Do you Vampire or Inspire?
A No Contest Culture - Do you Vampire or Inspire?
There is no contest between the company that buys the grudging compliance of its work force and the company that enjoys the enterprising participation of its employees .
- Ricardo Sempler
Culture counts…even for those who want to pretend it doesn’t - you know, the sad, mad and toxically cynical c0-workers who sour and taint what would otherwise be sweeter spirit and feeling of the workplace. If they went away, it wouldn’t be perfect and wouldn’t be problem free…but it would be a lot more fun and a heck of a lot easier to focus on solving problems, adding value, magnifying returns, and making a more significant difference.
To many people are working in toxic or semi toxic workplace environments. The culture norm they endure is “require” instead of “inspire”. The blame for this environment might be dispersed in equal parts to leaders, policy, peers and so forth. But away from the blame game which is un-winnable at best…let’s look at the kind of co-worker you are, or you endure.
Let’s look at the “Peer Factor“.
Work doesn’t have to hurt as much as it does. And it might be you and I that are contributing to the pain of our shared existence. One simple question we might ask ourselves is - “When people walk away from me are they feeling better than when they walked up?” After any interaction with you - do people leave it feeling “more” or do they leave it feeling “less”?
More what? More capable, more hopeful, more energized, more filled belief in themselves, others, the mission, the cause, more committed, more connected. With more skip in their step, more curve in their smile, more love in their buckets.
Less what? Do I really need to answer this? Yes, well less of everything on the more list. We can all probably think of several examples right now of people we have walked away from feeling drained. It’s as if they were “energy vampires” who sucked hope and light and happiness right from our very beings. Many of the more senior vampires have the sinister ability to drain an entire room full of people at one time
Do you vampire? Or do you Inspire?
Today- set a goal that everyone leaves their experience with you…with more.
Make Your Culture Count - We get what we give - Let’s give more to everyone…not because we have too, but because we WANT TO!!
. ~ Kirk Weisler
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