Title: How to Infuse Your Company Culture with Humility
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How to Infuse Your Company Culture with Humility
Humble workplace cultures embrace the honesty, experimentation, and learning that lead to success.
1. Accurate awareness
2. Tolerating competent mistakes
3. Transparency and honesty
4. Openness
5. Employee development
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6. Employee recognition
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Content: Find out how humility affects relationships. Accenture, a global management consulting company, frequently holds events for employees to discuss creative solutions to current technological problems. The solutions may not always work, but making strategically intelligent mistakes is an integral part of the innovation process. Companies like Accenture that give their employees the freedom to fail allow them to be more creative. Your company can cultivate this norm by encouraging healthy risk taking. For example, you can host brainstorming sessions where outlandish thoughts are welcome, criticism is banned, and ideas remain anonymous—which allows for them to be evaluated on their merit alone and not on the reputation of their originator. Through this seemingly simple exercise, employees can begin to experience a feeling of freedom that carries over into their day-to-day work. 3. Transparency and honesty
Many employees feel that by keeping operations and ideas a secret, they can avoid another person or department “stealing” their idea. In contrast, humble organizational cultures tend to be more transparent and honest.