[TEST] Let’s build a healthy workplace

A healthy workplace is neither a dream nor a fancy corporate policy. A healthy workplace guideline is crucial in increasing productivity and maintaining the health of employees.

And the good news is that it is possible to build a healthy working environment. Many companies did it. They did it by being coached for it either personally or with the assistance of a corporate coach. However there is one prerequisite – each and every employee should get on board with the initiative (be aware and stay open to implementing it), otherwise, the process will take years before some results show up.

Below are statements examining the healthiness of a workplace including your own personal attitudes and behaviors towards your colleagues. Read them, reflect on them, and then put in place training and strategies to maintain a healthy work environment.

1. Colleagues avoid using video when meeting online.
2. Colleagues bully a new colleague.
3. Colleagues don’t feel comfortable to hold meetings together with potential clients/members.
4. Colleagues prefer exchanging with emails and avoid speaking directly on the phone.
5. Colleagues mostly carry a burden on their own and tend to avoid any collaboration.
6. It is unusual to ask for help in this working environment.
7. A colleague is used to play a victim.
8. A colleague keeps underlining in public his/her bossy position or power to control instead of simply serving and providing help.
9. A colleague hides achievements of other colleagues when speaking in public.
10. A colleague acts friendly when being seen only.
11. A colleague believes that it is impossible to be friends at work.
12. A colleague doesn’t distinguish between feedback and criticism.
13. A colleague mixes up perfectionism with experimenting (criticizes when somebody is simply experimenting).
14. A colleague advertises that he/she works hard. The worst thing he does it on behalf of the organization in public or on social media.
15. A colleague systematically tends to mark his/her email as high priority.
16. A colleague is used to hit “reply all” in the email with a hotheaded response, often including people form third parties.
17. A colleague keeps requesting a read receipt, when emailing.
18. A colleague learns from other colleague’s posts on social media and avoids acknowledging him/her.
19. A colleague tends to request things to be done immediately.
20. A colleague manages his/her time often by ignoring the schedule of other colleagues.
21. A colleague tends to speak in many details (often for a long time) that are not crucial or are not to the point.
22. A colleague’s emails often contain some content that is not true, helpful, inspiring, necessary or kind.
23. A colleague doesn’t return emails.
24. A colleague keeps pushing his/her own interests or hurting other colleagues despite being informed about the harmful/destroying effect of his/her behavior.
25. A colleague unusually softens his/her voice when expecting something from others.
26. A colleague overpromises to clients/members. And once money is received he/she leaves the person behind.
27. A colleague blackmails other colleagues in public or to third parties.
28. A colleague complains to those who are higher up the career ladder.
29. A colleague overcompetes instead of collaborating.
30. A colleague sacrifices values and work ethics in order to achieve a reward.
31. A colleague shows up tired or in a bad temper in public.
32. A colleague plays numerous faces depending on the status of the counterpart he/she interacts with.
33. A colleague hides critical information from others.
34. A colleague loses his/her temper in public.
35. When suggested a new way of doing things, a colleague keeps repeating “this is how we are used to do things here”.

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