Make change good/Employees lead the Future of Work/Old workplaces are going/Impro is an answer

Change has got to work for you

Whatever changes are underway, have arrived already or are up ahead on the horizon, they've got to work for you.?

Flexibility at work and changes in locations, roles, ways of working and environments are great... but if they're making things worse for you, that's not good.?

That's not a future you want.?

I love the work of?Lynda Gratton ?- Professor at?London Business School?-- and her book 'Redesigning Work'.?

Read more about her research, insights and a recent presentation she delivered via the article below. It was a great session, where she highlighted that changes in the future of work are impacted and shaped by:

??Societal trends

??Technological trends and

??Life Longevity trends.

It's worth us becoming more knowledgable about what might be next ... next week, next quarter, next year.?

The future of work is not necessarily about the longer term future of 5 or 10 years ahead; it's about what's happening now, and changes that are evolving and shifting every week, month and quarter.?

We need to reinvent as the world of work changes.?

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How to make change good

Gradually. That’s how.?

And although we’ve had our share of rapid and monstrous change over recent times, that shouldn’t make us fear or avoid more change.?

We can change things in different ways.?

One of the most powerful ways to change is continuous improvement.?

And ‘kaizen’ … if you haven’t used or applied it, is a real winner at slow and steady change.?

It’s not a fad or a trend. It’s a proven business practice popularized by?Toyota Motor Corporation.?

This superb practice is applicable to daily life and tackles change in slow, incremental and manageable steps.?

Read on in this article from?Big Think ?and apply some new ways of thinking about change … and new ways of working with change.?

And if you’re already a kaizen fan, keep on improving. Or better still, help and guide others in their knowledge and practice of kaizen.?

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Employees will lead the future of work?

As the future keeps arriving, we keep finding out and learning about what’s working for us.?

A key right now is that employees are ready to “find workplaces that match their priorities with how and where they want to work.”

Some recent research revealed these meaningful insights:?

??The more often businesses take their employee experience into account, the better off they’ll be.

??More than 70 percent of those surveyed said their workplace culture has changed—for the better.?

??Employees have more say than they did in the past.?

These are brilliant changes … along with predictions that work is to become more strategic, meaningful and valuable to the success of the business are encouraging for us when times are tricky.?

We’re all still learning and adapting to what works, how it works and what needs to change next.?

In short : future success won’t happen without listening to employees.?

Read more in this?Forbes?article sharing?Futurum Research ?insights.?

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The Capability of Adaptability

There’s plenty for us to think about regarding the skills we'll need for now, tomorrow and what’s next.??

What if we looked at a mega-capability that could help us??I think that is a capability of adaptability.?

Adaptability is being able to adjust to new situations and conditions — to be flexible and malleable yet not weak.?

How often are you looking at, observing, noticing and connecting dots on a path to being more adaptable??

Can you switch from one thing to another, or flow from one situation to another??Or do you stand still, stuck, rigid, not wanting to shift or move??

Adaptability invites us to flex depending on what’s happening.?

In this series on the 12 elements, I’ll share each of the steps you can take towards gaining greater adaptability.?

Let’s start :

#1 is about EXPERIMENTATION?

Do you run, trial or test things out? Do you try a small scale experiment to see how other elements in the system respond??

Do you retain an open mind to what will happen in the experiment??

And do you encourage your colleagues, friends and circle to ‘try it out’ or ‘have a go and see’?

Experimentation gets us used to not knowing the answer before we start. It’s a key practice in creativity and innovation and vital for change and transformation.?

Stand your ground and be unmoved m … but you’ll be overtaken by those who are more willing to experiment.?

What experiments have you got cooking right now? And what could you launch??

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Improv is an answer

#2 is about IMPROVISATION?

How do you respond to uncertain situations? What will you do or say? How will you behave??

We’d do well to act more from principles than prescriptions because no two situations are ever the same… no two people are ever the same.

Building a practice and capability of improvisation helps us respond to every challenging situation life delivers.?

It’s not the improv that’s necessarily funny or that you see on TV or on stage.?

Improvising is a capability, a practice, and it works from a set of principles that can be learned and put to work.?

I love?Impro Melbourne ?… my local improv troupe. I ‘play’ each week in their Impro Gym class to build my capability of responding to uncertainty.?

A BIG part of this is trusting myself … that I have great resources within, great ideas, contributions and knowledge at the ready. If I trust myself more and censor myself less, I can better use improv to respond, adapt and progress.

Build your improv capability and you’ll be way more adaptable.?

Aaaaand scene.?

More in this series over the next couple of weeks. Keep a look out for the visual and each of the dots will get filled in with a capability that helps us build our adaptability.

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Old workplaces are going going gone

Boards, leaders and executives need to decide, commit and then collaborate with their teams and people on flexible work.?

This is such a great piece from?Gallup ?- sending it on to several clients who are hovering, indecisive, waiting to 'see what happens'. Thank you for the share??Phil Kirschner .

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That's this week's recap!

Lynne

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Lynne Cazaly is a work futurist and expert in new ways of working.?

She is an international keynote speaker and award winning author with her ideas and thoughts?published in 10 books. ?She consults to leaders, teams and businesses guiding them through their adoption of new and creative ways of working as they respond to changes in work.?

Read more at?www.lynnecazaly.com