‘Winning? Who desires that? Gross!’ In this week’s post we’ll chat about why you can’t have passion when creating a losing culture. Before I dive in, let us recap some of the key ingredients needed to make failure a success.
The Perfect Ingredients for A Losing Culture
*Recipe serves 1 to 1000+ Employees
2 cups bad office culture
4 cups zero passion
1 tbsp laser focus solely on the paycheck
3 cups apathy
1 non-coaching leader in the middle
1 demotivated employee (minimum, add more for better results!)
5 cups of lack of love (for extra flavor)
1 tsp unintentional actions (optional)
Directions
- Chuck all the ingredients in a blender, especially from the organization or team brand.
- Leave open to rot and fester.
- Get vex when the recipe isn’t as delicious as a winning culture.
- Blame everyone else while serving losing culture.
Winning Cultures need Passionate Workers
Ok, all jokes aside let me get straight to the point, passion is required to create a winning culture, period. That’s your only secret sauce. Your level of passion is one of the primary reasons your career or organization will succeed. Passion drives motivation and that in turn fuels how activities are approached or strategized.
During a few executive coaching sessions, I’ve come across leaders who are distressed because the prospects of finding and employing passionate staff is incredibly hard. This is not an unwarranted concern, if you pause to reflect, I’m sure you can think of only a handful of employees or leaders in the middle that use this fervor to make a positive difference to your organization. It’s only natural that leaders wish all their team members would equally have a heightened sense of passion and dedication for their jobs. As a leader, you should strive to hire and foster passionate employees. Although it is easier said than done, creating a winning culture is the difference between a great company and a failed one.
Make Passion a Requirement
Passion, like energy, is infectious. You are more likely to help each member of your team find passion in what they do if you are passionate about what you do. Lead with passion.
Acknowledging that your job as a leader entails inspiring passion, what can you do about those whose light has dimmed? The same thing, try to help them to find their right role within the company and if that fails? Then the tough decision must be made to separate so they can pursue other avenues that could better excite them. Should you want to get more involved, you can also help them find success in a different role or at a different location. There truly is no loss here, you now have an opportunity to fill that space with a new employee that has the right energy.
Passion in the Face of Challenges
Passion is not an emotion that is taught; rather it is the result of a person doing the right job or having the right career.
In today’s topsy turvy world, more is innately required from leaders and employees to show up and do a great job. There’s a lot of external factors that can be demotivating, just like you, I struggle some days, but I am able to push past the temporary pains because I love what I do. No job is perfect, as a leader the pressure to be an inspiration and driving force is weighty and falls solely on you. Passion begets passion and this is the only fuel that can create a winning culture.
I’m pretty darn passionate about my career as a keynote speaker, bestselling author and owner of The Retreat Ranch. Check out my projects to see how they can inspire you and ignite your passion! Until next week.
