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The Significance of Flexible Work Arrangements: Why 89% of Employees Say It’s Critical
The modern workforce is evolving, and flexible work arrangements are at the heart of that transformation. In fact, 89% of employees now say that a company offering flexibility is somewhat or extremely important, according to the recent Bentley-Gallup Business in...
The Four-Day Workweek: A Transformative Approach to Employee Wellbeing
In today's evolving workplace, employee wellbeing is a top priority. According to the latest Bentley-Gallup Business in Society Survey report, three in four U.S. workers believe that a four-day, 40-hour workweek would significantly enhance their wellbeing. This data...
Guide to Mapping Workforce Skills to Future Business Needs
The ability to effectively map current workforce skills against future business needs is needed more today than ever before. Companies that excel in this domain are better equipped to adapt, innovate, and remain competitive. This guide outlines practical tools and...
How to Conduct Effective Skills Assessments and Gap Analyses for Your Teams
Ensuring teams possess the right skills is paramount, yet identifying which skills are needed where can be challenging. Conducting effective skills assessments and gap analyses is crucial for pinpointing areas of improvement and aligning the workforce with...
Strategies for Upskilling Existing Employees to Meet Evolving Job Requirements
Upskilling is crucial to aligning your workforce with the latest industry trends and technological advancements. It helps maintain operational efficiency and prepares your team to tackle new challenges head-on. Assessing Current Skills and Future Needs Begin by...
Mapping Workforce Skills to Future Business Needs: Essential Tools and Techniques
Companies that excel in forecasting and fulfilling their future skill requirements are more likely to outpace their competitors in innovation, efficiency, and market adaptability. This guide explores essential tools and techniques for effective employee skill mapping,...
Conducting Effective Skills Assessments and Gap Analyses: A Strategic Guide
Ensuring teams possess the right skills are paramount and sometimes hard to identify what skills are needed where. Conducting effective skills assessments and gap analyses is crucial for identifying areas of improvement and aligning the workforce with organizational...
What if HR tech was our new asset to creating a better workplace?
The Future of work has accelerated by at least 5 or 10 years It feels like the fifth Industrial revolution, except people aren’t migrating to city offices. Indeed, San Francisco's downtown golden age is over. The streets and buildings are still under-occupied, if not...
Disrupt 2022 – Dream of a greater experience for your hybrid team
1- What’s wrong with the new Hybrid workspace?
2- The transition phase is about picking up the right tools to help design a new culture of trust
3- The new way
To build a culture of trust, communication is your #1 skill
Trust perception combines three psychological factors:
1- competence
2- benevolence
3- honesty.
Considering that one of the most critical skills of a Manager (especially in the virtual world) is communication, you can’t build trust without being intentional about connecting with EACH of your teammates. And not just with teammates you like or know better or meet in person.
Suppose you don’t compensate for virtual distance with an intentional mindset to make it a point (this should be a virtual work value) to over-communicate with fairness with everyone on your team. In that case, you run the risk of being perceived as incompetent. Pretty harsh, but good to know.
The big picture: trust is the new employee experience
The Employee Experience market ($15 Billion markets in early 2021) mirrors the Customer Experience Market with the same operational marketing, workflows, or tools and tactics. At the strategic level, a high-performing culture is the cornerstone of a better experience, more engagement, and productivity.
A quick tip to improve your EI as a leader
There are multiple techniques to reframe emotions, but I believe the most effective one is the simplest and the most respectful to our human nature. It consists of giving the benefit of the doubt.
1. Manage pressure
2. Avoid negative bias
About being a great coach and strong virtual leader
No need to be an expert to be a great coach for virtual teams.
Here are simple tips for approaching coaching conversations as a virtual manager:
1. Identify what communication mode -video or call- feels safer for your team member
2. Explore how you can help by asking simple questions and stay silent to listen
3. Disconnect critical discussions from the daily flow as much as possible
2 steps to help you motivate your virtual team in uncertain times
1. Management is about being a translator, also in the virtual world
2. Being a virtual leader is about individual growth and playing to your strengths
3 things to help you shape your new virtual leadership style
1. Look up for the right model of leadership to build your style
2. Be aware of cognitive biases
3. Stop the vicious circle about being always on
Three Reasons To Work On Your Remote Team Morale
We’re starting to understand what really matters for leadership in a remote environment. Do we take the Twitter route on the “forever” WFH experience? What was still the future of work only a few months ago has become our reality. By force of circumstances, whether we...
