The overall environment of your workplace is crucial when trying to build the success of your company. It not only affects how employees interact with each other and the quality of their work, but how industry professionals and leaders view the company overall. High-performance environments are one of the most desired in the business world, as it encourages motivation and support amongst team members to achieve goals and grow the company as a whole. To produce a high-performance work environment, however, the company must boast strong leadership skills and a clear vision.
How Does Leadership Play a Factor?
Leadership is one of the most important factors when building a business, specifically when trying to achieve a high-performance workplace environment. To shape the culture and environment of a workplace, there are four vital goals that leaders must work towards every day.
Leaders must communicate a clear vision.
Communication is essential, (we even wrote an entire blog about it!). When trying to inspire peers to work towards the vision of your company, communication amongst team members is crucial. When leaders can effectively communicate their vision, it allows peers to determine exactly what the goal is, and how they should go about achieving that goal. For example, when team members in leadership positions are passionate about reaching a sales goal, their fellow sales team will be able to take note of this passion and adopt it as their own, allowing them to push the envelope and aim to achieve these goals as well. Without passion or clarity, employees lose sight of what they are working towards. When this motivation is lost, employees can begin to feel uninspired and burned out.
It’s important to note that communication isn’t only expressed verbally, but is shared through perception and seeing leaders practice what they preach.
Leaders must develop goals and a plan of action.
To be successful in creating a high-performance workplace environment, everyone must be aware of your goals and the processes and procedures that are in place to help you achieve those goals. If the goals of the company are not established early on, employees will not only wonder how they can contribute to the overall success of the company but will lose motivation in completing incredible work. For employees to perform at their very best, they need to know the overall vision of the business, and how it can be achieved year over year.
Leaders must challenge and motivate team members.
It is incredibly easy for team members to become distracted or thrown off track from their daily, weekly and monthly tasks. This can result in them quickly forgetting their vision, and losing their motivation. Whether it’s due to work-related setbacks or personal issues, it’s important to always challenge and encourage team members to work past these problems. Without motivation, many leaders find that their peers lose focus on what they should be working towards, ultimately contributing to a work environment that not only has low-performance rates, but that causes the vision to become lost.
How We Establish a High-Performance Work Environment at TRAFFIX
At TRAFFIX, we believe that vision is created through company culture, which is established through strong communication and leadership from our management team. Chuck Snow, the founder of TRAFFIX, believes that creating a high-performance work environment comes down to these five principles.
1.) Always be looking for changes in trends and marketplaces. That is where the opportunity lies and where your vision will stem from.
2.) Always be prepared. When preparation and opportunity collide, you have a greater chance of achieving incredible success.
3.) Never look in the rearview mirror. Keep looking through the windshield at all times. You need to know where you are going, to be able to drive a company forward.
4.) Treat people fairly but do not let kindness be mistaken for weakness.
5.) Have standards. Live by them. You will have to make difficult decisions, despite not every single person agreeing with them. Aligning yourself with a winning team is not easy and maintaining one can be even more challenging, but when you have a team that believes in the company and its vision, that’s when magic is made. When you put the right people in the right seats on the right bus, success can be yours.
Is your company struggling to create a high-performance work environment? It may be because you are having difficulty establishing a clear vision that your business can stand behind. When you align your company vision with strong leaders who will help to keep your team on track, that is when the pieces can come together, and you can achieve success!
