Lauren Friese & Jennifer Moss on The Future Workplace
Lauren Friese | Expert on the Future Workplace & Founder of TalentEgg.ca
At our Future Workplace breakfast event, Lauren delivered her new presentation: Millennials & The ‘Follow Your Passion’ Paradox. She shared some strategies for creating a future-ready workplace that empowers all generations to perform at their best. Lauren’s goal was to show that the millennial generation entering the workforce should be looked as an opportunity rather than a threat. She shared five characteristics for the follow-your-passion workplace:
- Autonomy: Control is more important than stability.
- Achievement: Millennials are the gamification generation. They respond really well to constantly knowing where they stand and when they’ll be rewarded.
- Innovation: We’ll see a shift from giant workforces to a hub-and-spoke model where the hub is strategy and the spokes are workers who come in and do specific jobs for specific periods of time.
- Authenticity: The motto of the modern workplace is ‘be real at the expense of being perfect.’
- Meaning: Make people feel important, help them understand how their work is important.
Jennifer Moss | Expert on Workplace Happiness & Canadian Business ‘Innovator of the Year’ 2016
Jennifer’s presentation focused on psychological fitness, the science behind happiness that drives higher productivity, results and engagement at work, and how organizations can help their teams change how they feel about work, for the better. Here’s the six key points:
- We have a negativity bias from an early state of human evolution and the need to be fearful of our surroundings. In the modern world, this creates stresses in various aspects of our lives.
- If people are engaged, they tend to love what they do. This changes the way that you feel while at work.
- Well-being at work reflects the PERMA model: Positive emotion, Engagement, Positive relationships, Meaning and Accomplishment.
- Happiness is contagious. People go out of their way to work more closely with people who are positive and engaging.
- We want to increase the happiness of our employees as a whole, both inside and out of the workplace.
- If we build up employees’ psychological fitness, they go home happier and come into their workplace happier and as a result, do better work.
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