Make the Office Fun Again by Hiring the Right Employees for the Right Roles

The right employees in the right positions on your team gives you so much more than you get.

What can you achieve with your own dream team?

A fun office environment is one attribute of the professional world that I  believe is completely underrated. Today’s work culture is rapidly changing and this is one concept that seems to be more valued than before. However, there’s still a long way to go. Here’s why. 

Productivity can reach unforeseen heights when your company has two things: employees that are passionate about their jobs and a work culture that makes it implicitly clear that they are cared for. Managers everywhere are hoping to get as much as they can out of their team members with regard to production. 

Our old, “tried and true” methods were to push employees as hard as possible and make them feel that being human was a weakness. Provide vacation, but make it feel impossible to use. Tout many benefits, but keep them so busy that they can’t properly enjoy them. Shun emotion. Push productivity. Ignore rest.

What that gave us was a burnt-out workforce that got less and less productive as time went on. The point of diminishing return had officially been hit. 

When the right employees are in the right roles, you get:

A more productive, joyful team. If your team has all of the right team members in place, the office is naturally a more joyful place to be. You have more natural antidotes to shame, confusion, comparison, self-doubt, insecurity, and imposter syndrome than if your employees were uncomfortable with their work.

A clear vision of your company’s mission. Not only do employees want to help a company succeed, but they also want to know what they’re working towards.

What is the mission?

Who does their work help?

How does it help?

When employees are given the autonomy to work in roles that suit them, they have more mental, emotional, and creative capacity to support the mission of the company. 

Freedom to take your life back. When the right people are in the right roles, you don’t have to spend as much time micromanaging. You can encourage your team to exercise autonomy and they can earn your trust by producing, even when you aren’t watching. 

Increased trust. When the right people are in the right places, you can trust your team to produce to your standards. Why? Because your standards are the team’s standards, and they’re operating within their skills, which means they are able to produce their very best work. Everybody wins!

Team Buy-In. If your team has all of the right team members in place and they feel that they have the freedom to produce in their areas of strength, your team will automatically have buy-in to your company’s mission and want to work to help the company succeed. If they love the work they do and love the team they’re with, there’s so much more to love about the company they’re working for, too.

Having the right employees in the right positions in your company doesn’t just make your life easier. It doesn’t just make you and your team happier. It ultimately leads to a more productive, bought-in team. When you do the important work of reducing the white noise around your team by building cohesiveness and joy, you leave room for each person to operate within their zone of genius and produce at a higher capacity, with better quality work. Ultimately, your company makes more money.

You may think you can’t afford to make very necessary personnel changes. I would ask, can you afford not to?