Google, which is renowned for its attention to culture, has a near 0% turnover rate and gets an estimated 7,000 unsolicited applications for jobs every day. HR leaders encounter a lot of advice about how to manage culture—to increase engagement, decrease turnover, and drive recruitment. But when it comes to creating a culture employees love and don’t want to leave, employee happiness is the metric that really matters. SOURCES 1. http://www.iopenerinstitute.com/what-are-the-financial-benefits.aspx 2. http://www.fastcompany.com/3004595/secrets-americas-happiest-companies 3. http://www.kellyocg.com/Knowledge/Whitepaper_Conten/Happiness_and_Meaning_at_Work_White_Paper/ 4. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081126122317.htm 5. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203388804576612943738516996.html 6. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hrdq.20070/abstract 7. http://www.kent.edu/research/newsdetail.cfm?newsitem=AEC1631B-E717-E289-CAF38E98A14FF8B4 8. http://www.happiness-project.com/ 9. http://quickbase.intuit.com/blog/2013/01/04/4-strategies-for-happier-employees/#sthash.sV0Q8MQn.dpuf 10. http://www.fastcompany.com/1835578/sharp-drop-worker-happiness-and-what-your-company-can-do-about-it 11. How to build a killer culture - The Science of Happiness - Whitepaper

1. HAPPY EMPLOYEES
=
HEALTHY
ORGANIZATION
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2. WHAT IS A CULTURE?
A great culture can make the critical
difference between organizational
success and dismal failure.
It impacts just about every business
metric, From customer service to
productivity to profitability.
 It is the key to retention.
 It is the key to recruitment.
Every Company – whether it
is trying to build one or not
– has a Culture.

3. THE SECRET SAUCE OF COMPANY CULTURE

4. HAPPY EMPLOYEES:
Stay twice as long in their jobs as their least happy colleagues
Believe they are achieving their potential 2x as much
Spend 65% more time feeling energized
Are 58% more likely to go out of the way to help their
colleagues
Identify 98% more strongly with the values of their organization

5. Great culture and happy employees
are often equated with innovation and risk-
taking and gobs of money to spend.
These universal drivers of employee
happiness fall into three categories:
alignment, positivity, and progress.
Everything employees need—and everything
you need to build a great culture that will
attract and keep the best talent—rolls up into
one of these three things.
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PROGRE
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DON'T WORRY. BE HAPPY.

6. 5 Ways to Build
Alignment
Pay closer attention to job-
person fit
Fire people who don’t fit your
culture
Help employees find greater
meaning in your values
Show workers how your
company fits into a bigger
picture
Cultivate more trust and
flexibility into your policies
GET INTO ALIGNMENT

7. ACCENTUATE THE POSITIVE

8. Keep the Wheels of
Progress in Motion
Set clear, measurable and achievable organizational
goals
Show employees how they fit into the bigger picture
Offer training for mastery of new and existing skills
Respect individualism
Reward excellence and effort

9. Employee happiness is not a cakewalk.
A strategic recognition program is a great
start on achieving all three of
these objectives—offering a way for
employees to better understand and
practice company values, offer continuous
positive feedback, appreciate and
be appreciated and a way to be rewarded for
the progress they make toward
their goals.
HOW TO GET ROLLING

10. AN OD & MANAGEMENT ADVISORY
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