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Creating and cultivating a happy, positive work environment is something you can’t afford not to do. If you are a Business owner it's essential to the success of your venture!
It’s positivity, that aura you can feel, sense and see! These are the ‘happy’ vibes and rays given off by contented people, employees and customers alike.
You may have found the key and are one of the lucky ones who have experienced such euphoria! Your workplace environment exudes happiness. Customers also enjoy the benefits of a ‘happy place’ and keep coming back for more.
And it’s not that hard to achieve this Shangri-La.
If you are a Business owner you can start by sowing the seeds. In this article, we provide the tips to create a positive, happy workplace. Nurture and you will see cooperation, trust and accountability grow and flourish. It’s about striving for a shared purpose, values and trust, that is developed between you, staff and your customers. By following our Tips you can harvest the benefits. Make your workplace the one everyone wants to be at.
- Wear a smile: How you present and interact with others is how they will react to you. Smiling is contagious. If the Manager has a positive demeanour it can influence emotions and create a sense of happiness. Employees are more likely to feel relaxed, communicate more and worry less. Happiness fosters confidence and motivation. Not happy! Frown and your staff frown with you.
- Foster open and honest communication: This is the conduit for constructive exchanges and are the building blocks of healthy relationships. Encourage feedback, listen and act on it as needed. Staff will appreciate the opportunity to speak and will feel valued. Open and honest communication is essential to transparent management. Importantly, invite input from your customers, online surveys or face-to-face, hear and heed their comments. Without customers you are out of Business.
Reminder the ATO is back to Business-as-usual debt collection.
ATO reminds Business to pay before they disclose their debts.
(Announcement 6 October 2023).
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is warning businesses to engage with their tax and super obligations to avoid having their debts disclosed to credit reporting agencies.
As the ATO shifts back to business-as-usual debt collection, as of July 2023 it has issued Notices of intent to disclose business tax debts to more than 22,000 businesses with a tax debt of at least $100,000 that is overdue by more than 90 days.
ATO Assistant Commissioner Jillian Kitto said paying or engaging with the ATO is the only way to stop a business’s tax debt becoming visible in credit rating checks. ‘We want to work with businesses to help them get on top of their debts. Anyone with a debt is encouraged to reach out to us as soon as possible,’ Ms Kitto said.
Need help or advice.
Be proactive contact Blackburn Accounting for your Business accounting matters and Cashflow Management guidance.
Are you feeling foggy headed, not from Christmas cheer overindulgence but from debt acquired during your Christmas shopping frenzy.
Santa has left, the decorations are down, and the Christmas tree is carefully stored away but the debt isn’t. Debt, it’s hanging about giving you a horrific headache.
You are beginning to feel the strain and struggle of financial stress and understanding the bleak impact it is having on your life. It's daunting!
What to do! Who to turn to?
Keep reading
We have compiled our 8 Best Tips to help cure your financial woes.
The headlines said it all! Did you see them?
Stories of workplace ‘toxic’ culture. Organisations with a noxious environment that had undermined workplace relations causing disruption and pain for many. These workplaces are characterised by bullying, harassment or exclusion that results in absenteeism, low productivity and more recently resenteeism. But there are solutions to remedy such situations.
Culture has been described as ‘the way of life for an entire society, including codes of manners, dress, language, religion and rituals and art’. Elements include values and beliefs and norms and symbols’. At times these are in sync and harmony but at other times there may be challenges and conflict to the status quo. This can be due to a breakdown in Management employee relationships.
When we consider an Organization you will see similarities.
Company culture is the underlying 'way we do things' attitude that becomes ingrained in behaviours. Importantly Management, Leaders need to create a positive work-life culture so that everyone enjoys the benefits of productive, long-lasting results.
Now ask yourself what is my Business culture, importantly is it healthy reflecting the Company vision and mission. Great, if you said yes but what if you answered no!
The answer lies in changing culture. This need for a shift in culture can arise for a number of reasons. For example, if your Business has low productivity, high staff turnover and many complaints from customers and employees, consider the need to change your workplace culture. It's about bringing in change for the better.
To successfully transform a work culture is a complex and challenging undertaking but the end result can be worth the effort. It takes commitment, careful planning and development of strategies. Strategies that need to be implemented and adopted by all to achieve the desired outcomes.
Here is our 10 Step Guide to Changing Workplace Culture:
- It starts at the top with Executive, leading by example. Set the standards.
Have you given up on the notion of New Year's Resolutions, they don’t work or even thinking about it, it's all too hard!
Or are you one of the many who believe in the power of making a fresh start?
The savvy are already making plans for their New Year New Beginnings with aspirations expressing hopes and promises to make changes for a better you and a better year.
If you want tot get onboard there are simple steps you can take and strategies you can adopt to achieve the outcomes you want!
Read on for our 7 Top Tips
So what's it all about!
Described by Wiki as ‘A New Year's resolution is a tradition, most common in the Western World but also found in the Eastern World, in which a person resolves to continue good practices, change an undesired trait or behaviour, accomplish a personal goal, or otherwise improve their behaviour at the beginning of a calendar year.’
With that in mind are you feeling a little sheepish about last year's declarations, those profound proposed changes that didn’t come to fruition? The ever popular lose weight, exercise more and be a better me! But I won't be dismissive as some readers will have accomplished such goals and more.
New Year, New Beginnings, let's take a different approach to this subject.
Consider, Making a fresh start! Making this your best year ever!
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