Businesses thrive when their workforces thrive. This means having colleagues who are engaged and motivated and who feel connected to their teams and the business as a whole. This is not always easy to achieve — people’s lives are complicated, outside pressures can often spill into the workplace, and the pressures of management and business uncertainty can impact morale. We know that good work is good for mental health and well-being. What are some of the barriers and challenges to creating a strong workplace community, and how can leaders and people teams have a positive impact?
There is a challenge in forging strong teams and relationships between consistency and prescription and allowing individuals space and autonomy. One of the keys to creating workplace communities is allowing room for different views to be shared while setting clear expectations and boundaries that encourage team cohesion. This can be done through clear policies and processes that are consistently applied across an organization, but also by allowing safe avenues where voices can be heard and by giving agency to those voices.
For example, do managers have an open mindset, keen to hear about different ways of managing a process? Are your managers confident to allow another’s view to be heard or be considered? Does the business encourage innovation and development by allowing new ideas to be raised?
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