Creating a High-Performance Work Culture

Name: Creating a High-Performance Work Culture
Author: Stella Rostkowski

Learn how you can create an effective workplace culture

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(upbeat music) Let's go over the various techniques you can use to create a high-performance work culture, including cultivating healthy stress, encouraging positivity, and celebrating good performance. There's good stress and then there's bad stress. Bad stress can keep you up at night or lead to anxiety and health issues. But good stress, otherwise known as eustress, is caused by wanting to achieve something. It encourages emotional, psychological, and physical growth. If a runner wants to take 10 seconds off their time, they might do extra hill work to increase their speed. This is good stress because the runner caused the situation to occur. Bad stress is usually the result of someone else creating a situation that you're pulled into. A person's actions and reactions to bad stress are usually brought on by avoiding the issue. An example of good stress in the workplace would be an employee working towards a promotion. Say Carla hears of an open position and takes steps to be considered for it. She reviews the job requirements and education level. Carla knows she needs to complete her degree if she wants to be a viable candidate, so she enrolls at the local college. When other employees noted there were days where she looked tired, Carla admitted that going for this promotion was one of the best things she ever did because she challenged herself and learned what she was capable of. A coach can cultivate positive stress in the workplace by creating friendly competitions between employees being coached and their managers to put all employees on a level playing field. This can help show employees that their managers can still face the same challenges that they do. An example might be to set a challenge to make a sale or bring in a new client by the end of the week. If each member of the sales team works towards this goal alongside their manager, they can share the experience, motivate each other and build camaraderie. Just make sure that the goal you set is realistic. Tight deadlines, unreasonable amounts of work and too much pressure may cause your employees to experience negative stress.

Intermediate Provider : Stella Rostkowski 2 Lessons · 5m in Arabic, German, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese

Course Description

This course discusses the techniques and methods for creating a work culture that fosters high performance. It identifies how you can use healthy stress to encourage growth. It also identifies how to use positivity to acknowledge and uplift managers.

What You'll Learn

Apply techniques and methods for creating a work culture that fosters high performance
Use healthy stress to encourage growth
Understand the benefits of "eustress"
Use positivity to acknowledge and uplift managers
Cultivate healthy stress in the workplace
Encourage positivity within teams

Key Takeaways

A high-performance work culture can be fostered through specific techniques and methods.
Healthy stress, or "eustress," can be used to encourage growth.
Positivity can be used to acknowledge and uplift managers.
The course covers cultivating healthy stress and encouraging positivity.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this course cover?

This course discusses the techniques and methods for creating a work culture that fosters high performance, including using healthy stress to encourage growth and using positivity to acknowledge and uplift managers.

What will I learn in this course?

You will learn the benefits of "eustress" and techniques for fostering a high-performance workplace culture.

What topics are included in the lessons?

The course includes lessons on Cultivating Healthy Stress and Encouraging Positivity.

How can healthy stress be useful in the workplace?

The course identifies how you can use healthy stress, referred to as "eustress," to encourage growth.