We solve the problems inherent in accidental work cultures.
Vidl Work’s proprietary methodology brings a critical missing piece into your company’s culture equation: intentionality. We do this by focusing on three areas where we’ve found culture transformation to be the most powerful and enduring: energy, connection, and courage.
Elevate Energy
Human energy powers each of our lives. When we’re low on energy, or we waste energy on people and things that don’t matter, we feel out of balance, unfocused, and struggle to relate well with others. We’re unable to direct our energy effectively to produce, collaborate, and problem solve.
Today’s modern world doesn’t make it easy for us to manage our energy. Workplace and home demands often exceed our capacity. But it’s a fact that by learning to manage their individual energies, employees at all levels of a company can cultivate balance and wellbeing in ways that positively impact their contributions at work – and that affect their lives far beyond the workplace.
We move individuals and teams:
Prioritize Connection
Humans are hard-wired for connection. Most significant achievements in business result not from the efforts of a single individual, but from connection and collaboration between multiple individuals. We are most resilient in community and it’s through connection that we are the most creative, innovative, and productive.
Despite our innate need for connection, our inner reactivity often leads to behaviors that disconnect us from other people; we judge, prove, interrupt, take things personally, fall prey to bias, make incorrect assumptions, and create conflict.
Since the default state of most working teams is friction, confusion, and underperformance, most teams need help building the trust, connection, and communication skills necessary to work with a sense of purpose and cohesion. They need to tap back into the power of connection.
Choose Courage
Changing culture inevitably requires that we interact differently with each other and that we face vulnerable moments with a blend of confidence and humility. This involves risk. Therefore, it requires courage.
Courage is essential to a thriving organization. Yet most people have never been taught what courage looks like in the workplace or how to choose it, even in the face of overcoming inner discomfort.
Quite simply, a “culture” is how a group of human beings relate to each other. Every company and team has one, and it almost always developed over time, by accident. When a culture is accidental and not intentional – actively supporting optimal engagement or performance – it fosters ineffective group norms, unhealthy interpersonal relationships, and misaligned individual behaviors. Cultures exist on a continuum, ranging from what we classify as “thriving” to “toxic”. Most fall somewhere in between.
Left unchecked, an accidental culture can become dysfunctional and erodes employee engagement and retention, negatively impacts mental and physical health on and off the job, and ultimately, damages a company’s overall performance. Perhaps your organization is experiencing one or all of these issues right now.
Vidl Work can help your organization focus on the three components of a thriving workplace. Eliminating the entrenched problems that result from the absence of high-quality energy, meaningful connection, and courageous action will be positively transformational for your culture and, by extension, your company’s productivity.