Humans First, Workers Second.
For business owners and culture leaders committed to showing up as humans first in the workplace and making workplaces better for humans.
So many workplaces prioritize the tasks over the humans who do them.
It makes sense. Task completion is what pays the bills. But a work-first environment comes at a cost. High employee turnover. Low employee satisfaction. Management fatigue. Poor customer service. Underutilized pricey benefits.
What if it doesn’t have to be this way?
Let's redefine workplace success.
With a “Humans First, Workers Second” approach, we are turning our culture’s work-centric focus on its head. Workaholicism isn’t something to be celebrated; taking time off for your mental health is. We’re reminding ourselves that we are human beings, not machines.
The Humans First,
Workers Second Podcast
Join our hosts, Julia and Kat, on the podcast as they explore different ways to humanize the workplace. Follow along as they interview experts and wrestle with questions on how to create a humans-first culture in their own work.
As the founder of Stratos Creative Marketing, Julia knew she wanted to create an organization that was different than any of the ones she had worked for prior. In her first year, with only one employee, she created a culture guide that outlined many of the values reflected in HFWS. A few years later, Kat joined the organization and began developing more humans-first initiatives within Stratos Creative Marketing.
This podcast is for people like them – founders and leaders who want to create better workplaces for themselves and their colleagues. As Julia often says,
“I have no idea what I’m doing. I’m just doing the next right thing.”
All it takes is a little creativity.
Don’t worry… we’ve already been told a humans-first environment is unrealistic.
We beg to differ. In the words of T-Swift: “Haters gonna hate, hate, hate.” Calling a humans-first environment unrealistic infers there’s an endpoint. We don’t believe there is. It’s all about forward movement – both in interpersonal relationships and in company policies.
Culture work like this is not only for the Fortune 500 companies who need to comply with their diversity initiatives. It’s for every business. Sometimes it just takes creativity to figure out how best your workplace can implement humans-first philosophies.
Ending any relationship is complicated.
When it involves the exchange of money and goods, it gets extra messy. But what happens when you realize a client (or an employee) isn’t a good fit for you and your work? And once you realize you’re headed toward a breakup, how do you handle it with a Humans-First approach?
Download this guide for the three things we've learned and implemented in our organization.
Have an idea for an episode?
As you listen to the HFWS podcast, you may come up with a question or thought. Or, maybe you have a creative way you’ve seen a workplace create a humans-first environment. We want to hear about it; if we can include it in a future episode, we will!
