Inspiring people to thrive.

Culture is the collective heartbeat of an organisation. While you can’t touch it, it can touch you. Culture is something you feel and experience. At the heart of the culture heartbeat are the leaders and therefore leadership and culture can’t be separated.

Everyone who has worked in an organisation knows the effective power of leadership and its effects on culture, both good and bad. Supportive, inclusive leadership provides the psychological safety for people to take reasonable risks, make mistakes, challenge the status quo and ask for help. The organisations that excel are those that diligently work to develop conscious leaders who boldly embrace sustainable corporate practices and are attuned to human needs and empowering human potential.

Culture isn’t a nice to do in this modern age, it is a must do. When you look around and watch the actions and behaviours in your company you are observing culture in action. You are seeing the results of what people are thinking. Therefore, it is the role of leaders not only to create a psychologically safe environment for people to be their best, it is also for them to influence their thinking, for it is this thinking that creates those actions and behaviours.

Authentic inclusive practice provides a sustainable foundation for creating and maintaining sustained organisational engagement, connection, belonging, and purpose. Effective inclusion is necessary for an organisational culture that can measure improved access to and attracting talent; belonging at work; enhanced organisational reputation; and elevated innovation and diversity of thought.

Whilst many workplaces with existing wellbeing programs focus on the physical aspects of wellbeing, it is rarely considered as a strategic advantage in business to have integrated wellbeing programs. The wellbeing equation goes far beyond gym memberships and quit smoking programs and offers businesses an opportunity to thrive using a strategy that focuses on a holistic approach to measuring an organisation’s mental, physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing. Focusing on wellbeing as part of the strategic plan, automatically has an impact on the traditional measures of sick leave, engagement, bullying and harassment, and mental health leave. Given that most people spend most of their waking hours at work, this Thrive Star measurement looks at how well rounded your organisation is in terms of individual, team and business wellbeing.

Productivity is determined by a combination of business metrics and intangible human skills. The business metrics such as turnover, profit, employee engagement etc are easy to measure. The human skills such as compassion, kindness etc are more difficult to measure but just as significant to productivity outcomes.

The majority of Executives today believe that sustainability is important in business. That it is actually good business. A sustainable business not only ensures the survival of resources but delivers greater prosperity and designs organisations that last. Sustainability considers all of the stakeholders in your business from the employees, customers through to suppliers in your supply chain.