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Company Culture and the Great Resignation
Through this pandemic, most of us have re-evaluated our relationship to work, whether it’s through remote work, struggling with unemployment or keeping a business afloat, or serving others as an essential worker. Now in the middle of 2021, millions of people are quitting their current job in this post-pandemic workplace. Leaders are trying to figure out how to fight the attrition and also to take advantage of the surge in job seekers. It’s no longer business as usual, and it’s now time to look at ways to shift company culture to fundamentally value the people who work there. Leaders, use the three Rs of Relationships, Recognition, and Revision to build strong company processes and systems for long-term employee fulfillment.
Relationships not Transactional Leadership
In the day to day of work, it’s easy to get caught up in transactional leadership. Corporations have quarterly goals to meet which get translated down to team goals and personal OKRs. We have launch dates, deadlines, and leadership presentations to march towards. The best leaders are able to balance both this transactional leadership of accomplishing goals as well as slow down for the relationships which are key to achieving these outcomes.
As we rise in our careers from doing hands-on work to managing teams and running companies…
