change the fortunes of your business by building a set of values and core beliefs for your business…

Time to work with your team on the values and principles that are important to your business…

Start the values conversation with your team today and build a healthy workplace culture…

Time to work out what behavioural standards you want to guide you and your business…

You only get long-term success from a healthy workplace culture

Ensure the long-term success of your business by investing in a healthy culture

Why wouldn’t you want to ensure the future of your business with a healthy work culture?

A healthy workplace culture ensures a healthy business, take the time to get it right…

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1. The future of your business relies heavily on the commitment and dedication of your team. If they are unhappy in their work, then your business will underperform. Have you ever stopped to address this issue? Click here to learn why a happy workforce equals a happy business and the importance of this to your future success.

2. The performance of your team is linked to the overall health of your business. When your people are committed to your business, its beliefs, values and principles, they will work harder, go the extra mile and be dedicated to the work that they do. Time to take the health of your business seriously… Click here to learn more.

3. The health of your business determines its success. A healthy workplace culture means your business will be profitable and your team will be productive, an unhealthy business will mean the opposite happens. Click here to learn how BrewDog got it wrong but how you, and your team can get it right.

4. BrewDog was founded in a shed in Aberdeen in 2007. To an outsider BrewDog looks like a successful business, with loyal customers and shareholders, click here to learn how they got it wrong when it came to creating a healthy workplace culture in their business and how when you get it right you secure the long-term prosperity of your business.

5. How engaged, inspired, satisfied or dissatisfied are your team? When you answer this question, you start to see the missing discretionary effort that could be invested and working in your business with more inspired and engaged team members. Click here to discover how to tap into this discretionary energy and that when you do you tap into your teams untapped potential.

6. Create a healthy workplace culture in your business by tapping into the discretionary energy of your team and therefore tapping into your teams untapped potential. This is potential that can be used to grow your business and secure its future. Click here to take the workplace culture in your business seriously.

7. When you invest in a healthy workplace culture, it means a healthy business. A healthy business means greater profits, less hassle, happier customers and an engaged team. Leon the restaurant chain got it right, with great results for them, their team and the growth of their business. Click here to discover what can you learn from them?

8. Time pressures, staff shortages, cash flow, customers, meetings, team problems, these are all the reasons you might use to not invest the time and effort to change the health of your workplace culture… BUT, these are actually all the reasons that you should… Click here to learn more…

9. Have you ever considered how important your workplace culture is to the long- term prosperity of your business?
Most business owners only invest time and energy on getting smarter (rather than healthier) by focusing on the tangible, easier to measure aspects of their business, but click here to discover the benefits to your business when you also focus on the health of your workplace culture.

10. To build a healthy workplace culture you must establish a set of behavioural standards (values) you want your business and every member of your team to live by. Your values should influence the decisions and actions taken in your business and feature in everything you and your team do. Click here to learn how Leon did it right and how you can do the same.

11. If I asked you what the personality of your business was, what would be your response? Click here to learn what Patrick Lencioni says about the importance of a healthy workplace culture to the future of your business, in his book ‘The Advantage’

12. Patrick Lencioni believes that with right values in place you will attract the right employees and repel the wrong ones; attract the right customers and repel the wrong ones...Sounds like it’s worth taking the time to invest in the health of your workplace culture… Click here to discover what a healthy workplace culture looks like..

13. It pays to take your business values seriously, so that you can build, maintain and nurture a healthy workplace culture. Your commitment to your business values and behavioural standards will have a positive impact on everyone’s attitude, drive up the level of enthusiasm in your team and tap into their discretionary effort and untapped potential. Click here to learn more.

14. Get the health of your workplace culture wrong, like BrewDog and VW and it’s costly. Get it right like Leon in the UK and Southwest Airlines in the US and everyone will know that you take the health of your business seriously. Click here for 4 helping hands to get you started.

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Blog 1 – Secure the future of your business when you build a healthy workplace culture…

The future of your business relies heavily on the commitment and dedication of your team.

If they are unhappy in their work, then your business will underperform.

Have you ever stopped to address this issue?

The performance of your team is linked to the overall health of your business, they are intrinsic to your future, so surely investing in your workplace culture is worthwhile?

When your people are committed to your business, its beliefs, values and principles, they will work harder, go the extra mile and be dedicated to the work that they do.

When your workplace culture is the bedrock of your business and at the heart of how you operate as a manager or business leader, then this culture will naturally flow through you, your team and the decisions you make.

The short and long-term prosperity of your business depends on the health of your workplace culture.

Click here to discover how you and your team can build and nurture a healthy workplace culture by fostering the right behaviours and values and living them in your business.

Blog 2 – What happens when you don’t invest in the health of your business – learn from BrewDog…

The health of your business determines its success.

A healthy workplace culture means your business will be profitable, your team will be productive, and you will all be invested in the same core behaviours, based on the principles and values YOU have instilled in the culture of the business.

An unhealthy business will do the polar opposite.

Let’s talk Beer. Take BrewDog – Beer for Punks! This is their tagline.

BrewDog was founded by friends James Watt and Martin Dickie in an Aberdeen shed in 2007. It has grown to have breweries in the UK, US and Australia including a carbon-negative brewing and bar complex at Ellon near Aberdeen.

To an outsider BrewDog looks like a successful business, with loyal customers and shareholders, a business that you would probably want to work for!

What do you think your business looks like to an outsider?

But in June 2021 BrewDog were accused of ‘promoting a toxic culture of fear in the workplace’ by a group of ex-employees – not very Punk!

Even worse when you consider that one of their core beliefs is:

‘We believe in being a great employer’.

James Watt publicly apologised through a series of videos and statements, but the kick back on social media meant that there was nowhere to hide. Especially as these behaviours were in direct contradiction of BrewDogs stated values, leaving people to call into question the health of the business.

Clearly an unhealthy workplace culture is costly. What is even more costly is saying you have a healthy workplace culture when you don’t.

Build a healthy workplace culture in your business, but make it real, be sure to establish a set of values you want your business to live by and then have everyone in your business live by those values! Don’t fall short like BrewDog! In this social media world of information being everywhere, there is no room for cutting corners and your business will suffer if you do.

Click here to create a genuinely healthy workplace culture in your business and really be punk!

Blog 3 – Release the untapped potential of your team by investing in a healthy workplace culture…

How engaged, inspired, satisfied or dissatisfied are your team?

When you answer this question, you start to see the missing discretionary effort that could be invested and working in your business with more inspired and engaged team members.

Tap into this discretionary energy and you tap into your teams untapped potential.

Potential that can be used to grow and build your team and your business.

Worth investing time and effort in?

Worth taking the workplace culture in your business seriously?

The stats don’t lie…

Research from international consulting firm Bain & Co shows that less than 20% of employees in most businesses feel inspired about their work. 20% feel engaged and the rest are either satisfied or dissatisfied.

For your business this means that potentially 60% of your team are ambivalent – just getting through the day – neither enthusiastic nor unenthusiastic, just going through the motions.

Think about the difference to your business if you could change this?

Further research by Bain & Co shows that inspired employees are 125% more productive than satisfied ones and more than 300% more productive than unsatisfied ones.

Why waste this untapped potential in your business?

Clearly a team invested in the behaviours, beliefs and values of your business is worth building?

Click here to build a healthy workplace culture in your business – start by having a values conversation with your team.

Blog 4 – Choose the right guiding philosophy for your business…

Changing the health of your business cannot be done overnight, but if you wait for the right time then the change will never come.

Time pressures, staff shortages, cash flow, customers, meetings, team problems, these are all the reasons you might use to not invest the time and effort to change the health of your workplace culture…

BUT, these are actually all the reasons that you should…

Gallup describe the journey to full employee engagement in your healthy workplace culture as a marathon not a sprint, but they also describe what must be done to achieve this employee engagement.

Credence must be given to their research when you consider they surveyed more than 82,000 teams, over 1.8 million employees in 230 businesses, across 49 sectors in 73 countries.

What they showed was that engaged employees produce better business outcomes than other employees, across industry, business size and country, in good times and bad. Engaged teams have:

21% higher profitability
40% fewer quality defects
10% high customer ratings

When you invest in a healthy workplace culture, it means a healthy business. A healthy business means greater profits, less hassle, happier customers and an engaged team.

BrewDog got this wrong, but many businesses get it right and you could be one of them.

Leon the restaurant chain got it right, with great results for them, their team and the growth of their business, what can we learn from them?

Click here to learn what Leon did right when it came to truly living the workplace culture in their business.

Blog 5 – Learn, from the restaurant chain Leon, the importance of a healthy workplace culture…

Have you ever considered how important your workplace culture is to the long- term prosperity of your business?

Most business owners only invest time and energy on getting smarter (rather than healthier) by focusing on the tangible, easier to measure aspects of their business.

However to build a healthy workplace culture you must establish a set of behavioural standards (values) you want your business and every member of your team to live by.

Your values should influence your decisions and actions on a daily and weekly basis and feature in all aspects of your business – team meetings, customer meetings, operations, strategy, sales, marketing, recruitment, training, appraisals.

Here is a great story of a business that got it right…

Leon opened its first restaurant in Carnaby Street, London, in 2004, with a second restaurant opening a year later in Ludgate.

At the start of 2021 they had a chain of 70+ restaurants, an impressive menu (featuring a wide range of vegetarian and vegan food) and have recently been bought by the EG Group for £100m…

But do you think they have a healthy workplace culture?

When you hear that their guiding philosophy is “If God did fast food!” then you would think they are aiming their standards pretty high!

They have navigated their way to this level of healthy and profitable success with behavioural standards for their business. Their core values are:

Sourcing (of great food and ingredients)
Society (caring for staff; community; customers)
Environment (Reduce; Recycle; Reuse; Natural; No waste)

During the pandemic they turned their restaurants into shops and takeaways, providing a home delivery or click and collect service. This secured jobs for their staff, ensured they were in contact with their community and that their customers could still enjoy their menu. They gave NHS workers a 50% discount and gave any profit made during this period to the NHS.

Leon’s team are living their core beliefs and values, they are at the heart of every business decision. And if you have ever eaten or purchased food from a Leon you will have observed how upbeat and engaging their staff are (even at 6.05am on a Tuesday at Birmingham Train Station!).

This is what a healthy workplace culture looks like.

Click here to take time-out with your team to work on your business values and core beliefs, it paid off for Leon and it can pay off for you.

Blog 6 – What does a healthy workplace culture look like for your business?

In his book ‘The Advantage – Why Organisational Health Trumps Everything Else’ Patrick Lencioni states:

‘More than anything else values are critical because they define your business’s personality’.

If I asked you what the personality of your business was, what would be your response?

He also states that with the right values in place you will attract the right employees and repel the wrong ones; attract the right customers and repel the wrong ones...

Sounds like it’s worth taking the time to invest in the health of your workplace culture…

Your workplace culture needs to be a direct reflection of all the decisions, actions and behavioural work habits of you and your team.

A healthy workplace culture will give your business a competitive edge, an advantage over your greatest rivals and yet most business owners ignore it.

So, what does a healthy workplace culture look like?

If you sat down with your team and asked them what a healthy work culture looked like they would probably come up with a list like the one suggested by Patrick Lencioni in his book ‘The Advantage’:

Minimal politics
High Productivity
Minimal confusion
Low staff turnover
High morale

However most business leaders tend to invest time and energy on getting smarter, instead of healthier by focusing on the easy to measure areas of their business:

Strategy
Marketing
Finance
Technology

It’s true, both are required, but fail with the first (healthy) list and your efforts on the second (smarter) list will be pointless.

However, succeed on the first list and your efforts on the second list will be multiplied!

Click here to establish the right set of values for you and your team so that they sponsor success in both the healthy and smart areas of your business.

Blog 7 – Your healthy ‘workplace wins’ checklist to ensure your healthy business future…

It pays to take your business values seriously, so that you can build, maintain and nurture a healthy workplace culture.

Your commitment to your business values and behavioural standards will have a positive impact on everyone’s attitude, drive up the level of enthusiasm in your team and tap into their discretionary effort and untapped potential.

Get it wrong, like BrewDog and VW and it’s costly. Get it right like Leon in the UK and Southwest Airlines in the US and everyone will know that you take the health of your business seriously.

When you invest time and effort in building a clear set of behavioural values you make your intentions clear to everyone involved in your business, such clarity builds trust with people, team members, customers and other stakeholders.

When you establish, agree and live by your values, they become embedded in the culture of your business. You will then earn the right to the positive financial rewards associated with a healthy workplace culture.

Here are 4 helping hands to get you started:

1) Take organisational health seriously (as well as being smarter)

2) Work with your team to identify a handful of behavioural standards or values. When you have worked out 3, 4 or 5 together you can start putting them to work. Make you core values verb-focused – For example: Be present; Care wholeheartedly; Embrace change; Seek understanding; Set high standards; Support each other. Your team will then know what’s expected of them.

3) Use your weekly team meetings to bring your values to life. Have your team share stories that reflect the values every week. A small 5-person team we know share their values in every team meeting, this has been happening now for several years and they are going from strength to strength.

4) Embed your values in all aspects of your business (walk your talk). Shouldn’t your values show up in appraisals, interviews, on your website, in policy documents and in all meetings, including those with customers.

Click here to include your whole team in the discussion about your workplace values. Use the right questions and the right standards to assess your values and then commit to this set of core beliefs to ensure an engaged team and business success.

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