Recruiting is the most important thing for a positive company culture. It’s a well-known fact that one bad apple can spoil a bunch. Recruiting is like the backbone of your company. It’s not just about looking for the best talent. It’s about finding those talented individuals who will become productive colleagues in your company, those people who will make the company evolve in time and grow their skills and develop. Those individuals who will be loyal to the company and work hard for their success, those people who have values as important as yours.
But how do you go about building a positive company culture?
Creating an engaging workplace is a big challenge for many businesses. In fact, according to CIPD’s Good Work Index 2023, employees are now less enthused about work, less likely to perceive their job as useful, and more likely to see their work as “doing it for the money”.
But here’s the thing: If you want happy employees who are motivated to do their best work, you need to make them feel valued and appreciated. You need to give them a reason to come to work every morning with a smile on their face.
So how do you go about building a positive company culture? Here are six ways that can help
1. Show Your Appreciation
There’s no better way to show your appreciation than with a simple thank-you. It doesn’t have to be grandiose or expensive; just take some time out of your day to let an employee know that you noticed their hard work and effort.
2. Create A Supportive Environment
When everyone feels like they’re in it together, they’re more likely to work harder and be more productive at what they do. You can help foster this environment by emphasising the importance of teamwork.
3. Keep Things Lighthearted
Humour is a great way to break up the monotony of the day, so try to inject it into your company culture whenever possible. This doesn’t mean that you should be cracking jokes all day long; just make sure everyone knows that it’s okay to laugh once in a while.
4. Provide Opportunities For Learning
By encouraging your employees to learn new skills, you’re not only helping them grow personally but also ensuring that you have the skills you need for the future.
5. Set Clear Goals & Deadlines
If you want your team to be more productive, then it’s important that each person knows exactly what they should be doing at any given time.
6. Encourage Peer-to-Peer Feedback
If you want your team to feel comfortable with one another, then it’s important that they have the opportunity to give each other feedback on a regular basis. This can be done informally by having weekly meetings where employees can discuss what’s going well and what could use improvement.
One important way to foster a positive company culture is to recruit employees who fit the company’s values and mission.
In order to build a strong team, you must hire people who are passionate about what your company does. They should also have similar interests and goals as those of other members of the team. This will make it easier for them to work together effectively as well as create an environment where everyone feels valued, appreciated and respected.
It can be difficult for managers who aren’t in charge of hiring new talent but here are some tips on how they can help:
Make sure your recruiting process doesn’t have any red flags that could scare off candidates.
Be sure that the interview process is as easy and straightforward as possible for candidates. You want to make it as easy for them as you can by not being too rigid with your schedule or requiring a lot of paperwork ahead of time.
It’s also important that employees conducting interviews are well-trained in how they ask questions, what they expect from candidates during an interview, and how they will assess whether a candidate is a good fit for the job or company culture.
Make sure you’re asking all the right questions during interviews so that you understand exactly what skills the person has and whether he/she would be able to perform those tasks successfully once hired (and if so–why?). If there are certain things about your position or company culture that aren’t clear from your job description, make sure those details are explained clearly during this step as well so there aren’t any surprises after hiring someone new!
To build a positive company culture, start by making sure you attract the right people to work with you.
Attracting the right people to work with you is key to creating a positive company culture. When it comes to attracting employees and candidates, there are many things that can help you attract the right people.
- Hire for culture fit. You don’t want to hire someone who has all of the skills but does not share your values or mission; this will create friction in your workplace and make them less likely to stay long-term.
- Hire for values first, then skill set second (if at all). If you’re looking for someone who fits into your team because they share similar beliefs as everyone else on staff–such as honesty, integrity and hard work–then look no further than this list of values every successful business owner should live by!
About Charterhouse
We hope that this article has given you some ideas about how to create a positive company culture. The most important thing is to hire people who share your values and will be able to contribute to the organisation. That way, you can build a team that’s aligned with what you want from them–and they’ll be happy doing it!
Our team can advise you on everything from attracting the right candidates, to asking the right questions at interview. So if you are hiring into your team and want to work with an agency who really understands culture fit, get in touch with our team today. We’ve been helping companies recruit for over 20 years, and we’d love the opportunity to do the same for you.
