Four elements make up any team's culture

Four elements make up any team's culture: Safety. Before people can perform at their best they first need to feel safe and protected. How does the current environment make your people feel? First, are the working conditions physically safe? Second, do team members feel emotionally safe to share ideas and feelings without fear of any repercussions? Unity. Inclusivity and people feeling like they are part of something bigger than themselves help feed productivity and innovation. Does each person on your team feel like he or she plays an integral part? Does everyone work together as a team, or do they create silos or cliques? At the center of unity is mutual respect among team members and a feeling of belonging. Positivity. Beliefs drive people's actions, and actions drive results. If your team's beliefs are opti-mistic, the chances of good things happening in the future are drastically higher than the alternative.Positivity is driven from the top down, and it's contagious. Energy. Energy keeps your team going and impacts the intensity and speed at which people perform. High energy yields high performance. You can always tell the energy of a team by what they're doing midday. Have they settled into complacency, or are they revving their engines to power through the rest of the day?

— from Fuel (Energy)

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