Success Culture

How do you foster success in your business? How do you build the success concept into your employee's actions and work?

Fox News' Small Business Center answered some of these questions in an article recently.

“Culture positively or negatively affects your business,” says Marcus Erb, a consultant and senior research associate with the Great Place to Work Institute, a consulting firm that creates Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For and 50 Best Small & Medium Companies to Work For in America lists. “Companies need to establish their cultural DNA early, and if you’re a smaller business, you can take control of your culture,” he says, noting that Google strategically thought about its culture early on.

What are ways this cultural DNA can be created and sustained?

In essence, there are three criteria, or ingredients, needed to create a success culture:

- Trust. Employees trust their employers and their managers.
- Pride. Employees have pride in the work that they do.
- Joy. Employees enjoy the people with whom they work.

And my favorite tip for managers...

Finally, perhaps one of the most important strategies an employer can use to create a success culture is to “start to act in the way you want your organization to act,” says Erb. “The culture starts at the top and [employers] need to take personal action to change culture.”