Jacob Morgan | Best-Selling Author, Speaker, & Futurist | Leadership | Future of Work | Employee Experience

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What Happened To Experience At Work?

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While visiting the famous Louvre Museum in Paris recently, it struck me that we spend a lot of time, money, resources, and attention on creating personal experiences. These experiences give us memories and make us feel good. So why don’t we do the same for work? We should care about work experiences just as much as personal experiences yet that is sorely lacking today. If we want to attract and retain top talent in our organizations, we must create an experience that makes employees WANT to show up to work. Why do you think experience is absent at work? How can we get it back? […]

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What Are The Side Effects Of Working At Your Company?

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In this episode of the Future in Five, I discuss the correlation between your job and the side effects it can cause. We have all heard that prescription drugs cause side effects such as hair loss, skin discoloration, weight loss, and sometimes death! When you see those commercials on television, don’t you wonder who would ever want to take that drug? What if we applied that method of thinking to our organization? Some companies may cause stress, anxiety, depression, weight fluctuation, and more! Others could result in positive side effects like a sense of purpose and self direction, improved personal life, and career development […]

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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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Can We Have Too Much Transparency In Our Organizations?

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Transparency is a simple word with a complex meaning. Companies like Buffer for example are completely transparent with salaries. Employees can see the pay scale for each position internally and in fact, even if you don’t work for the company you can see how much money everyone there makes. Many employees are looking to their leaders to be transparent with information and with the internal workings of their companies. However, perhaps there is such as thing as being too transparent! […]

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Why Your Physical Workspace Is Just As Important As Your Physical Appearance

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First impressions are important. When you meet someone for the first time appearance matters. If they show up disheveled and not “put together” then you get a very different vibe versus if they show up with their hair combed and a nice outfit versus if they show up in something casual. Each appearance gives you a different vibe. The same feelings happen when employees walk into a workspace. If an employee walks into an office and all the walls are stark, everyone is in cubicles, and people are dressed suites and ties then the vibe might be boring, not innovative, and very conservative. Now imagine walking into a different workspace with an open floor plan, touch screens on the walls, and workers buzzing about actively engaging with each other. This typically gives off a vibe that is more about innovation, collaboration, and engagement. […]

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5 Signs You’re Working For A Truly Great Company

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If you were to ask people, “what makes a great company,” you would get quite a variety of responses. It’s one of those things that’s hard to define but easy to identify if you are part of a great company. I’ve had the opportunity to interview, work and speak with some of the world’s top business leaders to find out how they run their respective organizations and have noticed a few things that I wanted to share here. It’s great to see what there are organizations such as Glassdoor and the Great Place To Work Institute that score and rank organizations around being a “best” or “great” place to work. Still, there many organizations that aren’t on that list and are still wonderful places to work. Truly great companies have a “future-proof” advantage. So how can you tell if you are working for a truly great company? Here are five signs to look out for. […]

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Why Giving Employees A Sense Of Purpose Is Not Enough To Drive Engagement

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There’s no doubt that employees who have a sense of purpose at work will be more engaged and productive. We all want to feel like we are contributing to something and that our jobs have meaning. While purpose is indeed a critical factor when thinking about designing employee experiences, it cannot stand alone. In other words, simply giving employees a sense of purpose at work isn’t going to drive engagement. From what I have seen, there are actually three things that are required.

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Are Managers Lying To Us?

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I recently spoke at a conference in Pittsburgh, and while waiting for my flight I started thinking about some recent conversations I’ve had with managers and executives at various organizations. Many of these leaders have stated how much they care about driving change, employee engagement, diversity and modernization in the workplace. However, when we look at many organizations, we see that oftentimes the exact opposite is true; employees are not engaged, work spaces are not modern, there is no diversity and the organization struggles to change at a snail’s pace. So how can these leaders and executives say they care about these things when these things are still prevalent? How can we bridge the gap between what companies want to do, and what they can do?

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