If you change your leadership assumptions, can you create a powerhouse with the organization or team you already have? The COVID-19 pandemic and an ever-changing array of new ways of working seem to have all of us asking, “Does work really have to suck this bad?” It looks like a small taste of flexibility and freedom has made many of us rethink the nature of the work we do and how we do it.
In this episode Melissa Swift, author of Work Here Now: Think Like a Human and Build a Powerhouse Workplace, gives you a roadmap to better work that generates wins for companies and employees alike. Learn different ways to improve the growth-impeding, borderline inhumane people management practices we’ve created and endured over time. And start with a simple framework questioning your own leadership assumptions to help you make people-centered decisions.
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There’s not necessarily a great reason why work has to suck and ample research shows that when it doesn’t suck it goes better and we’re more productive. Society just kind of works better when work works better. But we’ve been stubbornly resistant to improving it.
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We’ve got these dysfunctional leadership assumptions that people are lazy and people are slow, and those misdirected assumptions have created all of this frustration, headache, and lousy work.
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People have a natural and intrinsic motivation to do and be and create and solve and people are wired in different ways but most people do want to do well at what they’re doing and feel good about what they’re doing.
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We need to unpack our foundational talent management assumptions and look at what decisions have we made on the basis of believing these assumptions.
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There are fundamental assumptions that permeate the modern workplace and as leaders, we need to reflect, examine and question our leadership assumptions.
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We’re losing the traditional workforce.
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Two critical levers for an awesome working culture and what greedy work and animal farm syndrome look like.
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