Growth Hacking Culture

The world of work has seen a shift in different areas of work in recent years - from corporates caring about wellbeing at work, to remote work and challenges & opportunities that came along to how we, as leaders & organizations, see the future of the workplace in general. In this insightful conversation with Ben Eubanks - speaker, author, and researcher, specializing in the field of human resources and workforce of the future - we sit down to discuss lessons learned from the pandemic, how we can make the workplace more human, how technology can help us makes it more accessible and affordable for us to learn in organizations, as well as how micro learnings are leading the way when it comes to upskilling an organization. 
 
About Ben Eubanks: He is a speaker, author, and researcher living in Huntsville, Alabama. Ben is the Chief Research Officer at Lighthouse Research & Advisory and the author of Artificial Intelligence for HR: Use AI to Build a Successful Workforce. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Business Insider, SHRM, HR Executive, and other influential outlets.
 
📖 Here is an interesting reading to complement this podcast on 4 cultural pillars for creating awesome organizations 
 
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In this episode of Learn with Bessern - we discuss on the value of creating trust and go beyond sympathy and assertiveness.
It is nice to be liked. It is our human nature to want to belong and be accepted. It would be awesome to be liked and respected as a leader, but more often than not this is not the case.  
We hear this saying a lot - don’t be liked, be respected – but it has different meanings depending on the context. There are leaders who use it as an excuse to be just awful and rude. That is not the aim here. From our side, what it means is that sometimes you will have to do things that people might not like, but if you truly believe it is the best course of action then you cannot worry about being disliked as a result of the decision.  
Being respected when you grow too fast can be challenging because your once colleagues are now reporting to you – that alone can cause friction and interpersonal conflicts. On top of that, if you are the type of leader who is looking to create change in an organization, you are going to make many people uncomfortable and surely you will not always be liked.  
📖 Here is an interesting reading to complement this podcast on the Steps To Motivate Your Employees  https://www.bessern.co/post/10-easy-steps-to-motivate-your-employees-in-2022 
 
🎙️ This episode is hosted by Elena Agaragimova and Ivan Palomino.
 
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One of the challenges corporations have experienced is that since individuals have increasingly joined online meetings, trainings and projects discussion - employees frequently have numerous interruptions and distractions, keeping them from being completely present and focused in their online interaction. In this episode of #LearnWithBessern, we talk about how organizations can facilitate seamless and effective online interactions. What do we take into consideration to do better online trainings?
 
📖 Here is an interesting reading to complement this podcast on How to design a affective remote training approach at work
 
🏆 Do you want to learn about the Simply Human! Awards ✨ ? a platform to recognize HR professionals making an impact on Humans in their Organizations. Nominations are open!
 
 
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Confidence is based on decisions and achievements that feed your passion and that cause you to feel cheerful and at ease with what your identity is. 🔎 Finding these elements of confidence is perhaps the most beneficial quest for you life.
🧠 Research shows that a regular practice of rituals and habits — like surrounding ourselves with people who believe in us, or celebrating even our smallest of wins — can help us feel more self-assured over time. It can also be helpful to build a toolbox of strategies to implement on the days where confidence-boosting doesn’t feel so intuitive.
We have to learn to embrace ourselves without comparing ourselves with others. We are unique and different in our own ways and when we stop comparing our self to other people we feel more confident. In return our self- esteem also rises.
Lastly, we must accept change around us and learn to adapt to it. If we do this at our own pace we will be at ease and feel more confident.
 
Here is a recommended interesting reading on How to start a Positive Self-Talk Habit
 
 
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Being a manager in times of uncertainty and massive changes in the way we work - It is a true challenge for newly appointed managers. The initial days are critical to define the culture you want to instill in your team as well as build relationships with them on a personal level. 
The most important aspects to start working on are:
➡️ Build trust with the team
➡️ Understand the level of collaboration in the team
➡️ Collect the team's expectations
Accelerating the human connection from the start can give you an edge to create a thriving team. However to build this efforts must be taken from the very first day itself. Once team members feel like they re part of a team or family productivity and progress grow on a large scale.
 
Interesting reading on How Leaders can start Well-Being by example - showing actions not intentions
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Emotional intelligence comes up – over and over again across various future of work and skills reports - as a critical skill for leaders to possess in order to be successful in the workplace. While technology will continue to transform the way we work, skills such as emotional intelligence will never go out of style.
In this episode we focus on the growing areas of emotional intelligence such as Self-Awareness, Empathy, Connecting with others and developing Agility. 
➡️  Here is an interesting reading on How Emotional Intelligence is shaping the future of leadership https://www.bessern.co/post/how-emotional-intelligence-is-shaping-the-future-of-leadership
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What are the most needed skills needed today at work? 🤔 In a world of constant change and accelerated reinvention due to COVID - we see new imperatives rising in organizations:
➡️ Continuous learning has become a new competitive advantage
➡️ The wellbeing of employees has supported their performance
➡️ Humans are extremely resilient despite uncertainty and setbacks during this crisis, we have proof that when the time is urgent and the mission is clear - we can do amazing things 👏 Preparing a bright future will depend on the choice of skills that organizations put on their priority list ✔️
Interesting reading on Lifelong Learning Skills You Should Build Today https://www.bessern.co/post/10-lifelong-learning-skills-you-should-build-today 
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In this episode about Burnout at Work, we are answering some of the important questions: 
What are the root causes of Burnout and how corporate culture can affect individual wellbeing?
How can corporate redesign their culture with actions that are impactful, meaningful and somehow effortless.
While many managers think they understand burnout, the reality is the concept is not so simple, and solutions are often complicated. While employees can feel burnout due to several work-related reasons—too much stress, ineffective communication, unreasonable workloads—there are plenty of other reasons employees might feel bogged down. If team leaders want to combat burnout effectively, they need to identify the root cause and help their employees address it. Sometimes burnout can be traced back to a lack of support—formal or informal.
Sometimes employees feel like they don’t have the tools necessary to do their jobs well, which can often be remedied with better training. There’s also burnout related to a lack of significance and function—employees feel like their jobs don’t matter, or they don’t understand how what they do fits into the big picture.
In order to avoid all of this it is very important for managers to build good relations with the employees and further take into consideration their mental well-being as well.
 
📖 Here is an interesting reading to complement this podcast on Understanding the root cause of of burnout at work
🏆 Do you want to learn about the Simply Human! Awards ✨ ? a platform to recognize HR professionals making an impact on Humans in their Organizations. Nominations are open!
 
 
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Do "SMART" goals work for everyone? What challenges do we face when setting goals based on the "SMART" method. How can we change the way we set your goals?
Taking into account uncertainty, motivation and need to continuously reinvent solutions in a VUCA world. In this episode we assess OKR (Objectives & Key Results) as a dynamic approach to get focus on solutions instead of being fixated in a number.
What makes more sense according to you managing a purpose or managing a specifc goal?
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Social distancing has affected our lives in many ways; especially our work lives. Most of us are still working remotely, working from home and online. We spend hours in front of our laptops with back to back online meetings because we can fit so much more in our days because meetings are just a few clicks away. This is taking a big mental toll on most of us:
For some, producing social anxiety due to public speaking
We get more tired as the cognitive load is much higher in video chats: in regular face-to-face interactions, nonverbal communication is quite natural and each of us naturally makes and interprets gestures and nonverbal cues subconsciously. But in video chats, we have to work harder to send and receive signals to our brain.
 
🚀 In this episode of the Learn with Bessern Podcast, we take a review on what we can do to easily recover after all theses back to back online sessions.
 
Here is our recommended article on Achieving Work-life balance & Make It A Productivity Booster:
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This episode is hosted by Elena Agaragimova and Ivan Palomino. 
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