As human resource professional, my experience teaches me that combined efforts of employers and employees are the foundation of best workplace. The key role of organizations is to support employees in a way that they become inspired to work together as in a productive zone: highly engaged and committed to their work and their purpose, while mastering their abilities as a professional.

Every employer wants to make their company the best place to work and every employee wants to work for their dream company. However, many people do not fully understand that creating a positive work environment and making a company a great place to work is a combined effort of both employers and employees. Unless there is a combined effort towards this mutual objective, we shall not succeed.

Employer and employee both are equally responsible for achieving the organization goals. As many positive efforts you do, the better effect it will have, even if we don’t realize it. We should strive to create positive, measurable and powerful outcomes. More efforts will make people take notice of your deeds and inspire them too.

Employee can add value to their organization by focusing on several key areas listed below:

• Committed to their work: Dedication, hard work, show up on time, meet deadlines, and follow through on commitments. This will demonstrate your level of enthusiasm towards the task assigned to your employer that you are a responsible and reliable employee.
• Be a problem solver: Being able to find ways to solve problems demonstrates initiative and enable the company to achieve more or meet deadlines faster will give the company a competitive edge. Instead of complaining about the problem with a product or service, spend that time trying to come up with a solution.
• Build healthy connections: Develop strong relationships with your colleagues, superiors, and clients. This can help improve communication, collaboration, and teamwork within the organization.
• Set clear expectation: Be familiar with your goals, targets and about a plan. It will provide a clear direction and plan-of-action for your work. This will create fewer problems as you will be very clear about your goals, you will be focused and will decipher what you exactly need to do.
• Self growth: Developing new skills, behaviors, actions, attitudes, habits and seeks out opportunities to learn new skills. This will make you a more valuable and versatile employee and can lead to promotions and career advancement.
• Active engagement: Active role in you work may help you learn more from your colleagues, superiors. This helps you learn more about their experiences and concerns so that you’re able to meet needs efficiently and effectively. Being willing to contribute to the success of your organization, you can add value and become an asset to your company.

Similarly, an employer can add value to their organization in following ways:

• Prioritize a work life balance: Ensuring that employees have a healthy and balanced work-life balance at workplace that reduce stress, prevent burnout and promote a considerate company culture.
• Offer good compensation packages: Employees are more likely to be attracted to and stay with an organization that offers competitive or industry-leading compensation packages. It is a great way to ensure employees feel satisfied and valued.
• Invest in their professional development: Providing employees with opportunities for continuous learning, skill-building, and competency development. Employers can offer training and development programs, as well as support employees in pursuing professional certifications and degrees.
• Create positive employee experiences: Cherish employee dedication to bridge by recognizing and rewarding them. Employers can create a positive culture by promoting transparency, openness, recognizing and rewarding employees, and fostering a sense of community within the organization.

Employer by focusing on these areas, can improve their ability to attract and retain top talent, leading to a more successful and sustainable organization.

To summarize both employer and employee should realize that creating a best place to work is not a one-sided effort. Both employers and employees efforts play an important role in creating an amazing, positive and strong work culture. By working together, employers and employees can create a work environment that is rewarding, fulfilling, motivating and beneficial for everyone.