Enhancing Corporate DNA

Creating a Positive & Healthy Environment

At the very core of any organization lies the corporate culture or 'DNA.' Corporate DNA is essentially the way things are done – the fundamental values and ethics by which an organization operates and the perception and commitment held by the staff. DNA is the thread woven throughout all company actions and decisions.

Every member of an organization recognizes the values in action by observing business interactions both internally and externally. More than a mission statement or corporate values that are the vision or the 'how we want things to be', what actually happens each day in the workplace is what impacts corporate DNA. How employees view the organization directly affects the morale, trust, pride, and loyalty that each individual demonstrates. What people see is clearly what matters.

The mission of Howatt HR's DNA Enhancement program is to support a positive, mutually beneficial work culture that promotes personal development, performance excellence, and employee health. If the DNA is well structured and resilient, the entire organization will possess the potential to address change and rapid growth and deal with conflict and stress effectively.

Management Consultation Services

• Developing Employer of Choice strategies. See Howatt HR Triangulation Theory.
• Designing strategies for addressing, preventing, and intervening with workplace addictive disorders. See Howatt HR Addictions Books.
• Designing strategies for accommodating persons with mental health issues in the workplace.
• Facilitating workplace conflict resolution. 

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Mission statement

Do your mission and value statements reflect what really happens in daily interactions between people in the workplace?

A successful, in-sync workforce will always have a strong sense of core values. This awareness does not happen spontaneously. Time and energy must be spent on reflection, focus, and discussion; only this level of investigation will produce the shared sense of commitment to core values that each member can adhere to.

What really matters to the workforce is what it perceives at work daily. If there are gaps between the 'real culture' and the mission/value statement we can help you address them by auditing and assessing the current climate and suggesting programs to build the knowledge and skills to move the mission statement into daily behavior.

Change management

Change is a growing reality in today's organizations and is also one of the major challenges in terms of leading human capital. How an organization helps employees accept, adapt, and adjust to change will directly affect its success. Failed change initiatives are reported to cost companies millions of dollars per year.

We use 10 key strategies for ensuring successful acceptance and implementation of your change initiatives. These strategies help reduce the risk and exposure by implementing the best practices of human capital change management. Anticipating risks and preparing your entire staff for change are at the root of our customized model and your success.

Conflict resolution

Conflict is an ever present factor in the workplace, but we may not consider how powerfully it influences creativity and productivity. Depending on how the workforce handles conflict, it can either spark creativity leading to innovative solutions or it can reduce morale, increase attrition, and kill productivity.

Our conflict resolution workshops and interventions are aimed at guiding the workforce toward resolving and reducing conflict. We focus on how to productively evaluate root causes, leverage opportunities presented by conflict, and build healthy communication channels. Our goal is to move the workforce toward innovative, collaborative solutions.

Workplace health

Businesses spend billions annually on stress-related problems and mental illness through lost productivity and health insurance and disability claims. Stress is an expensive problem for corporations, which becomes more expensive if ignored. Organizations need commitment and a long-term strategy to reduce stress.

Howatt HR will provide an expert on stress to map out an action plan to help individuals develop skills, as well as to assist the corporation to develop a healthy workplace. For a healthy workplace, each person needs to take ownership for their own health and develop a set of healthy coping strategies for dealing with daily stress. We have solutions to help employees acquire skills and implement strategies to avoid stress-related illnesses and 'burnout'.