Establishing and Maintaining a Healthy Relational Culture – Conclusion

Mon, 2017-09-18 16:55 -- tomjonez

 

This week I conclude a discussion regarding creating and sustaining an organizational culture where people work well together and are supportive of one another. Along the way I have also been careful to point out that these brief blogs are unashamedly short – and correspondingly limited in thorough content.

Even so, there are at least three factors that must be understood and embraced by each member of a functioning enterprise in order to maximize relational harmony, consistency, and effectiveness.

Rather than recount each principle, it is simpler to refer back to the preceding series where, by selecting a link below, it is possible to read each factor in more detail than is possible to spell out in compressed fashion here.

The factors that must be in play in a healthy relational environment include at least the following:

1. Each person is known as and regards each other team members as a fellow-colleagues (click for detail)

2. Each person is known as and regards each other team members as a fellow-workers (click for detail)

3. Each person is known as and regards each other team members as a fellow-mission-partners (click for detail)

Of course, the central factor (not mentioned above) is leadership

Human organizations require leaders who will establish and maintain a productive relational culture.  Each of the three attributes and attitudes toward other team-members noted above must be instilled and continuously reinforced – by leadership.  Even more importantly, these attributes must be modelled by the leader through their regard and treatment of the team members they lead.

On the one hand, this 3-part equation is reduced through this blog into the simplest of terms; yet on the other hand, actual implementation is clearly an art as well as a science.  And so once again we arrive at a fundamental supposition of this series: leadership is dynamic and, at every point, it takes Courage to Lead.

 

Photo Credit: Arnold Exconde