I recently was a keynote speaker for the online Future Of Work Conference.
The future of work presentation was created to help businesses consider the future of work and the future of their business.
This presentation should act as a guide and inspiration on how to rethink your current approach and lead your company and lean into the future.
As a huge advocate for hybrid work and the hybrid office (aka an arena), many businesses are requesting their staff to return to the office at least 3 days a week (including Apple & Google), with this in mind, the presentation enables any version of hybrid to work.
The deck is broken down into 8 quick-fire sections:
The current state – broken world of work
The company of the future
How we address the issues
The Focus WorkGraph
8 Concepts To Consider
How to be successful
Apps to use for what and when
Here are the important sections of the presentation explained:
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Broken World Of Work
This has to stop
The busy badge of honour has to stop, overbooked is not work
The 9 area’s of company culture to help your become successful
The Future Work Co – What Work Will Look & Operate Like
This is the future work co
The future work co is to create a company building and servicing a global community
The future work co has a work from anywhere policy
Yes WFA – anywhere
The onboarding process is slick
Futurist and fully immersive onboarding
Supply the best tools of the trade
The future is interactive and connected
Yes FutureCoin – actually internal currency
Support being active by supporting charities and local causes via crowdfunding campaigns
Perks and performance are delivered to you
Inspire colleagues
Competition and gamification
The future work co supplies health kits and bespoke blends
The future work co goes deeper than manager and hierarchy, offering professional coaching
Check in’s aren’t forced and are connected to development plans
Investment into your space and commutes
Going further than static feedback, understanding performance indicators and having your own dashboard for your vitals
Vending Machine – No need to request and ask for information or where do I find x
Quarterly team getaways
Passed the onboarding
The Focus WorkGraph
2020 – 2021 The WorkGraph Was Impacted By Covid
The Focus WorkGraph is more than just interaction and proximity
You are commonly just set up with a buddy & this is your team
The workgraph is noisy, it can be misleading and too many loose connections
The unfollow button has a huge impact on your business success
The great unfollow “action” is rarely spoken of but is an important action that happens frequently
Maybe we should help colleagues craft their WorkGraph and actively map this out
The 8 Concepts
Concept 1: Two sets of people 1st office people and knowing the importance of face time, 2nd is hybrid people and knowing the importance
Concept 2: Focus spaces for deepwork
Concept 3: Substitutions staff might offer more flexibility and better performance
Concept 4: Loans system similar to sport to develop staff and retain great colleagues with potential
Concept 5: New office options
Concept 5: Why the options apply
Concept 5: Side hustles will be help those passionate about passion projects
Renting local spaces and collectives forming
Concept 6: Leadership training and development
Concept 7: Holograms being used vs just screens
We are going to be 2d floating heads, it’s already started
To read more about concept 4: read this the loan system concept post and how it could improve your business and develop your people.
How To Be Successful & Address Issues
We always look for more, we should look for fewer and more deliberate
Here are 7 ways to improve your operations
Learn external platforms to apply internally
Tools you can review and look at to progress your company
Stop saying you’re doing it wrong or this is not right, show how people how to be successful
Successful tools matrix: Tools and software should be for deliberate action and have their use cases
Framework to think about hybrid first office
In the coming months, many businesses are going to have to make hard decisions about their future, about how to design the office, how hybrid will impact company culture, how to embrace the future of hybrid office and ensure all of their staff are listened to and developed, alongside improving business performance and hitting core KPI’s and OKR’s.
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