Finding Meaning at Work & Strategies to navigate the War on Talent

THINKING YELLOW

Yellow is creative from a mental aspect, the colour of new ideas, helps us to find new ways of doing things. It is the practical thinker, not the dreamer. It is the best colour to create enthusiasm for life and can awaken greater confidence and optimism.

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"But I do think work can be a source of real meaning in life. But, we’ll only ever get out what we put in. And in the case of work life, it is kind of a collective decision."??Brie Wolfson, working at Stripe

Brie Wolfson has shared a tremendously article about the role work has in our lives, and questions whether all the effort we put into keeping work at arm’s length is actually holding us back from being our best selves.

If leaders are able to create inclusive communities at work will it drive their long-term succes?

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THE STONECUTTERS BLOCK

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the 100 & First blow, it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.” Jacob Riis

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"People will become long-term, deeply engaged employees of your company if their work experience is what they expect it to be and if your firm’s values and attributes match theirs. You do a disservice to your organisation—and to prospective employees—if you try to be all things to all people."?Tamara J. Erickson?and?Lynda Gratton

?According to Erickson & Gratton from the Harvard Business Review, the best strategy for coming out ahead in the war for talent isn’t to scoop up everyone in sight, unless you want to deal with the fallout: high turnover, high recruitment and training costs, and disengaged, unproductive employees.

Instead, you need to convince the right people—those who are intrigued and excited by the work environment you can realistically offer and who will reward you with their loyalty—to choose you.

Organisations that have created productive and engaged workforces address those preferences by following some general principles:?

1. They target potential employees as methodically as they target potential customers; they shape their signature experiences to address business needs
2. They identify and preserve their histories; they share stories—not just slogans—about life in the firm
3. They create processes consistent with their signature experiences
4. They understand that they shouldn’t try to be all things to all people.

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QUESTION TIME

Questioning techniques are important because they can stimulate learning, develop the potential to think, drive clear ideas, stir the imagination, and incentive to act.

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1. Considering your organisation,?would you recommend working here to a friend or family member?