A New Way Of Working, According To Edward D. Hess

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‘Start small. Be patient. Reflect on how good you feel every time you work on your self. Experience that inner warmth.’

A mindset that is comfortable with impermanence enables you to be curious about the answers.’

‘The goal is to love exploring and learning every day. The goal is to not end the day with knowing what you knew yesterday.’

‘Humanizing the Workplace requires people to connect, relate, and engage with each other in ways that enable the uniqueness of each individual to contribute to the common purpose and meaningful mission.’

We humans must learn to think differently and that means learning to behave differently.’

It is through conversations that we continue to meet our innate needs for social connection and belongings to a group of team.’

‘Bringing your Best Self to work (Inner Peace) and building work relationships based on emotionally positive connections with others and syncing up with others biochemically will be quite a change, but it will be a change for the better – it will humanize the workplace and allow people to become much more than breathing robots.’

Micro-moments of warmth and connection are the building blocks of caring, trusting relationships.’

‘Leadership must become enable-ship.’

‘Joy cannot occur in an environment dominated by compliance and power over others because such an environment leads to fear and submission.’

‘Joy can only happen in an environment that values you as a unique human being and in which you are encouraged to play to your strengths and further develop yourself.’

The New Way of Working requires a humanistic, people-centric, human-development-focused leadership model.’

Source:

Edward D. Hess (2020). Hyper-Learning: How to Adapt to the Speed of Change

Managing Gen Z At Work

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Watch for Gen Z to combine the physical with the digital in how they consume, live, and work.’

Be open to new additions to the lexicon– they may be visual, video, or even symbolic; all of them can enhance communication.’

‘Allow employees to create their own job titles.’

Incorporate new ways to track, post, monitor, measure, and share performance data.’

Accept that college isn’t the answer for everyone– explore what other avenues can equip Gen Z to have productive lives and careers.’

Understand how intensely Gen Z experiences FOMO.’

Remind employees what they are learning, how they fit into the larger picture, and the achievements they’ve had to help combat career FOMO.’

‘Coach Gen Z on how to establish the credibility and capacity of sources they identified.’

Watch for Gen Z to be entrepreneurial and put that to work internally rather than lose them.’

Keep one foot on the brake pedal to avoid Gen Z going so fast they make critical mistakes.’

Source:

David Stillman and Jonah Stillman (2017). Gen Z at Work: How the Next Generation Is Transforming the Workplace