Create a Positive Workplace Culture with Gratitude and Teamwork

This video shows the dif­fer­ence in work­place effi­cien­cy and atmos­phere between an office with and with­out grat­i­tude and team­work in the work­place. Show­ing grat­i­tude and team­work help in cre­at­ing a pos­i­tive work­place culture.  Video Tran­scrip­tion: Ewa: My name is Ewa Lorick. I’m your Direc­tor of Human Resources here at the Budd Group. So what do you think about grat­i­tude and giv­ing thanks? What does it mean to you? Well, to me it means appre­ci­a­tion and recog­ni­tion. So let’s all take a look at this next video and pay close atten­tion to the inter­ac­tions that peo­ple are hav­ing with one anoth­er. Speak­er 2: Hey Rhon­da, I just fin­ished the kitchen. Rhon­da: Well let’s inspect the kitchen to see how that is. Speak­er 2: Okay. Rhon­da: Hey, you haven’t cleaned… You haven’t pulled the trash. I need you to get on that right away. Speak­er 2: All right. Speak­er 2: Hey, good morn­ing. Speak­er 2: Oh shucks. Hey Liz, I just remem­bered I have to get to my son’s base­ball game in like 15 min­utes. Would you mind pulling the trash from the kitchen? Liz: I don’t have to do that. That’s your job. I got to do mine. Speak­er 2: I mean please, I real­ly got to get out of here. You can’t help me out? Liz: Yeah, you can. You’ll be able to get it done. Speak­er 2: Hey, can I get some­one’s help? Ewa: All right. So too often we look at what’s wrong in a work set­ting rather than what’s right. Team­work might be weak or nonex­is­tent. Each per­son is there to make for them­selves and maybe not for the greater good of the team or maybe even for the loca­tion. So we all have bad days. Some start at home, some just with one inter­ac­tion with anoth­er indi­vid­ual who start­ed their day bad. Emo­tions are con­ta­gious in this way. Ewa: So like in the video you just watched a per­son­’s emo­tions and phys­i­cal health is direct­ly relat­ed to a per­son­’s safe­ty on the job. Could the man­ag­er have done or said some­thing dif­fer­ent­ly to pre­vent this man, this employ­ee from hurt­ing them­selves? Did the man­ag­er even read this indi­vid­u­al’s emo­tions when they were speak­ing? Their head was slumped down, their shoul­ders were down. Team­work has been demon­strate to increase effi­cien­cy, improve com­mu­ni­ca­tion, fos­ter friend­ship and loy­al­ty. So what could have been done dif­fer­ent­ly in this video for a more sup­port­ive team? Now take a look at the next video and let’s see how grat­i­tude plays a role. Speak­er 2: Hey Rhon­da, I just fin­ished up with the kitchen. Rhon­da: Okay. Well let me inspect that. Speak­er 2: All right. Rhon­da: Microwave looks great. Speak­er 2: Oh thanks. Rhon­da: Counter top is real­ly in great shape. Sinks look good. Keep­ing up with your dust­ing. Floors, tables, it all looks nice. Thank you. Thank you so much. Speak­er 2: Yeah. Rhon­da: Hey, when you get a chance before you leave tonight, will you, do you mind get­ting that trash? Speak­er 2: Oh yeah. Yeah, sor­ry, total­ly for­got about that. Rhon­da: Thank you. Real­ly. I appre­ci­ate every­thing. Speak­er 2: Yeah. Rhon­da: Thank you. Speak­er 2: Thank you. See ya. Speak­er 2: Hey, good morn­ing. Speak­er 5: Hey, good morn­ing. Thanks for all your hard work. Speak­er 2: Oh yeah, no prob­lem. Speak­er 5: Oh sor­ry. Have a good day. Speak­er 2: You too. Speak­er 2: Oh shucks. Hey Liz, I just for­got I have to get to my son’s base­ball game in like 10 min­utes. Would you mind pulling the trash in the kitchen for me? Liz: Oh sure, I’d be glad to. No prob­lem at all. Speak­er 2: Okay, awe­some. Liz: Yeah, as soon as I’m done with this I’ll grab it. Speak­er 2: Yeah. All right. Thanks so much. Liz: Thanks. Have a good one. Speak­er 2: Yeah, I’ll see you tomor­row. Liz: All right. Hey tell your son I said good luck. Speak­er 2: All right, thanks. Liz: Have a good one. Speak­er 2: Bye. Speak­er 2: Let’s go Jim­my. Great inning coach. Speak­er 6: All right. Hey. Speak­er 2: Hey. What’s up? Speak­er 6: I did­n’t think you’re we’re going to be able to make it. Speak­er 2: Yeah, actu­al­ly I did­n’t think so either, but I had a real­ly good day at work and this oth­er employ­ee helped take care of the end of my shift so I can make it out here. And yeah, it’s a great game. Speak­er 6: That’s awe­some. Speak­er 2: Yeah. Ewa: Wow. What a dif­fer­ence. So in this last video, we saw recog­ni­tion with pos­i­tiv­i­ty. We saw appre­ci­a­tion, con­nec­tion with one anoth­er, care, respect, and friend­ship in the end. Grat­i­tude is strong­ly and con­sis­tent­ly asso­ci­at­ed with greater hap­pi­ness. Grat­i­tude helps peo­ple feel more pos­i­tive emo­tions. They rel­ish in good expe­ri­ences, helps to improve health, deal with adver­si­ty, and build strong rela­tion­ships. How much more pos­i­tive can that be? So thank you. It’s a pow­er­ful phrase, a pow­er­ful sen­tence with­in our vocab­u­lary. Strive to use it more often in your day-to-day con­ver­sa­tions. And you will just see how far it takes you and your team. So thank you for all that you do at the Budd Group. You are appre­ci­at­ed. Thank you. The Budd Group strives to be a God-hon­or­ing com­pa­ny of excel­lence safe­ly deliv­er­ing ser­vices in jan­i­to­r­i­al, main­te­nance, and land­scap­ing; offer­ing devel­op­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties for their employ­ees; and con­tribut­ing to their com­mu­ni­ty. Inter­est­ed in work­ing for The Budd Group? We are hir­ing and offer benefits!

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