There’s was once a famous New York City Mayor who would walk through the busy streets and ride the subways asking the question “How am I doing?”
Do you think everyone said, “Good job?” No – he got good solid info he could use to help him govern in that challenging city.
Now that’s brave! New Yorkers are known to be opinionated people.
Do you often walk around your place of business (or make time on a remote call) to ask that very important question?
Given the “climate” in workplaces today (more stress, more discontent, less engagement) maybe you should be asking.
And while reaching out yourself, that’s only one way I recommend getting your info. The other way is to do some research to see how you are doing.
Here are 7 reasons I think you should be doing research on the well-being and happiness of your people on a regular basis.
- You will identify areas for Improvement. Using a feedback tool can highlight specific challenges allowing for targeted improvements.
- You will boost employee engagement. When you do regular surveys, it shows people that their opinion matters and when they see changes as a result of that feedback they know you are listening! (That’s priceless!)
- You’ll enhance communication. Using a feedback tool opens up the communication between management and staff, fostering both transparency and cohesion.
- You can measure an initiative’s impact. It’s a great way to assess the effectiveness of new policies or programs – especially when you do it before and after you implement.
- You’ll be promoting Positive Culture. When you understand your workplace culture through feedback that helps you celebrate strengths as well as identify areas of improvement.
- You’ll drive data-drive decision making. Feedback provides solid data for making informed decisions, leading to better outcomes!
- You will be fostering continuous improvement. When you collect feedback consistently you promote a culture of continuous improvement.
And that of course makes me happy!
And heres’ something that might make YOU happy. Through my new strategic partnership with CoEfficient Research, I have the opportunity to offer you a “Glimpse” of your culture – using 8 carefully designed questions – at zero cost to you.
Yep! That’s right. That means that once you say YES to this amazing offer which has been designed to give you a statistically valid “Glimpse” of what’s happening where you work.
We do all the work, you get all the benefit. Everything is done with email – it’s completely confidential and anonymous and you get some intel and insight that can help you take your culture to the next level. And you know it to be true – a positive culture is going to outperform a mediocre one any day!
Call me at 561-279-0027 to set you your Glimpse, or write to me JoAnna@ReturnOnHappiness.com to get it all set up. Your HR person or administrator can make sure the surveys are distributed (an email) and we do the all the rest.
I know, I know, seems crazy – but isn’t it time you knew?
Excited for you,
JoAnna
