What does High Performing Culture mean?

Most managers are unable to articulate what it means to have a high performing culture, let alone how to cultivate it.

What does culture in this context mean? 

"Culture is the set of processes in an organization that affects the total motivation of its people. In a high-performing culture, those processes maximize total motivation."

- Harvard Business Review

The truth is the total motivation, or ToMo, of workers is affected by a multiple factors- this could be from how a job is designed to how performance is reviewed. However, there are three main factors that are most implicated for Total Motivation.

First, how a role is designed can indicate whether a worker feels propelled forward by their role, or if poorly designed, experiences lack of motivation.

Second, identity of an organization, which includes its mission and behavioral code is vitally important to ToMo.

Third, the career ladder in an organization. Places where employees are rated against each other increases emotional and economic pressure, which reduces total motivation and performance.

The question you need to ask yourself is, how can you build ToMo in your culture?

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