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Evaluating Your Workplace: 10 Questions

Do your employees love their jobs? Do they love their workplace? Workplace culture is key in employee satisfaction, and higher employee satisfaction means better results.

Mike Kerr, expert on creating healthier workplaces, recently blogged 10 questions to help evaluate your workplace culture.

1. Are you proud enough of your workplace to recommend it as a place your own children and best friend should come and work?

2. Does your workplace live up to the hype and promises offered in your help wanted ads?

3. On Monday mornings, do you feel like you HAVE to go back to work, or do you look forward to going back to work because you WANT to be there?

4. Rather than having the life energy and your soul slowly sucked out of you over the course of a work day, do you sometimes feel more energized after a day of work?

5. On a scale of 1-10, where 10 represents a rockin’ fabulously inspiring workplace, what score do you think your team members would all give?

6. Are people on your team committed to either a higher sense of purpose in their work, to a sense of community, or merely to a pay check?

7. If your workplace was recreated on a reality TV show, what would the show be called?

8. What legacy is your organization going to leave behind 5 or 10 years from now?

9. What legacy are you going to leave behind when you retire or move on?

10. If your workplace environment could be summed up by a single slogan on a t-shirt, what would the slogan be?

Failure Leads to Winning – Mike Lipkin

“If you have a body, you’re an athlete, says Nike. We’re all competitors in the game of life and 2011 has been an amazing race, but it’s almost over. It’s a sprint to the finish line. It’s also a sprint to the starting line of 2012 – The year of the London Olympics. That’s what I’m training for. I want to be higher, faster, stronger, lighter, fresher, edgier, newer, sharper, gutsier and nicer. I have to be. 2012 will demand a whole new level of execution. I believe it will be a breakout year…

I know I’ll be ready for the surprises, crises, cataclysms and shocks of 2012 on one condition: I have to let go of everything that doesn’t serve me anymore. I have to travel light. That’s the only way I’ll get to my goals…

It`s about being able to fast forward by acting now – knowing that failure leads to winning and winning requires more failure. It`s also about resilience and idealism in equal measure. The one is the bodyguard of the other. Everyone is enthusiastic at the start of the game, but it`s how they play to the end that counts. As Vince Lombardi said, fatigue makes cowards of us all. Trying to hold on to what`s past will ruin one’s future. There is only what works right here, right now. That’s why my new mantra is “Touch The Ground Lightly. Embrace The Temporary. Say Yes To Impermanence And Portability. “

What do you need to let go of? How can you be remarkable? What do you need to reduce, repurpose or reinvent? How are you building your resilience for a phenomenal 2012? What will it take to bring magic and joy to your colleagues and customers? I’m doing my best to answer these questions. That’s why I’m creating this message. And that’s why I’m recreating every assignment and every engagement for every client. If it’s not customized, crisp and fresh, it’s a waste of time. And that’s the ultimate sin where time is the resource we’re all competing for.

I hope the rest of 2011 is the best time of your life – why would you have it any other way? Choose to make it so. Be a model of what’s possible. Others will follow your lead while you follow theirs. It’s never too late if you begin now.”

(excerpts from Mike Lipkin’s latest blog insights)

CKTB AM launches new radio program with Randy Taylor

A brand new radio program, “The Winner Within” with Randy Taylor will debut on Saturday, August 15 from 2:00 – 3:00 pm on 610 CKTB AM. It can also be heard on line at www.610cktb.com. The show is the first of its kind in Canada as a call-in show on personal and professional development.

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