“To the givers go the spoils”:By encouraging employees to both seek and provide help, rewarding givers, and screening out takers, companies can reap significant and lasting benefits, Wheels and Deals, usedacardeals, Fredericton

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The hidden dimension of corporate culture

Adam Grant

By encouraging employees to both seek and provide help, rewarding givers, and screening out takers, companies can reap significant and lasting benefits.

The problem

Many organizations don’t support information sharing. Worse,
in “taker cultures” the norm is for employees to get as much

as possible from others while contributing less in return.

Why it matters

The amount of help a group’s members give one another
is among the strongest predictors of group effectiveness. Building
a “giver culture” pays.

What to do about it

Natural human tendencies often make it hard to seek help. Overcome them with straightforward exercises that encourage teams

to use their knowledge, resources, and connections to better effect.

Develop practices to recognize and reward helping. Peer-bonus
and -recognition programs promote giver cultures without undercut-

ting the healthy competition that drives productivity.

Learn how to spot—and screen out—takers to minimize their corrosive effect on the organization; ensure that senior executives model good behavior.

MQ Article Givers Take All (Apr 2013)

Hello,

I hope you are well.

From time-to-time I like to  share worthwhile information that may benefit people both personally and/or professionally.

The latest article I read is no exception so I hope you don’t mind me sharing it with you today.  In fact, it’s one of the best I have read in a long while.  The article is called “Givers take all: The hidden dimension of corporate culture”.

“To the givers go the spoils”.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Warmest regards,

Robert K. Varga

President, WALKAWAY Canada Incorporated

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Fuel for Thought……Jim Gilbert

Ask the Expert: Circle of life for a business, couminty involvement...

Ask the Used Car Expert Column, as read in the Fredericton Daily Gleaner Newspaper

Q: Jim,you are involved in helping and promoting our community, is that important for car dealers and businesses in general?

A: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Wheels and Deals feels community support and involvement is an integral part of what we are all about, and we try to do what we can within reason. We all have our own views on this, I call it the circle of life " support those who support you "