EPISODE #844
Rita Ernst
Show Up Positive:
How to Create Great Workplace Cultures
844 Rita Ernst: Show Up Positive
Why Listening and Co-Creating with Your Team is Vital
Quiet quitting. The great resignation. We’ve all read the headlines, and it’s become increasingly obvious that building a profitable, fast-growing businesses requires investment in a great team culture, that productivity increases when everyone is happy in their work and aligned on mission, vision, and values.
So how to build that positive culture?
Look at just about any company’s website and there will be a mission statement and often something uplifting about team culture and shared values. Yet how many companies are truly live their values day to day?
It’s easier said than done.
Rita Ernst, founder of the executive coaching and organizational effectiveness consultancy Ignite Your Extraordinary, says team culture is likely the biggest determinant of your productivity and profitability.
Author of Show Up Positive with a master’s degree in organizational psychology, Rita left the corporate world to help leaders change it from within. Rita says the best team cultures are co-created with team members rather than imposed from on high, and she shares practical steps to create a positive and productive workplace.
- Why the best workplace cultures are “co-created” with team members
- The difference between compliance and true ownership of a culture
- How to operationalize your company values
- How to manage fast growth vs. sustainability (hint: it’s impossible to run a long-distance sprint)
- As a founder how to avoid being the bottleneck and learning to ask for and receive help
- Why you can never let your failures or setbacks define your possibilities
- How just one negative or toxic employee can damage an entire culture
- How to build a great team culture even if your business is 100% remote
- And much more
More about Rita Ernst at igniteextraordinary.com
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More about Rita at Ignite Extraordinary
Rita Ernst is the founder Ignite Your Extraordinary, an organizational consulting practice emphasizing the convergence of happiness and productivity to create positive, committed, high-performing organizations. Author of Show Up Positive, Rita helps transform corporate cultures and startup emerging growth companies lay the groundwork for success. She holds an advanced degree in Organizational Psychology from Clemson University.
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