The Drama-Free Workplace

7 Make Your Journey Easier Choose the Less Treacherous Path

Organizations struggle with creating and maintaining a drama-free, healthy culture, but the truth is that their failure is sometimes due to making the process harder than it needs to be. One way to make it easier is to look at the success stories in other corporate arenas.

As you embark on your quest to become a healthy and inclusive workplace, you’re likely to encounter forks in the road. Sometimes you’ll have to choose between a path that’s rocky and uncharted, and one that’s already been explored and is therefore less treacherous. Although taking the uncharted course might make you a trailblazer, often the already-paved path will help you achieve a drama-free workplace more quickly and easily.

One good place to start is taking a look at corporate safety programs. They provide us with a great roadmap that we can easily tweak to use in the workplace drama arena.

What We Can Learn from Companies That Embrace a Safety Culture

Employers first addressed workplace safety issues because they were forced to. Laws and regulations came about because of the alarming number of on-the-job injuries and deaths. In addition to the new laws, the government established a new enforcement agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). OSHA imposed what seemed like drastic mandates aimed at reducing workplace accidents, injuries, and deaths, and employers were initially resistant to being forced to change their ways. ...