Something I read yesterday and I liked from the book: Today Matters..
"One of my mentors, Fred Smith, once told me there are two kind of people in any organization: Polluters and Purifiers, Polluters are like smokestacks, belching out dirty smoke all the time. They hate clear skies, and no matter how good it gets, they can fine a way to make it gloomy. When the people around them in the organization "breathe" their toxins, they feel sicker and sicker. Purifiers, on the other hand, make everything around them better. It does not matter what kind of rotten atmosphere they encounter. They make in the toxic words of polluters in the organization just as everyone else does, but they filter the word before passing them on. What goes in is a gloomy and negative, but when it comes back out, it is fresh and clear."
You cannot imagine the effect of this on motivation, performance and productivity, also it has a huge effect on recruitment and turnover cost.
So, HR should always try to detect during the interview, is the candidate Polluters and Purifiers, and should push to hiring Purifiers due the the positive effect they have on the team
Alaa Zaghmout
SPHR, PMP
"One of my mentors, Fred Smith, once told me there are two kind of people in any organization: Polluters and Purifiers, Polluters are like smokestacks, belching out dirty smoke all the time. They hate clear skies, and no matter how good it gets, they can fine a way to make it gloomy. When the people around them in the organization "breathe" their toxins, they feel sicker and sicker. Purifiers, on the other hand, make everything around them better. It does not matter what kind of rotten atmosphere they encounter. They make in the toxic words of polluters in the organization just as everyone else does, but they filter the word before passing them on. What goes in is a gloomy and negative, but when it comes back out, it is fresh and clear."
You cannot imagine the effect of this on motivation, performance and productivity, also it has a huge effect on recruitment and turnover cost.
So, HR should always try to detect during the interview, is the candidate Polluters and Purifiers, and should push to hiring Purifiers due the the positive effect they have on the team
Alaa Zaghmout
SPHR, PMP
2 comments:
Unfortunately some Polluters was working with us and thank for gad some of them leave us after the last actions ! but according to your experience do you think I am Polluters or Purifiers
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