Summary: To create a culture of empathy at work, everyone must actively participate by valuing positive behaviors and addressing poor conduct. Open communication, personal vulnerability, and supporting each other are essential for building strong connections among team members. A workplace that prioritizes empathy leads to better collaboration and overall success.
The culture of a workplace can be a fantastic asset, or a liability. It can drive you to go home and dream about early retirement. It can also drive you to put in an extra hour at work on a Friday night because you had something you really wanted to finish with the team. (View Highlight)
Culture is the set of behaviors your workplace rewards, and which it punishes. (View Highlight)
The culture of your workplace heavily impacted by your co-workers, particularly your leadership team. (View Highlight)
When we trade competence for rudeness, we implicitly say that we value ability to complete tasks over being a polite co-worker. (View Highlight)
If we value behaviors, we need to reward them. By rewarding these behaviors, we create a culture which values and creates more of those behaviors. (View Highlight)
Culture is a feedback loop. You don’t start at square zero and create a culture like you make a tray of muffins. You create a culture through every action you take. (View Highlight)
As culture is the average behavior of the people in the workplace, this means that the culture of a workplace is the responsibility of everyone on the team. (View Highlight)