Yes, it is time for us to move on, as individuals and as organizations, AND that calls for a focus on constructive, honest, awareness-building dialogues about meaning, well-being and what we have learned from Covid-19.
Almost two years with Covid-19, turbulence and extraordinary challenges have left their mark. Indeed, many of the executives and employees I meet speak of a certain fatigue – a natural consequence of fighting long and hard to deal with workdays steeped in uncertainty and unpredictability.
At one of my recent talks, one of the participants offered this very apt summary of the experience:
‘What we yearn for most of all right now is to have more in-person “good mornings” and more natural, spontaneous appreciation.’
This feeling is only natural. After all, we are not robots (fortunately!) but human beings of flesh and blood, and we naturally affected when we feel our energy stores becoming depleted. Of course, this is an issue we need to take seriously, as organizations, managers, executives and employees.
Time for well-being, meaning and job satisfaction
Fortunately, we are now seeing the Covid-19 fog lifting, and as individuals and organizations, we are in a position to be curious about what we can do, as individuals and together, in order to prioritize an energizing working environment and move away from exhaustion, fatigue and depletion.
I address this in more detail in my latest blog post.
In this blog post I also discuss some of the most important issues for employees, leaders and organizations to focus on, according to neuroscience and the science of well-being. Based on what these fields can tell us, I outline four pieces of advice to help you build an everyday life that is focused on well-being, meaning and job satisfaction in the ‘new’ post-Covid reality that awaits us.
Are you ready for take-off?
I hope you will find the blog interesting.
If you do, maybe you and your colleagues would like to hear more about the trend ‘from organization to organism’ that I describe in my book The Fruit Tree Strategy and in my talk ‘The Organization That Took Off and Became a Murmuration … or The Day Co-Creation Grew Wings and Flew Into the Future’. In this talk I outline a common frame of reference based on research and experience and present insights that leaders and employees can use to create greater well-being and job satisfaction together – and pave the way for tomorrow’s increasingly self-organized and self-managing organization, which moves almost intuitively, as a single field driven by an underlying joint, conscious focus on maintaining constant human and meaningful resonance with the core task until we reach a point where we move almost without thinking as we simply are, do and give what provides lift for our wings.
Read the blog post here:
With the best wishes for a beautiful, life-giving spring!
Many sunny regards,
Helen
Helen Eriksen
www.heleneriksen.com
