Workplace Cooperation, Do You Have It?
Getting along in the workplace is a job requirement. It may not appear on the job description, but it is still a requirement. Do you have workplace cooperation or is harmful conflict, agreeing to disagree, or passive aggressive domination more popular?
Is your business or organization feeling stuck? What are the employees saying?
Considering workplace success and organizational growth, it should be clear that cooperation is a better path.
What Is Different?
When there is a different idea, a different suggestion, or something that offers a different perspective, what is the cultural response? Often different is associated with opposition, not opportunity.
Certainly, revenue and profit matter. Certainly, a unified team is important, and certainly building a cultural experience that motivates and excites often produces great work.
Have you considered how internal cultural experiences shape results? Have you grown just big enough and are now stuck?
Big Enough
Grow big enough and a culture of dominate and destroy has an opportunity to infest the communication and cooperation of your internal workforce. Push hard enough and the insistence of win at all costs will test your ethical boundaries.
Preach about perfection, you may end up with a culture that absolutely resists and rejects change.
Preach about removing emotion, you may end up with a culture that is not appropriately motivated, misunderstands their purpose, and lacks loyalty.
Absolutely, quality matters, and yes sometimes we do need to set aside emotion in the interest of a good clear business decision. A word of caution though, be careful about the culture you are creating.
Workplace Cooperation
We live in a highly networked world. In a networked world connection is the most basic and fundamental principle for success.
If you don’t have workplace cooperation you may be lacking the ingredients required to get you to the next level.
Feeling stuck? Do you question why you have internal fighting and disconnection? Have you wondered why dominance and strikeouts occur between fellow employees?
It may not only be about the cultural aspects that you allow. It may exactly what you’ve built.
-DEG
Dennis E. Gilbert is a business consultant, speaker (CSPTM), and corporate trainer. He is a five-time author and the founder of Appreciative Strategies, LLC. His business focuses on positive human performance improvement solutions through Appreciative Strategies®. Reach him through his website at Dennis-Gilbert.com or by calling +1 646.546.5553.
