Supportive Work Environment Quotes

Leadership is about making people feel safe. When someone feels heard, they feel safe.

I've got corporate executives, my bosses... this is true... who will text message me... and say, 'Hey a, heard you had chemotherapy today, want me to stop by and pick you up something to eat and bring it to you?' Whose boss does that? My bosses do that.

There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone. I believe in giving a person incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. . . . I have yet to find a person, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.

I work with wonderful people who support me. And, my beliefs are that the business needs to serve the family rather than the family serve the business.

I look for people who work to solve problems and help colleagues, I sack politicians.

People have to be given the freedom to show the heart they possess. I think it’s a leader’s responsibility to provide that type of freedom. And I believe it can be done through relationships and family. Because if a team is a real family, it’s members want to show you their hearts.

My job affords me the luxury of having help. I don't feel exhausted, I feel lucky.

Never miss a moment to encourage someone you work with.

The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the careful work and gentle voices of my female workers.

You go in thinking you have to do this all by yourself, and what I learned was no, when you hire great people, they do so much for you.

We all have to embrace the idea not to be worried about there being other women in the room. Gay men work with such solidarity.

He works in us and with us, not against us or without us; so that his assistance is an encouragement to the facilitating of the work, and no occasion of neglect as to the work itself.

All of us are extremely competitive. We're kind of competitive with how we work on Radiohead stuff. Having said that, there's also a lot of support.

Success comes from delegating, risk-taking and having a good TEAM!

I think that the female workforce is so valuable. And if we're going to champion women in the workforce, which our economy seems to want to do, we have to deal with the realities, which is that they have children, and they need a way to take care of their children in a supportive work environment.

The culture around here is much less cutthroat than it is in, say, Silicon Valley, or even within the non-profit culture in D.C.

In my experience, the best directors I've worked with hired people for a purpose. They hire them with trust. There's not many notes. There's confidence and support.

Today, despite all of the gains we have made, neither men nor women have real choice. Until women have supportive employers and colleagues as well as partners who share family responsibilities, they don't have real choice. And until men are fully respected for contributing inside the home, they don't have real choice either.

Positive work environments outperform negative work environments.