An inspiring workplace culture encourages employees to do exceptional work.

Many leaders have a tough time accepting that it’s up to their employees to bring the most critical assets to an organization—creativity, compassion, innovation, ownership, and outside-the-box thinking.

CULTURE DRIVES EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE

As a manager, you can force those behaviors by creating key performance indicators (KPIs).  Or you can create an inviting culture that will encourage employees to bring those behaviors to work. In the end, the organization is the sum of its employees’ choices, and culture is the key to driving exceptional employee performance.

However, in the pursuit of engaging employees and creating an inviting culture, organizations often fall into several traps that result in creating a manufactured culture that produces more resentment than inspiration. Here are three common misconceptions companies often have about creating an inspiring culture.

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