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HOW TO CREATE A POSITIVE WORK CULTURE

Creating a positive workplace culture is extremely important to cultivating a productive and profitable company. The quality of work we do depends on the quality of our workplace culture.

When the environment we work in is positive, we become more engaged and committed employees. By definition, workplace culture is a pattern of behaviors that are supported by a management system over time. Harnessing the power of positive reinforcement is the quickest way to a better workplace culture, says Bill Sims, Jr., President of The Bill Sims Company, Inc.

ONE ON ONE WITH WTP ADVISORS’ KATHI METTLER

Seeking a way to improve the company’s internal training methods, tax advisory consulting firm WTP Advisors has hired Kathi Mettler, a longtime Director in the International Tax Services Group at PwC and assistant professor at Fairfield University in Connecticut, to serve as their Director of Learning and Education. Eventually, Mettler says, WTP hopes to develop a program to offer training to clients as well.

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DO YOU WORK FOR ONE OF THE PROFESSION’S BEST FIRMS?

Consulting magazine’s Annual Best Firms to Work For survey opens on March 17! You can access the profession’s largest and most in-depth employee satisfaction survey by clicking on the survey logo on the upper-left-hand side of the Consultingmag.com home page. Or contact Consulting’s Janie Setzer at jsetzer@ consultingmag.com for more information. The survey will remain open through June 23.

Complete survey results will be published in the September issue of Consulting.

What can we say about our first Rising Stars of the Profession: 35 Under 35? Well, as it turns out, plenty. And we do, but we also let them say plenty, as well. Read their quotes: What do they have to say? More times than not, they deflect praise and instead opt to credit those around them—their co-workers, their team, their mentors, their clients. Since they won’t say it, we will: The award winners, and plenty of their colleagues in Generation Y, are eager and well educated. They know what they want, and are not about to settle. They don’t like the status quo; in fact, they have no problem challenging it. They are not afraid to take chances. They expect their jobs to be fulfilling; if they’re not, they’ll move on. They are philanthropic; they believe the work they do each day should lead to more than a paycheck. In some cases, much more. In simplest terms, they want to change the world—or at least leave it in much better shape than how they found it. They are, in a word, redefining the consulting profession.