Creating a positive and healthy culture for your team rests on a few major principles.
A large number of empirical studies confirm that positive social connections at work produce highly desirable results. For example, people get sick less often, recover twice as fast from surgery, experience less depression, learn faster and remember longer, tolerate pain and discomfort better, display more mental acuity, and perform better on the job.
70% higher for people with poor social relationships.
Toxic, stress-filled workplaces affect social relationships.
Toxic, stress-filled workplaces affect social relationships and, consequently, life expectancy.
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As a boss, you have a huge impact on how your employees feel.
found that, when employees recalled a boss that had been unkind or un-empathic, they showed increased activation in areas of the brain associated with avoidance and negative emotion while the opposite was true when they recalled an empathic boss.
that leaders who demonstrate compassion toward employees foster individual and collective resilience in challenging times.
leads to an increase of almost 50% in voluntary turnover.
When leadership sacrifices for their team, employees often take advantage of them.
Daan Van Knippenberg of Rotterdam School of Management shows that employees of self-sacrificing leaders are more cooperative because they trust their leaders more. They are also more productive and see their leaders as more effective and charismatic.
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Ever had a manager or mentor who took a lot of trouble to help you when he or she did not have to? Chances are you have remained loyal to that person to this day.
, thus creating a self-reinforcing cycle.
that empowerment, when coupled with good training and teamwork, leads to superior performance outcomes whereas a range of efficient manufacturing and operations practices do not.