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10 Activities Leaders Must Embrace to Lead With Impact in the Future of Work

Impact Makers Podcast Episode 073

As we close out 2022, I’m focusing this month on how I can best prepare myself – and you – for a successful 2023.

In my world, this time of year is typically filled with prediction posts and podcasts, where thought leaders share what they believe will be the challenges and opportunities ahead in the new year, related to the world of work.

Since my focus is on preparing leaders – like you – to embrace the future of work, and to develop the skills necessary to lead with impact, instead of making predictions that may or may not come true, I’m sharing 10 areas and activities that are critical for leaders to focus on, in order to lead with impact in the future of work.

1. Fight for Flexibility for Your Team Members

People want to effortlessly work how, where, when, and for whom they want.

  • 40% of respondents in McKinsey’s Great Attrition Great Attraction Survey published in September 2021, said that Flexibility was the number one reason they accepted their current job.
  • According to Shiftboard’s State of the Hourly Worker Report, scheduling is the #1 complaint of hourly workers and the #1 cause of turnover.
  • 85% of the hourly workers who participated in the survey reported that scheduling affects their overall job satisfaction.

2. Prioritize Career Growth and Development Opportunities for Your People

  • According to Gloat Research Group’s Great Resignation 2.0 Report, the number one reason given by employees who took a new job as to why they would leave again was the lack of career development opportunities.
  • The same survey revealed that 54% of the employees surveyed reported that their employers either don’t take their future interests and aspirations into consideration enough or not at all.

3. Help Your People to Connect with Meaning and Purpose in Their Work

Connect people to something bigger than themselves and help them contribute.

According to Gallup research, a 10% improvement in employees’ connection with the Mission or Purpose of their organization leads to an 8.1% decrease in turnover and a 4.4% increase in profitability.

I love this quote from Laszlo Bock, the current CEO & Co-founder of Humu and former Google SVP of People Operations: “The single biggest thing you can do [as a leader] is make the work feel meaningful.”

What is an organization’s Purpose? It’s what we do for our customers. Some good examples:

  • Nourishing families so they can flourish and thrive – Kellogg
  • We fulfill dreams of personal freedom – Harley Davidson
  • We help people get jobs – Indeed.com

4. Commit to Real Change and Action with Your Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Efforts

  • Set meaningful goals
  • Track progress
  • Hold leaders accountable
  • Incentivize leaders

To learn more about how to do this, check out Impact Makers Episode #51 – The Value of Taking a Strategic Approach to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with Jennifer Ingram.

5. Invest in Your Leaders – Specifically Front-Line Supervisors

The biggest gains businesses will witness in the future will come from hiring and training the right managers, who care for, develop, and maximize the strengths of every single employee.

Why is this so important?

Gallup found that 70% of the variance between the highest engaged teams and persistently disengaged teams is just the manager (based on meta-analytics of 100 million employee interviews).

6. Focus On Skills Identification and Development

I think this quote from Jonas Prising, Chairman & CEO of ManpowerGroup, sums it up:

“Helping people to pre-skill, upskill and reskill for in-demand roles in this Skills Revolution remains the defining challenge of this decade. It was important before the pandemic and is even more critical now – to create a better workplace where everyone is able to unleash their full human potential and have a more equitable share of the prosperity.”

Listen to Impact Makers Episode #64: Creating Career Pathways to Unlock Opportunity for the Workforce of the Future with Matthew Daniel to learn more.

7. SEE Your People

  • Show Appreciation.
  • Give Recognition.
  • Value Differences.

According to the results of a SurveyMonkey/Bonusly Survey, 63% of employees who are regularly recognized were “very unlikely” to look for a job in the next 6 months, and 89% of employees who are rarely recognized are open to accepting a new job.

Similarly, McKinsey’s Great Attrition Great Attraction Survey found the number one reason why people left a job without another one in hand was uncaring leaders.

8. Grow Yourself

  • Own your Personal Development.
  • Set goals, track your progress, and hold yourself accountable.
  • Challenge yourself to learn aspects of business and leadership that are not within your current responsibilities.

9. Develop Your Influence

  • Invest in relationships.
  • Build trust.
  • Share your ideas.

“You don’t get influence through control. You get influence through other people’s positive experience of you. You get influence through people wanting you involved – not by telling them you have to be.”
— Neil Morrison, Former Group HR Director, Penguin Random House now Group HR Director at Severn Trent Water

10. Embrace (and Lead) Disruption

  • Change is a constant.
  • Stay curious and seek out ways to lead change efforts.

Did you know that leaders are much more likely to engage in quiet quitting than their actual workers? Listen to Impact Makers Episode #63: Defining Return on Workforce Investment in the Future of Work with Dr. Alexander Alonso and learn what you can do to mitigate this.

IMPACT MAKERS PODCAST – EPISODE 73

People & Resources Mentioned In This Episode:

Workplace from Meta

Show Sponsor:

This episode of the Impact Makers Podcast is sponsored by Workplace from Meta.

Everybody’s talking about the metaverse these days, but Workplace from Meta is different – I mean, the clue’s in the name, right?

Workplace is a business communication tool that uses features like instant messaging and video calls to help people share information. Think Facebook, but for your company.

It’s part of Meta’s vision for the future of work – a future in which your job isn’t just something you do, but something you EXPERIENCE. A future in which we’ll all feel more present, connected, and productive.

Start your journey into the future of work at workplace.com/future.

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Categories: Blog, Leadership, Podcast
Posted on December 21, 2022

Written by Jennifer McClure

How to Make Work Suck Less By Making It Fun with Jeff Harry

Impact Makers Podcast Episode 067

These days, every workplace expert and futurist worth their salt is talking about The Great Resignation, Quiet Quitting, burnout, and dwindling employee engagement levels.

Some are even offering solutions to these problems, including showing more empathy, focusing on improving access to mental health benefits, offering more workplace flexibility, and suggesting increased communication from leadership.

But I’ve not heard anyone suggesting that we can address these issues through introducing more play and fun in the workplace – until I met today’s guest, Jeff Harry of Rediscover Your Play.

Jeff is passionate about making work suck less, and he does this by assisting leaders in building a workplace where individuals learn how to tap into their true selves, to feel their happiest and most fulfilled–all through play!

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

  • The two questions to ask your leaders to understand your company culture.
  • The difference between forced fun, and introducing play in the workplace.
  • Why allowing yourself to get bored is the key to unlocking creativity and innovation.
  • How to address quiet quitting through play.
  • Why psychological safety is required before introducing fun or play into the workplace.
  • The reason why meetings suck, and what you can do to fix it.
  • How what drove you back when you were a kid can really answer  questions like “How do you  want to show up in the world?”
  • How can you cultivate the next great idea?
  • How to add more play to your grown-up life.

IMPACT MAKERS PODCAST – EPISODE 67

Key Quotes From This Episode:

“What is the worst behavior you are currently tolerating [in your workplace]? Because that sets the tone, that sets the culture.” ~ @Jeff Harry

“Allow yourself to get bored the way you got bored as a kid. And then, when you get bored and…you’re not being inundated by information or not looking at information, then just see what ideas start to come up.” ~ @Jeff Harry

“Challenge the status quo because clearly it’s not working for a majority of people if we have such high disengagement, such high absenteeism and, such a movement around like anti-work or Quiet Quitting.” ~ @Jeff Harry

People & Resources Mentioned In This Episode:

Workplace from Meta

Rediscover Your Play 

Jeff Harry LinkedIn 

Play-Well TEKnologies – Teaching Engineering to Kids

Gary Ware – Breakthrough Play

Impact Makers Podcast Episode 67: Building a Culture of Mindfulness and Supporting Employee Mental Health with Headspace CPO Désirée Pascual

Braver Angels

harkness.ai

Lauren Yee – Cultivator of Curiosity

Show Sponsor:

This episode of the Impact Makers Podcast is sponsored by Workplace from Meta.

Everybody’s talking about the metaverse these days, but Workplace from Meta is different – I mean, the clue’s in the name, right?

Workplace is a business communication tool that uses features like instant messaging and video calls to help people share information. Think Facebook, but for your company.

It’s part of Meta’s vision for the future of work – a future in which your job isn’t just something you do, but something you EXPERIENCE. A future in which we’ll all feel more present, connected, and productive.

Start your journey into the future of work at workplace.com/future.

Connect with Jennifer:

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Categories: Employee Engagement, Leadership, Podcast
Posted on October 20, 2022

Written by Jennifer McClure

Defining Return on Workforce Investment in the Future of Work with Dr. Alexander Alonso

Impact Makers Podcast Episode 063

Did you know that leaders are much more likely to engage in quiet quitting than their actual workers?

They are showing signs of fatigue without any kind of recognition or remuneration for what they’ve done to lead others.

How does this impact the future of work? And what can the leaders of leaders do to help mitigate quiet quitting?

In this episode, I’m joined by Dr. Alexander Alonso, the Chief Knowledge Officer for the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), who shares some valuable insights into reinventing the future of work.

The good news? You don’t have to be an HR leader to get something out of our discussion.

We talked about what research shows has changed over the last couple of years in regards to how employees view the workplace, and what they’re looking for employers to provide them that differs from the past.

I also learned several new things in our discussion, including what it means to “Get Netflixed”, what the acronym GESHWI means – and how we’ll all be using it – and the price that some people are willing to pay for being petty at work, as well as the benefits of learning how to discuss taboo subjects in the workplace.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:​​

  • The effects of focusing proactively on mental wellness in the workplace.
  • Why leaders are more likely to engage in “quiet quitting” than those who work for them.
  • What employees are looking to employers to provide them today, that differs from the past.
  • What GESHWI means, and how it correlates to EBITDA.
  • What it means to “Get Netflixed”, and why you don’t want that for your company.

IMPACT MAKERS PODCAST – EPISODE 63

Key Quotes From This Episode:

“We’re empowering employers to bring mental health forward as a priority for their workers.”~ @Dr. Alexander Alonso

“Leaders are much more likely to engage in quiet quitting than their actual workers. And the reason for that is they’re showing signs of fatigue without any kind of recognition or remuneration for what they’ve done to lead others.” ~ @Dr. Alexander Alonso

“Don’t have the kind of conversations and the culture where…eventually your company is going to appear on Netflix in some documentary series where they’re talking about how horrible you were.” ~ @Dr. Alexander Alonso

People & Resources Mentioned In This Episode:

Meta from Workplace

Alexander Alonso, PhD SHRM-SCP

The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)

Johnny C. Taylor, Jr.

SHRM Foundation

SHRM Labs

SHRM Research Institute

The Price of Pettiness: Bad Behavior in the Workplace and How to Stomp It Out by Alex Alonso

Talking Taboo: Making the Most of Polarizing Discussions at Work by Alexander Alonso

Show Sponsor:

This episode of the Impact Makers Podcast is sponsored by Workplace from Meta.

Everybody’s talking about the metaverse these days, but Workplace from Meta is different – I mean, the clue’s in the name, right?

Workplace is a business communication tool that uses features like instant messaging and video calls to help people share information. Think Facebook, but for your company.

It’s part of Meta’s vision for the future of work – a future in which your job isn’t just something you do, but something you EXPERIENCE. A future in which we’ll all feel more present, connected, and productive.

Start your journey into the future of work at workplace.com/future.

Connect with Jennifer:

Send her a message [https://jennifermcclure.net/contact/]

On LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifermcclure

On Twitter: https://twitter.com/JenniferMcClure

On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jennifer_mcclure/

On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/JenniferMcClureSpeaker

Categories: Leadership, Podcast
Posted on September 15, 2022

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