Sixty-five percent of employees would rather have a new boss than a pay increase because of their dissatisfaction with the workplace.
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The workplace is going through an identity crisis. On the one hand, it wants to hang on to the traditional mindset that has helped build powerful businesses. Yet, there is plenty of evidence showing that this mindset is out of touch with today’s employees. Solving the identity crisis means looking towards the bright side for solutions.
Shawn Murphy, culture change and leadership consultant and author of the book The Optimistic Workplace: Creating an Environment that Energizes Everyone, says, “Let’s face it—not all work environments within an organization are great. There are usually pockets of excellence mixed in with mediocre and toxic environments. A pocket of excellence thrives within an organization despite its surrounding environment. The key is to make them grow.”
To create these pockets of excellence requires leaders to shield their employees from the negative or mediocre influences that undermine performance. Employees need to be coached on how to positively deal with the negativity when it does breach the pocket.