A few days ago I did a video on employee new year’s resolutions, so it’s only fair that I do the same thing for managers. So here are three things I hope managers can work in in 2016. […]
The employee experience is not a static thing, it’s a moving target and in fact there is no single experience for every employee, there are many experiences. So how can organizations create this continuous cycle? The best way to think about designing employee experiences is as a never-ending infinity loop or a type of continuum that has four parts FIDE (but keep in mind they don’t have to follow this order). […]
By now I hope we can all agree that work-life balance is dead and that instead we are moving towards a world of work-life integration. In this very special episode of The Future in 5, I am joined by Anne, Raimondi who is the SVP of Strategy at Zendesk. In the video below Anne shares her top three tips to better integrate work and life![…]
This is part of a series of posts exploring the employee experience, that is, creating a place where employees actually want to show up, not where they need to show up. This series will explore what I define as the three employee experience environments that all organizations much focus on which are: physical, cultural, and technological. This is a growing area that I am extremely passionate about because it sees organizations shifting away from thinking of work as a utility to actually focusing on creating what Pat Wadors (the chief Human Resources Officer of Linkedin) calls “beautiful experiences.”
here have been a lot of articles written about Google’s amazing workplace culture. Many organizations today are seeing the press and fanfare regarding how great the organization is and are trying to copy it. Google has an open floor plan? We want an open floor plan! Google lets you bring your dog to work? We have to do that too! Google has unlimited meals and on-site dry-cleaning? We must have that too! It doesn’t always have to be Google though, it can be Netflix, Facebook, Linkedin, or any other “cool” company out there. The thing to remember is that these other organizations aren’t investing in these things for fun or because they wan all the media attention. They are doing it because these things fit within their corporate culture, values, mission, vision, and strategic direction. […]
Many of the themes surrounding the Future of Work are enabled by technology. The big challenge for many organizations involves getting employees to use new technologies such as collaboration tools and internal social networks. If employees do not use them, it makes it difficult for the components and themes involving the future of work to actually become possible for example flexible work, real-time feedback, or abolishing annual employee reviews. Typically, when technology is deployed within an organization, the focus is on its benefits to the organization as a whole. Pushing forward the benefits such as cost cutting, productivity, and making money for the organization does not always appeal to the employee as an individual benefit.[…]
Over the past few years there have been many discussions around the death and disappearance of the office. Most believed that with co-working locations, the spread of Wi-Fi and mobility, and the rise of co-working locations that there would be no need for an office anymore. We would all work from anywhere and everywhere and this was of course a fair and reasonable prediction. But, it’s not entirely true. Our traditional idea of an office is in fact disappearing, that is the row of cubicles lined in a building that looks and smells like a hospital but the office itself is far from dead![…]
Today’s Future in 5 comes to you from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I just came back from Santiago, Chile where I spoke to around 1,000 HR practitioners and leaders from many different companies in the Latin American and South American regions. After my talk, I was asked a question I thought would be a great topic for this week. When trying to drive change, should a company invest in the technology piece first, or invest in corporate culture first? […]
Just like technology changes everyday, so do the needs of employees. Successful technology companies know the importance of innovating to
So what’s the #1 way to keep employees engaged? Simple, don’t let the engagement drop off when employees start working there and don’t treat engagement as an adrenaline shot. […]