High Performance Culture: Critical Factor #3 United in Executing the Company Mission

Once employees are engaged and share company values, then they can unite in executing the company’s mission. For these employees there is a clear understanding of their individual role and contribution, a team mentality is encouraged and embraced, and individual and team efforts are equally recognized.

UNDERSTANDING OF INDIVIDUAL ROLE AND CONTRIBUTION
Once a company’s values are pulled down off the wall plaque and instilled in every employee’s every day actions, then each employee can begin to understand how his or her role contributes to the company achieving its mission. Employees who see their daily effort as more than “just a job” – more even than “a career” – begin to understand that their individual efforts directly and profoundly impact the company’s ability to achieve its strategic goals.

TEAM MENTALITY ENCOURAGED AND EMBRACED
Individual contributions without a team mentality will ultimately result in failure. By its very nature, a company is group of people united in a common goal. Once individuals unite as a team, functioning as a highly tuned machine to achieve departmental, divisional AND company goals, then a high performance culture has truly been achieved.

INDIVIDUAL AND TEAM EFFORTS EQUALLY RECOGNIZED
Human nature does not lend itself to putting the team ahead of personal goals, however. A successful high performance culture is closely intertwined with a culture of appreciation in which it is second nature for employees to recognize the achievements of their colleagues, managers to recognize individuals and teams for their efforts, and both peers and managers to engage in daily “thank you moments.”

How does your company stack up? Do they acknowledge only the individual or do they put team above all? Or is it the rare company that recognizes the value of both?