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Supportive Climate

1. Create a context where the best people 6. Identify the meaningful behaviours and
want to come and stay within the competencies that deliver and support
organisation because they trust in the your‘Why’and plans; and start a
leadership, communication and their dialogue on how you can all best live them.
potential to succeed.
7. See careers as tours of duty; where you
2. Build a culture based upon trust and invest in the right skills and projects to
understanding to give the internal stability keep people challenged, current and
and safety that allows the organisation to learning. Promote project opportunities
innovate, flourish and prosper. internally so that people can grow and be
encouraged to move on within the whole
3. Create a healthy company culture through business.
fairness, sense of worth and purpose. Talk
of engagement, commitment and loyalty are 8. Provide opportunities for more
irrelevant unless the core is healthy. partnering, co-creation and involvement,
with less tell and reliance on experts.
4. Build strong teams, squads and tribes -
promote and educate people on the value of 9. Design your office space to enable
productive, healthy team dynamics. Give multiple ways of working; and infuse it
people the tools and time to make them with your organisational values. Create a
work. mix of spaces including some fun ones.
Invest in good technology. Make it an
5. Focus on performance and growth – environment people are proud to bring
business, team and individual. Recognise people into.
team and individual contributions as and
when they happen not just once a year; Build 10. Be inclusive in how you share these
a positive report card culture where you resources with everyone who works with
celebrate successes and learn from mistakes. you – colleagues, contractors and customers.

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