What You Can Do Before The Window Closes

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In yesterday’s article - the theory behind the “Beware, the window is closing, don’t let this momentous opportunity slip away” warning. In today’s video the more practical side of things - what you can do as a team leader or even a mere team member.?

https://youtu.be/rXlG_FI58M8

• If your company has offered any “Organisational Permission” and said they are prepared to radically change the way work is performed not only in the location but every other aspect as well then this is the time to take that work forward at a team level;
• Don’t wait for anything other - continue those big Why/How/What conversations at your own bubble level, do your Team Relaunches and re-contract the processes and behaviours you want to see happening in your own team;
• Go back to the organisation and ask for what you need. Whether it is time to engage in the much-needed HumanWork or tools to do so (software like our Dashboard, new project management and collaboration tools, whatever it is that will make your bubble safe and performant) - this is the time to ask for it now that the organisational permission is there;
• Keep them accountable - no empty webinars or motivational weeks of talking about bravery that are followed by no quantifiable way to improve courage across the organisation in a blameless culture where failure is celebrated; no talking about compassion and empathy and how important it is to be mindful of each other and then no one once doing 1-on-1s or asking what the best time for your individual work is when WFH; no lip-service to flexibility while there are plans circulated for a return to the office; no talk about self-care to combat burnout followed by being asked to attend several meetings at once?or to pack your calendar with back-to-back’s, and so many more. Don’t allow these moments of complete dissonance to happen, speak up and point them out.?

Even if you suspect the organisational permission and enthusiasm about these human topics and the big changes were never truly meant and more of workplace keeping up with the Jones or even post-Covid virtue signalling, the window is still there if the rhetorics still reverberates down the virtual hallways so use it to lay some fundamental ground work that will carry you far.?

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