SUMMARY:
What is the current state of working together? How can leaders compassionately and effectively help their employees work at a more sane—and effective—pace? As people start to return to a physical office space, leaders need tools to help employees thrive and establish healthier work cultures. In this episode, author and productivity expert, Juliet Funt, talks with Jason Jaggard about breaking out of the cycle of complacency and rewriting norms around waste, burnout and communication.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
EMPLOYEES ARE TIRED: The last season of working from home has pushed employees to exhaustion. Businesses need to find ways to help people recuperate.
SYMPTOMS OF BURNOUT: We start out wanting to be stellar workers, but when the sprint becomes a marathon, you can get stuck at the pace at which you’re working, and you may need help to “un-write” the “new normal”.
LEADERSHIP ANXIETY: It’s easy for leaders to become suspicious that remote people aren’t working enough. Actually, the problem isn’t that they’re not working; it’s that they aren’t living.
RETURNING TO THE OFFICE: Leaders will need to think carefully about integrating people who work from home and those who work from the office.
CYCLE OF COMPLACENCY: A typical company wastes $1 million for every 50 people in an organization. Companies need to hit some kind of “rock bottom” before they choose to address systems (email, meetings, etc.) that encourage waste.
PRO TIP–THE “YELLOW LIST”: When you have an urge to communicate with a person, you write the subject down on your yellow list for a particular person. When you have a few items on that list, you send items on the list to that person, speeding up email communication and making it more efficient.
THE “FLEX TIME TRAP”: It’s not enough to just give people “flex time” (or flexible hours); the other half of flex time is stopping to recuperate.
SYNCHRONIZED WORK, SYNCHRONIZED REST: Organizationally make agreements in your company for when people can be “off”.
TRAP YOURSELF IN A PROMISE. When you want work to be over, tell someone out loud, “Well, I’m done for the day.”
TIPS ABOUT RETURNING TO WORK:
- Take “White Space” between every meeting
- Use the W.A.I.T. technique for email (Whose Action Is This?)
PHONE NARRATION: If you must pick up your phone in a meeting, don’t just “drift” into your phone. Tell people where you’ve gone and when you’ll be back. “This is what I’m doing, and this is how long it will take.”
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CultureLeading OrganizationsWhat is the current state of working together? How can leaders compassionately and effectively help their employees work at a more sane—and effective—pace? As people start to return to a physical office space, leaders need tools to help employees thrive and establish healthier work cultures. In this episode, author and productivity expert, Juliet Funt, talks with Jason Jaggard about breaking out of the cycle of complacency and rewriting norms around waste, burnout and communication.
On This Podcast
Juliet Funt
Juliet Funt Group
Juliet Funt is the CEO and founder of Juliet Funt Group, a training and consulting firm helping organizations, their leaders and employees reclaim their creativity, productivity and engagement. With thought-provoking insights and actionable tools, she has become a globally-recognized expert in helping leaders cope with the “age of overload” in which we all live and work. A warrior against reactive busyness and a force for change in organizations around the world, Funt teaches a streamlined method for personal process improvement that reduces complexity in the workplace. Teams that incorporate a WhiteSpace mindset and skill set increase creativity and engagement, reclaim lost capacity and execute at their finest. Her clients include a number of Fortune 100 companies and span a wide array of industries, from financial services to technology, manufacturing to the military. Funt’s new book, A Minute to Think, released at the 2021 Summit.
Jason Jaggard
Novus Global
Jason Jaggard is an entrepreneur, author, executive coach and speaker. His work has been translated into over 50 languages and has been featured in Fast Company, Forbes, Entrepreneur and Chief Executive Magazine. He is the founder of Novus Global, an executive coaching firm working with Fortune 500 companies, professional athletes, elected officials and some of the most famous entertainers on earth. He also co-founded and is on the faculty of The Meta Performance Institute, which helps coaches create six figure practices serving high performing leaders and teams. His next book, Beyond High Performance: What Great Coaches Know about How the Best Get Better is out this May, 2023.
Ashlyn Ochoa
The Global Leadership Podcast
Ashlyn Ochoa has served in a variety of roles at the Global Leadership Network since 2016. The product of her talented work, strategic creativity, and valuable leadership has been experienced in the production of The Global Leadership Podcast, as well as many of the GLN’s leadership events and videos that have been translated and contextualized in more than 123 countries. As a valuable leader with a voice of positive influence, she is the host of The Global Leadership Podcast, one of the most popular leadership podcasts in the world. As of 2022, in addition to hosting the podcast, Ashlyn leads national event strategy and production at Bethany Christian Services, where she works in her passion to serve children and families. Beyond her professional roles, her greatest joy is found in being a wife and mom. Experience her positive energy, inquisitive mind, and wisdom as you tune in to The Global Leadership Podcast!
Show Notes
SUMMARY:
What is the current state of working together? How can leaders compassionately and effectively help their employees work at a more sane—and effective—pace? As people start to return to a physical office space, leaders need tools to help employees thrive and establish healthier work cultures. In this episode, author and productivity expert, Juliet Funt, talks with Jason Jaggard about breaking out of the cycle of complacency and rewriting norms around waste, burnout and communication.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
EMPLOYEES ARE TIRED: The last season of working from home has pushed employees to exhaustion. Businesses need to find ways to help people recuperate.
SYMPTOMS OF BURNOUT: We start out wanting to be stellar workers, but when the sprint becomes a marathon, you can get stuck at the pace at which you’re working, and you may need help to “un-write” the “new normal”.
LEADERSHIP ANXIETY: It’s easy for leaders to become suspicious that remote people aren’t working enough. Actually, the problem isn’t that they’re not working; it’s that they aren’t living.
RETURNING TO THE OFFICE: Leaders will need to think carefully about integrating people who work from home and those who work from the office.
CYCLE OF COMPLACENCY: A typical company wastes $1 million for every 50 people in an organization. Companies need to hit some kind of “rock bottom” before they choose to address systems (email, meetings, etc.) that encourage waste.
PRO TIP–THE “YELLOW LIST”: When you have an urge to communicate with a person, you write the subject down on your yellow list for a particular person. When you have a few items on that list, you send items on the list to that person, speeding up email communication and making it more efficient.
THE “FLEX TIME TRAP”: It’s not enough to just give people “flex time” (or flexible hours); the other half of flex time is stopping to recuperate.
SYNCHRONIZED WORK, SYNCHRONIZED REST: Organizationally make agreements in your company for when people can be “off”.
TRAP YOURSELF IN A PROMISE. When you want work to be over, tell someone out loud, “Well, I’m done for the day.”
TIPS ABOUT RETURNING TO WORK:
PHONE NARRATION: If you must pick up your phone in a meeting, don’t just “drift” into your phone. Tell people where you’ve gone and when you’ll be back. “This is what I’m doing, and this is how long it will take.”
Use your exclusive listener code for a special discount on your ticket to The Global Leadership Summit on August 5-6, 2021: PODCAST21
RELATED LINKS:
Global Leadership Network
The Global Leadership Summit
Juliet Funt
A Minute to Think: Reclaim Creativity, Conquer Busyness, and Do Your Best Work
Jason Jaggard
Novus Global
Monster.com survey
Keb Mo’
Stelis BioSource
Michael Hyatt & Company: Company Benefits
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