Healthy Leadership

At Elevate, one of our core strategies is Culture Wins.

We strive to create a culture that is open, honest, fun and transformative. When people experience our brand, they most often comment on the health of our team dynamics and interactions with each other.

But the question that we receive most often is what makes a healthy team culture?

This question is often left untouched by the head of a company and many times other team members carefully tread around the issue. We all want to work in an environment that leverages our strengths and helps us work cohesively with each other, don’t we? The problem is, this idea is a little-understood phenomenon.

Over the past few years, we have examined this idea and here is what we know.

1) Be authentic. In team interactions pose questions, view podcasts, lead group exercises and explore heart level conversations. This will make your team more cohesive and authentic. Your team longs for a genuine connection and it is the leader’s job to model this first.

2) Culture Wins. We said it once, and we’ll say it again. Gathering your team members in the same place to communicate vision and motivate them to join the momentum is massively important. Getting everyone in the same room at the same time will help open up issues that happen in the hallways.

3) Ground rules set the bar. Decide on the rules that will guide the trajectory of your team culture. Create boundaries and enforce them by being consistent and faithful to organizational health.

4) People thrive in their strengths. At Elevate we use several different assessment tools to understand and leverage each team member’s gifts. Personality assessments (when well administered and discussed) can lead to lively interactions and interpersonal understanding. This awareness will engage your team and lead to conversations that cause change.

5) Continually assess your culture. We have developed an assessment tool to create awareness around the potentially toxic elements in your organization. This step is just the beginning of the process, but it will allow you to uncover the challenges and craft solutions.

Health is attainable, but you have to be intentional and consistent!

Contact us and allow our team to walk you through an Elevate Leadership Experience that will cause real change in your organization.