Increasing the PICAS Factors - Productivity, Innovation, Creativity, Agility, and Safety
D&I issue
Would your company benefit from a more productive work environment? Are you coping with a bad work environment? Perhaps you need answers to how to improve the environment at work?
A productive work environment is essential to the sustained business success of any company, association, or non-profit. Your employees must both want to and be able to contribute to their maximum potential. They must be able to focus on their job-related objectives.
What might keep your employees from focusing on their job?
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Lack of a needed accommodation
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Ineffective or missing communications
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Fear for their personal safety
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Disrespect
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Conflict
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The need to keep quiet about their personal and family life
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Boredom
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The total impact can be enormous. Estimates of an employee’s lost time from these concerns range widely, from a low of fifteen minutes daily up to over two hours daily. Calculate the salary and benefit expense.
Then add the lost revenue, market share, and customer satisfaction from delayed product or service introductions, marketing deliverables, or customer support.
D&I solution
Typically, several concerns exist in the workplace and have varying significance for different individuals. Existing data combined with employee input can identify the primary issues and potential solutions.
Depending upon circumstances, the employee input may be via any combination of interviews, surveys, focus groups, or work environment action teams. This provides the basis for focused actions and communications. Ongoing measurement helps ensure that progress is made and sustained.
MDB Group’s principals have addressed situations like this. Our solutions vary, based on client need, from simple interviews and recommendations to custom coaching and facilitation. We can implement an intervention specific to your situation, emphasizing timely results.
Sample D&I results
See representative results achieved by MDB Group's principals at Productive and Supportive Work Environments.
Related links
Concerns about a productive and supportive work environment relate to specific issues and to the general topic of a diversity strategy. Click the links below for more insight:
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Workplace conflict reduces productivity since it interferes with peoples’ ability to focus on their job-related objectives. |
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The factors creating an unsupportive and unproductive environment increase the chance of complaints and lawsuits. |
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Morale and turnover problems can be caused by the same underlying issues that create work environment problems. |
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Assessments help determine the appropriate plan and measure progress. |
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High productivity, innovation, and creativity are only possible in productive and supportive work environments. |
Next steps
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MDB Group Business-Aligned® D&I Solutions
D&I Application Note (PDF): Grow Your Organization through Business-Aligned® D&I Planning
Spotlight on Building Inclusion
Almost all organizations say they want a more-inclusive workplace. Some can define what this looks like. Very few organizations achieve anything close to “full inclusion". Why? It takes a change in mindset about diversity and cultural difference.
Growing an organization and its business through full inclusion typically demands some mix of the PICAS factors (Productivity, Innovation, Creativity, Agility, and Safety). Full inclusion requires cultural and behavioral change from the CEO to the newest employee. To learn more visit these pages:
