Factors for building winning culture in small, emerging organization

What differentiates the outstanding organization and mediocre organization is how the organization responds to customer's or market's expectation.

The response effectiveness depends on the internal organizational culture.

When the organizational culture is a positive and winning spirit, the response would be quick, reliable, and with cost-effective solutions or product. Whereas if the organization culture is more of victimized culture, then the response would be late, non-reliable and less cost-effective solutions or product. 

How the people are feeling themselves and working towards the customer is all about the indication of winning culture.

Building a winning culture is the time-consuming process, and it is a continuous effort, and predominantly, it is the prime responsibility of the business head than the followers.

Building a winning culture does not have a single factor, and it is a combination of multiple factors, as mentioned below. 

1.Respect
2.Environment 
3.Education
4.Forum for reviews and feedback
5.Communication process
6.Risk-taking and experimentation
7.Process and Standards
8.Recognition and appreciation

How do you look at your people?

One of the concerns, most of the small, emerging organization  CEO or business head is " high level of attritions."

When we go in-depth of an attrition analysis, we may realize that people are leaving the organization in a short period of joining, say within a year. 

There could be many reasons for high attrition rate like compensation not matching with individual's expectation /potential, growth opportunities in the external world; people are not liking the work culture, safety, lack of learning opportunity. Those are the reasons for the employee or from an individual/employee point of view.

From the management point of view, I can attribute the reason for high attrition is the top leadership's mindset towards PEOPLE.

As a business head or leadership team, how do you look at your people?

Are you looking at them as a commodity or an asset? 

That perspective makes much difference in the way you conduct your business and treat the people.

If you look at the  People as a commodity:

• Your belief will be "there are many more talents in the market."
• If " x " is not there, I will take " Y." 
• You treat people cost as expenses and You do not show interest in developing
• You are reluctant to create a learning environment for people as you think  as expenses

If you look at the people as an asset:

• Your belief will be whoever is working for you is an asset to the organization
• You will look at each one's strength and look for leveraging and start developing further.
• People get respect for their uniqueness.
• You will build the organizational environment for learning where people will get recognized for taking the risk and delivering results. 

The point is "High-level attrition within short duration" is fundamentally the outcome of how people are treated or respected inside the organization for their uniqueness, effort, learning, risk-taking. If many individuals feel there is a scarcity of respect and the internal environment is conducive for basic survival and growth, then they find an alternative.

Business head or leadership responsibility is to ensure the conducive environment, and the intention of creating a climate comes from the belief and how you look at the people.

Hence, change your perspective on how you are looking at people, either a commodity or an asset!