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Finding Purpose at Work? Here's What They Don't Tell You
We all know that finding purpose in our work is one of the most important factors in job satisfaction and overall happiness. Yet here's the uncomfortable truth: most of us find ourselves in roles that align more with our skills and market demand than our childhood dreams. And you know what? That's perfectly okay.
Play Can Connect and Promote Team Performance
Yet the best teams, the most engaged, prosocial, and connected, use play.
Play connects us, play opens up our neural pathways, play diminishes group norms, play brings our true self to the table.
Team Engagement, Retention, and Experience, OH MY!
Engagement, Retention, and Experience, OH MY! This was the the theme of last nights joyful networking event. Some of the questions: 🤔 Build a model that shows what environments or conditions you have found to be most conducive to fostering employee engagement🤔💡 Build a model that that shows what strategies you have used to measure and improve retention rates🤔💡🤖 Build a model that shows how technology has transformed engagement, retention, and/or employee experience in your organization. This goes to show the power of LEGO Serious Play and how it can connect and engage both teams and people who don’t work together.
AI Tools Exist to Boost Team Performance
As we get more and more tools to improve efficiency and communication, it will become even more important for organizations to figure out how to empower teams to work together at their best. This is no easy task, especially in the face of more challenging ways of working; remote, hybrid, and distributed. My hypothesis is that the most important skills to build right now are people skills. The capacity to collaborate, innovate, and create together is where the true value will be in the coming years.
The Tradeoffs of Virtual Vs In-Person Work
In essence, the choice between virtual and in-person work isn't about deciding which is superior. It's about recognizing and balancing the tradeoffs: the convenience and flexibility of virtual work against the potentially richer, more nuanced communication that comes with face-to-face interactions.
How Progressive and Conservative Viewpoints Shape Organizational Culture
The conservative approach may stifle growth by not changing or growing fast enough (Blockbuster anyone?) The progressive approach may change too much and too fast, creating chaos. Not every idea is a good idea, (Many are just downright bad) and risk is part of doing anything new. Thus a balance will be struck somewhere in-between based on the core attitudes and beliefs of the organization or group.
Boost Employee Engagement with Bare Bones Drafts
Imagine pouring your best effort into a project or deck, only to have it completely reversed or changed when shared. Not only is this a detriment to engagement of an employee or team, but it might even result in turnover if it happens often.
This is a huge problem for leaders that are not great communicators.
Keeping Time - With LEGO Serious Play
In this video I use elements of the LEGO Serious Play Method (which I use for workshops and team building) to dissect the time in your day.
Four Pillars to Build Solid Communities
As we hopefully near the end of the pandemic, the focus on community is strong. People are finding new virtual communities, re-entering in person communities, and forging hybrid variations. As we develop and grow our communities moving forward, we will build strong and healthy ones by focusing on the pillars of purpose, activities, relationships, and exchange
VIRTUAL MEETINGS DON’T HAVE TO BE HORRIBLE:
Unlock the potential of virtual meetings with these proven strategies to combat Zoom fatigue and foster engagement. Dive into five actionable tips to make your online sessions more efficient and human-centered, improving outcomes and team collaboration.