How leadership culture builds great workplaces | Front Leadership

Celebrating and highlighting what we achieve makes people proud. That's why ringing the bell and marking major contract wins is an important ritual. Equally important for creating pride is the keen use of internal social media. This is where projects, praise from customers, praise from colleagues and external presentations are shared. Managers play an important role in making people proud by highlighting employees, visiting projects, showing interest and giving feedback. External visibility is equally important for creating pride, so employees who write blogs, professional articles, give lectures or otherwise become visible in the media or in professional arenas are encouraged and rewarded.

Well-being

Enjoying working with colleagues is the second dimension of creating a good workplace. As a consultancy organization, most of the company's employees work on projects at customers' premises. This gives us extra challenges in creating a "home" in our premises where they can meet and thrive with their colleagues. We have therefore established a number of different meeting places for our employees at our premises, so that employees can meet each other, get to know each other and create networks. Every day of the year, there is some kind of social or professional activity for our employees in the afternoon at our premises. Often there are professional gatherings organized by our more than 80 internal professional groups, people gather for yoga, build robots or play board games. In addition, there are a number of physical activity groups such as football, golf, climbing, etc. What all these activities have in common is that they are designed to help people enjoy working with colleagues, share expertise, network and create a sense of belonging to the company. Managers play an important role in this by facilitating all the activities, showing interest and participating themselves.

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