Work is an important part of our life and workplace – an important environment. Here is my kind of workplace that I love as a power-performer and I hope such a workplace will be loved by you too!
- It has minimum obligatory management controls;
- Personal accountability is practiced and rewarded;
- Work comes in complete entities; rather than just a small chunk of the whole;
- Ability to choose “what” and “when” of the tasks which I undertake;
- The organizational feedback system which transparently evaluates results that I produce;
- Opportunities are given to the new projects according to my abilities and performance rather than my seniority or personal relationship with the boss!
- Rewards based on performance;
- Positive confrontation is welcomed and appreciated;
- My Key Result Areas are clearly communicated to me;
- I am praised for good performance and reprimanded for not so good with specific inputs about where I need the improvement;
- Performance is a #1 organization priority;
- There is no room for bad-politics and leg-pulling;
- Various possibilities for personal and professional development;
- I am given an opportunity to discuss and comment on changes that affect me and my work;
- When things go wrong, I am asked, “What we can do now?” rather than “Why the hell this is wrong, why didn’t you understand this?”;
- Flat reporting hierarchy. If the lowest level of employee in the hierarchy wants to connect with the CEO, he should be just an email (or other such means!) away;
- Human Resource department treats Human Resources as humans, not resources;
- I am allowed to take at least 2 weeks of vacation in a year to rejuvenate myself and after coming back, attack on my tasks with enhanced energy and zeal;
- Customer focused culture is designed and nurtured. I am taken so much of care as an employee, the first customer, that I can’t stop myself taking great care of the clients;
- Systems based approach rather than personal dependencies;
- Quality is just not a process but inherited from the values on which my organization has been built;
- A system where new ideas are sourced from everyone in the organization who can “think” — the system will reward the good ideas and archive the not-so-good or irrelevant ideas;
- The Sales team sells the services based on realities and real values that my organization provide to the clients and not exaggerated information and inflated facts;
- The organization’s focus is on long term sustainable profits rather than short-term-financial-gains at any cost;
- The Finance and Accounting Systems are accurate and transparent;
- Training is an integral part of the organization’s routine;
- The specific and tough interview process in place. A process that is aligned with my organization’s long term strategic objectives;
- The organization exhibits integrity in all of their actions. The organization leverages my strengths rather than emotions;
- Where results are more important than time spent in the office;
- Where I love to run an extra mile without being asked!
