It’s their actions day in and day out that define your culture. It’s really your employees that bring your culture to life. “We use the word culture and employee engagement somewhat synonymously,” he says. In the oft-quoted words of management expert Peter Drucker: “ What gets measured, gets managed.”įor Stephen Huerta, Workify CEO and co-founder, there’s power in just asking the right questions. How often are YOU measuring whether your culture works?Īccording to Dustin, while many companies say their people are their biggest asset, most tend to measure their operational data daily and weekly - and their people, maybe once a year. I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it but when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be. - Scottish physicist Lord Kelvin, 1883 It’s pretty simple: to understand your company, you need to listen to your employees That’s why last year we got serious about employee feedback - with help from our friends at Workify - and starting using people-friendly tools like short online surveys and digital suggestion boxes to gather our team’s input anonymously. If you’re not motivating them, they’re not living up to their full potential - and neither is your company. I’m a firm believer that employees, especially millennials, want to have purpose and impact. According to Workify co-founder Dustin Wells, those surveys generally get about a 40-60% response rate and they’re done once a year. The thing is, how do we get people to openly share their experiences? And do it in ways that feel safe and meaningful?Īny old company can give their employees a survey. It’s funny because you and I both know that no employee wants a poster - they want a voice. has grown its poster business to include custom-made calendars, glassware, notecards, t-shirts, and books. founded Despair, Inc. to pitch a hilarious set of posters making fun of the greatest workplace joke ever. With those words, satirical front man E.L. Motivational posters don’t work - and demotivational posters don’t work even better.
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