Healthy Competition is the type of competition that involves beneficial and positive interactions between individuals or a group who aim to achieve higher in a game or an environment. The idea of healthy competition is that everyone involved in the process gives their best and hopes that others also do their best instead of wishing that the opposition parties will fail. Healthy Competition is promoted widely because it has more benefits than merely winning in the process.
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Healthy Competition involves the use of constructive criticism if the need arises and also constructive feedback so that the individuals involved in the game or play are able to improve their skills and performances on a continuous basis. Healthy competition’s best example is the game of chess where each player aims to learn more, improve more, and doesn’t bother about who wins and not. Healthy competition should be promoted right from the classroom environment when the children actually start learning and growing together and it should be even inspired in workplaces so that teams perform better with a common goal of development and growth individually and at the organization level.
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In workplaces, healthy competition situations should be conducted by coming up with team-based activities that inculcate excitement and enjoyment of the journey among the employees of working together to achieve common goals. Organizations that promote values like team culture, learning to work with others, and researching independently and through groups, help employees to prepare for their future skills. Organizations that instill such good values within the employees to support each other even in a competitive atmosphere are the ones that can thrive in all sorts of business situations in the long run.
Companies should promote healthy competition by rewarding their employees on a constant basis with monetary and non-monetary benefits. Such a rewards system helps the employees to maintain good relations with their peers and thus foster good work culture. Recognition of employees on a public platform by their peers or team leaders will also make them feel good and confident. It will help to build trust and loyalty among the employees for each other and for the organization.
Brainstorming sessions held regularly within the departments will help employees know each other’s viewpoints and also help them to have an open discussion. Make sure to present some sort of incentives for the best innovative idea so that employees feel heard and valued for their roles in the organization. Removing any sort of barriers and discrimination in the workplace goes a long way in developing healthy competition.
Diversity and inclusion should be promoted well so that the employees no matter how different they are, feel pride and happy to be a part of the project or organization. So, if a deaf employee can use Indian sign language and translate the project for his community in his language to make it accessible, then such uniqueness of your employee should be celebrated and even acknowledged. If a woman employee who is pregnant is able to come up with a balanced lifestyle and work profile for working women who also have caregiving responsibilities, then such ideas should be included in your organizational culture.
