Motivational slogans on the wall, Friday drinks and team building outings in the wilderness can all be really nice things to have and do, when your culture is built on the right team foundation.
In fact, if you don’t have the right people in your team, and you invest in those types of activities, it can worsen results.
Why? Because people see that you reward low productivity. And so you will get, more low productivity!
Where does Culture start from?
Culture starts with who you let into your business, and what motivates that person to be there and come to work everyday.
When Gareth (director of Performia) first built his business before he discovered Performia, he thought he could turn anyone into a performer. What he discovered was painful:
- A small team of top performers created a high-output, exciting culture.
- As soon as the wrong people slipped in, the culture collapsed, politics, laziness, and even destructive behavior took over.
That’s because culture is the collective behavior of your people. Hire the right people, and culture builds itself. Hire the wrong ones, and it erodes overnight.
At Performia, we see culture the way a coach sees a sporting team:
- The right players show up ready to train, push themselves, and win.
- They enjoy the game, they thrive on challenges, and they celebrate victories together.
- Pride, improvement, and performance become the norm.
The opposite? A workplace where people “just turn up to get paid.” That’s not culture. That’s a slippery slope to the bottom and won’t be a fun place to be for productive people.
You can build culture deliberately by:
- Hiring for performance first (not just CVs and reputation).
- Setting the right level of the game – whether you want a local team or a world-class championship side.
- Driving constant improvement so that work stays challenging and rewarding.
If you want a workplace where your team is motivated, productive, and actually enjoys showing up, then it starts with how you hire.
That’s exactly what the Performia Journey is built for.
What we want to create for you is a team of fun, safe, and productive people.
By safe, we don’t mean health and safety. We mean a team where 100% of their attention is on delivering the product or service to clients, doing a great job, growing the business, celebrating wins, and working through challenges together.
They put their shoulder to the wheel to make the business the best it can be.
Watch insights to the Performia Journey here
Schedule your free Hiring Demo and and see how we can help you go to the next step, build a true games culture, and finally enjoy running your business again.
PS: Don’t wait for culture to “happen.” It already is good or bad. The question is: are you actively shaping it, or letting the wrong people shape it for you?