Employees need access to environments that enable them to do their best work.
That doesn’t necessarily mean throwing everyone in cubicles or creating an open floor plan for the entire office.
My team and I just put out a new white-paper exploring, How Artificial Intelligence Will Change the Way You Work.
Have you ever wanted to take a nap at work? Well, we found an article you can use to plead your case to your boss. We also included articles that discuss the often looked-over needs of introverts in the workplace, why it is pivotal for companies to stay up to date in HR technology, and why creating a fun workplace is so important. […]
I often get questions from listeners and event attendees about how organizations can sustain certain things such as tenure, growth, revenue, and innovation. My answer to this question is always you can’t sustain these things, nor should you want to try. When I think of sustaining, I think of status quo versus movement and evolution. You can’t sustain these things when the workplace is changing so dramatically. Instead, you must adapt and evolve with the changes that we are starting to see. Your organization should move from maintaining the status quo to progressive thinking. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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?
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![…]
Join me as I go inside the offices of one of the world’s leading technology companies, SAP to see what they think about the future of work. SAP is an organization that is truly thinking about and investing in the future of work with their office designs, focus on attracting millennials, culture of learning and education, diversity programs, and their integration of technology in how work gets done. I tour several of their office buildings, speak with employees, and also interview their Chief Learning Officer (Jenny Dearborn) to get various perspectives on how SAP sees the workplace changing and what they are doing to adapt and prepare. This is a fun and informative episode that you won’t want to miss! […]
Everyone wants to know how the workplace is changing and how we will actually get work done in the next few years. Work is a big part of our lives, in fact it’s the biggest part of our lives! Although this topic can be quite daunting I like to use the acronym FAC to describe what I believe to be three big shifts that we are starting to see in the workplace. […]