HEALTHY, HIGH-PERFORMING cultures
The most critical asset for an organization’s long-term success is a healthy culture. A healthy culture is one that is both challenging and restorative; trusting and compassionate; people-centered and growth-oriented. It is committed to excellence and to the creation of value for all stakeholders.
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BUILDING A healthy, high-performing CULTURE
While healthy cultures have many characteristics in common,
here are some areas we think every culture should embrace.
Trust & Transparency
The most critical element of a healthy culture is trust. Trust is built on one’s belief in others, shared common values, and authentic relationships. Transparency is key to trust—empower senior leaders and individuals to share openly in a constructive way. When team-oriented people can work within an environment of trust, they experience safe and secure teams, which leads to better collaboration, higher performance, and more innovative, productive, and positive outcomes.
Connection, Inclusion, & Engagement
Trust takes the development of authentic relationships, which start with connection. Authentic connection opens hearts and minds to broader inclusion of people with diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and cultural practices. When individuals are thriving and able to bring their best selves to work, they can show up at the team level and engage in the broader high-performing organization. Greater connection, belonging, and inclusion lead to stronger employee engagement.
Well-being & Mental Health
Work is a complex combination of our talents, skills, and context, plus our relationships, connections, mindsets, and overall wellness. Work can appropriately be challenging; but it can also induce stress. Healthy cultures reduce stress by giving attention to employee well-being, which includes physical, spiritual, relational, and mental health. While many organizations address aspects of these, there is not a single issue that affects business performance more than mental health.
Employee Experience
At the root of business performance and culture is the experience of employees. From before their first interview to beyond their final day, individual experiences shape culture and how people show up. Yet some aspects of the employee journey are more critical than others—those “moments that matter” are the pivotal points for engagement and performance. Identifying these specific make-or-break times, and then intentionally designing them, can have a positive impact on people’s lives while elevating the performance of the organization.
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- Culture Transformation
- Organizational Assessment and Design
- Employee Engagement
- Team Ways of Working
- Leadership Development
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Insights on Connection, Inclusion, & Engagement
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- Employee Engagement
- Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
- Organizational Assessment & Design
- Performance Management Redesign
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Insights on Well-being & Mental Health
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- Employee Wellness
- Mental Health in the Workplace
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Insights on Employee Experience
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- Employee Experience Design
- Onboarding
- Organizational Assessment and Design
- Employee Value Proposition
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MAXIMIZING YOUR ORGANIZATION’S culture
Ready to improve the overall health of your organization’s culture? Whether you’re seeking to map a vision for your future state, or simply want to chat about what’s working and what’s not, we’d love to connect.
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ABOUT TiER1 performance
We activate strategies through people. TiER1’s mission is to improve organizations through the performance of people to build a better world. Our purpose is to help people do their best work—that’s the lens we wear every day. As an employee-owned firm, we apply that to our client organizations, their people, and ourselves.
At TiER1 we’ve seen the impact of our healthy culture—we have been on the Inc. 5000 fastest growing companies for 15 years in a row, recognized as an Inc. Best Places to Work company as well as a Best for the World: Workers by the B Lab. Want to learn more? Let’s talk.
