Meet change in the workplace half way: experiment, be flexible, embrace
We are in a period of significant change in the workplace. Digital tools and data-driven decision making are even impacting a simple author, spiritual teacher and public speaker like me!
From my days in corporate life, I know it is important to embrace change rather than to hide from it.
What are the changes and what should I be doing about them?
Don’t get left behind and be in the hard position of having to catch-up. This is much harder than taking each change as it come towards you. When times get financially hard in your business, it is always tempting to cut the training budget as it appears not to be customer or bottom line affecting. With so much change happening in the workplace, this is not the time to do it. Those who invest will get greater productivity, more team engagement and make better decisions which all leads to a better bottom line.
Having moved to London, I have found few people smile at you in a city. My nieces, who grew up in the Scottish Highlands and now work in London, confirmed that they find the same. It is very unlike home where people smile and say ‘Good morning’. One of them said they were determined to keep smiling at people to see how many she could get to respond. What an excellent idea!
Toxic managers can be challenging and also detrimental to your calmness and well-being. I know this from first hand experience. I was a senior executive successfully delivering a business change programme but I had the meanest manager I had ever experienced. He was a short New Yorker who loved to shout and belittle people. He did not respect that I lived in a different time zone from him and would call me late into my evening. Normally a confident person, my self-esteem and confidence hit rock bottom. It was a very unhappy period in my life.
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