It is my vacation day - Facebook’s HR chief discusses 5 key tenets of its winning culture

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Being mission-focused
Playing to employees’ strengths

Facebook uses self-assessments and exit interviews to understand how employees feel about their work while also figuring out ways to help them excel.

“The thing that separates people who stay for a long time or who make the choices to leave is how they score themselves on whether they’re playing to their strengths,” Goler tells Glassdoor.

She adds that when employees feel proud about the work they do at Facebook, they are contributing back to the company’s overall mission.

Part of identifying an employee’s strengths is understanding their downfalls. In one episode of LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman’s podcast, “Masters of Scale, ” Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg says a resilient organization like Facebook is born from embracing employees’ failures.

“You have to be open to feedback. You have to ask for feedback. You have to build in a culture where, when I think you need to do something better, or you think I need to do something better—we tell each other and tell each other directly, and work it out,” Sandberg tells Hoffman.

Having an authentic boss

If workers are genuinely invested in their jobs, they are more likely to perform better, be more engaged and feel more satisfied, one study shows.

Goler says Zuckerberg’s authenticity and humanity influences the workforce at Facebook. “Mark is so human and so authentic with our team,” Goler tells Glassdoor. “He does a Q&A every Friday. He shows up as he is: The person that you see, his public persona, is the same thing we see internally. You see the warmth and the transparency in his posts; we see the same thing.”

Expecting workers to take initiative

While the company provides the goals it wants to reach, employees have to figure out how to reach those on their own. Goler says that this level of autonomy reminds employees of the value their contributions bring to Facebook.

The company has a culture in which “you don’t have to have a huge amount of experience to be able to do big things,” Zuckerberg told Fast Company in an interview a few years ago.

“That’s been helpful in terms of being able to give really talented folks who haven’t run big things before big roles in the company, and giving them a chance to either show that they can do it, or not,” Zuckerberg says.