How to Maintain Positivity in Your Company Culture

You can’t force people to be happy — least of all your employees. What you can do, however, is create a workplace culture that promotes positivity.

This is a worthwhile undertaking, and for a few different reasons. The first is that a positive workplace tends to breed positive people — and when your employees have positive energy, they tend to be more productive, more energetic, and more engaged.

That positivity spreads to customers, too. Have you ever done business with a company where the employees were exceedingly cheerful and kind? It probably made an impact on you. It probably made you glad to be doing business with them.

Instilling positivity in your company culture is a noble quest, then — but how can it be accomplished?

Let me offer some suggestions.

Bringing Positivity to Your Workplace Culture

Make a choice about the kind of business you want to have. Ask yourself this: When an employee leaves your company, how will he or she remember it? As a happy place, or as an oppressive one? Consider what kind of legacy you want to leave with your employees, and make that your guiding concept.

Hire positive people. Bringing positive people onto your team is paramount. Do you…