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The Future in 5

The Top 3 Tips To Create A Connected Company

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Neeru Arora, the Chief Information Officer and Chief Knowledge Officer for Aon, recently joined me at the Future of Work Forum in Chicago. Aon is a prominent professional services firm that serves many top Forture 500 companies. They are the leading provider of risk management, insurance, human resource solutions, and more! Aon advises their clients on a daily basis around topics such as retirement, talent, capital, and analytics. It is a very culturally diverse organization with 72,000 colleagues in 120 countries. They strive to create a connected company for a better experience, for employees and clients! […]

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Should You Have To Work 40 Hours A Week?

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Why are we so fixated on a 40 hour work week? Do we need to work that much? There is shift from focusing on the input that is required to the outputs that are created, and rightly so! We now have technology that allows us to work anywhere, at any time. Just because a manager doesn’t see an employee logging time doesn’t mean they aren’t earning their salary. Tracking hours is becoming an archaic idea in the world that we live in. Instead, organizations should focus on good quality and punctual work from employees that collaborate and communicate. […]

The Future in 5

The Top Three Tips For Understanding The Workforce Of The Future

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I’m coming to you from Washington, D.C. in this episode of The Future in Five with a special guest – Ron Painter. Ron is the President and CEO of the National Association of Workforce Boards (NAWB). We explore the top three tips that Ron gives for understanding the workforce of the future. The tips involve community, networking and communication, and empathy and sympathy. According to Ron, you should focus on your community resources and support, the rhythm of your community, and the values and visions of it. […]

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Should You Treat Your Employees And Freelancers Differently?

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In this episode of The Future in Five, I explore whether all team members should be treated equally or if it should depend on their employment status. While it is important to discern the difference between employees and freelancers for certain reasons such as data, all should be treated as key members of your team… no matter how infrequent or little their work. Do your employees and freelancers all have access to the same benefits and information?[…]

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Three Unconventional Ways To Get Ahead At Your Company

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As much as we keep hearing about the gig and freelancer economy, the reality is that most of still have full time jobs and at least for the foreseeable future this won’t change. This means that for most of us we still want to know how to succeed and thrive in the jobs and roles that we are in. However, most of the pieces of advice we hear about recommend things like making your manager look good, taking on extra work, trying to become friends with others, and the like. Instead, I want to propose a few non-conventional yet powerful approaches that employees can use to get ahead at work. […]

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Six Steps To Adapt To The Future Of Work

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When I was writing my book, The Future of Work, I created a framework for adapting to coming changes that I call “The Six-Step Process for Adapting to the Future of Work.” (It was inspired in part by John Kotter’s well known “8-Step Process for Leading Change.”) I will be exploring my six-step process on a webinar in a few weeks, but here are the steps and what they entail (They’re best thought of as a never-ending loop) […]

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The 6 Freelance Work Models For All Organizations

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Whether you call them contingent workers, freelancers, 1099 workers, or anything else, it appears that organizations around the world are thinking of ways to tap into this new workforce. While the size of this group is still not known (reports vary quite a bit), all of the business leaders I have been speaking with are thinking of ways to spend more money and resources investing in this area. […]

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