Growth Hacking Culture

In a recent KPMG research, CEOs claim that the lack of talent readiness in times of uncertainty is one the biggest risks to business growth. The COVID crisis has made it more evident that most leaders were not prepared to deal with the situation – specifically from the human side.
Through the pandemic:
CEOs believe that purpose is more relevant than ever.
Employees have started reconsidering their current career vs. more fulfilling paths
Corporate cultures have been shaken as they were not adapted to the needs of an organization in a turmoil of uncertainty.
In this episode of Learn With Bessern, we will deconstruct the changes in attitudes and beliefs of individuals and organizations during COVID and assess the options to thrive and generate optimal performance in this new world.
This episode is co-hosted by:
Nada Rashed
The HR Director for OneHealth (affiliate of AXA Group). Nada is an outstanding professional with more than 15 years of experience in market research and human resources in companies such as Nielsen, Heineken, Orange Business Services, British American Tobacco and Philip Morris. Due to her great belief in people and the power of human minds, She has also been working in the alternative medicine field for the past 17 years. She has helped several companies with their ongoing corporate transformation - developing tools and strategies that are people centric.
📖 Here is an interesting reading to complement this podcast on Giving Importance to Individual Purpose of Employees! https://www.bessern.co/post/giving-importance-to-individual-purpose-of-employees
 
 
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What is Emotional Intelligence? Emotional intelligence is most often defined as the ability to perceive, use, understand, manage, and handle emotions. Emotional Intelligence has always been an important factor in determining an employee’s mental well-being and their efficiency to work. 
The way we communicate is one of the determiners of a person’s EQ but in a world affected by covid-19 and remote work becoming the best way to ensure the safety of all, communicating through electronic medium and the loss of physical touch to teams, can EQ help employees to still be effective at work?
🌟 Can Emotional Intelligence help employees in coming up with new culture at the workplace? Well, all the answer to these questions will tend to change with different perspectives but is there an actual impact EQ can make?
 
This episode of Learn with Bessern is about putting forward a set of perspectives to these questions and help employees in understanding themselves better.
📖 Here is an interesting reading to complement this podcast 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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During COVID times - one of the biggest catalyst for change in organizations has been the people behind Human Resources. But things have been piling up on the desks of HR: day to day processes, culture change at work, well-being of employees, digitalization projects, etc. Many agree that the department is the one having the biggest disruption during these times.
It is time to ask ourselves:
➡️ Who is taking care of HR when HR is taking care of others?
➡️ How can they have the mental resilience to cope with the tsunami of changes, the amount of work and make the department a key stakeholder in times of transformation?
During this podcast we cover:
- The HR shift in organizations: from guardian of processes to human empowerment
- The 3 top resources for HR in times of change: Resilience, Growth Mindset and Empathy
- The 3 top HR disruptions to embrace the future with confidence
- The strategic future of HR: Company Purpose, People Empowerment and culture game changer.
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📖 Here is an interesting reading to complement this podcast on Giving Importance to Individual Purpose of Employees!
 
This episode is hosted by Fernanda Martinez,  Elena Agaragimova and Ivan Palomino
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What is failure? Failure can be defined as the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective and may be viewed as the opposite of success. Whereas failure seems to be like a negative term, it brings out several positive impacts on an individual. Every person and organization who is successful today, has seen failure at some point of time in the past.
Failure shouldn’t be seen as an end to your efforts but an area you need to focus and work on.
Failure teaches us about the do’s and don’ts. Failure is just a steppingstone towards success. In fact, failure can be the best teacher one can ask for. So all we need is to stop failure from stopping us to pursue our goals but instead learn from their failures, turn it to our advantage and constantly keep trying no matter how many times we fail just like the famous saying by Richard Branson – Head and Founder of Virgin Group.
“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”
📖 Here is an interesting reading to complement this podcast on Why people cannot Thrive without Psychological Safety
 
This episode is hosted by Elena Agaragimova and Ivan Palomino. 
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What is well-being? There are various criteria of wellbeing: mental, physical, emotional, career, social .etc. all of which are necessary for the fulfillment of needs of employees.
Organizational Wellbeing is driven by acting on our human needs (Maslow):
☑️ Self-actualization –realization of a person’s potential
☑️ Esteem –approval, respect, and recognition
☑️ Belonging –acceptance, affiliation, and affection
☑️ Safety –security, stability, and freedom from fear
☑️ Physiological needs –food, shelter, and water.
These needs go well beyond the association of wellbeing with stress and burnout - that are the natural consequences or symptoms of inefficient support of these individual needs.
More importantly, employees need to feel happy and satisfied with their jobs if they want to make their mental health a priority because both are indirectly linked to each other.
 
📖 Here is an interesting reading to complement this podcast on The Origin of Burnout: Is it me or is it my work culture
 
 
This episode is hosted by Elena Agaragimova and Ivan Palomino. 
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Everyone wants to be happy but most of us cannot answer to the simple question, why are we unhappy? Many people try doing things differently or believe certain things like landing a better, high paid job will make us happy, but it still does not. In this episode of Learn with Bessern, we will be talking about how happiness is affected through our perceptions, our behavior and our brain.
Our guest speaker Dr. Louise Lambert will help us uncover the truth from a scientific perspective on happiness and demystify common beliefs about what it is and what it is not. In general, happiness is understood as the positive emotions we have in regards to the pleasurable activities we take part in through our daily lives. Pleasure, comfort, gratitude, hope, and inspiration are examples of positive emotions that increase our happiness and move us to flourish. 
About Dr. Louise Lambert: Based in Dubai, She is a Canadian registered psychologist who develops, delivers, and evaluates positive psychology & positive education intervention programs for organizations and schools across the GCC region. She has several peer-reviewed publications, some of which have been featured in recent RAND Corporation and World Happiness Reports (2019). Her research areas include culture and happiness, the development of character strengths for greater PISA scores and employment outcomes for youth, as well as the use of positive psychology for greater subjective wellbeing in the workplace. Since 2015, Dr. Louise has been the Editor of the Middle East Journal of Positive Psychology. She is also the author of the first regional textbook in positive psychology (Springer, 2019), and general psychology (Cambridge, 2018).
How to reach her out: at Happiness Matters or in LinkedIn
📖 Here is an interesting reading to complement this podcast on The financial impact of happiness in an organisation
 
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How has 'coming back to the office' affected people after having worked from home for months? 🙋🏻 The varied preferences of people regarding working from home, at office, juggling between the two should be considered to ensure better work environments. The opportunity cost of not paying office rent and travel cost has put the efficiency of the workforce at stake by exhausting them through long hours on zoom. The risk of a new wave of anxiety and burnout in the workforce is high... and organization will have to develop flexible and creative processes for the new way of working.
Employers have to take into consideration the benefit of flexible working conditions and employees mental health and well-being.
Managers have to take into consideration the pros and cons of working from home as well as and create exclusive working conditions for employees to feel comfortable while working.
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📖 Here is an interesting video to complement this podcast on New ways of working: The dos and don’ts to implement your organization strategy with Angelique Slob (an Organizational Sociologist, HR thought leader and founder of the international Think Tank Hello Monday Club
This episode is hosted by Elena Agaragimova and Ivan Palomino. 
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Technology is accelerating the transformation of jobs: some will be inexistent in 5 years and new ones will be created. Beyond the skills that are more contextual to businesses: critical thinking, creativity, agility, continuous learning - human skills have come up to the ranking: the ones that are related to self-management such as mental capacity, stress management, resilience. These have become essential to thrive in a world where adapting to a continuously changing world is paramount to the survival of organizations and to make individuals fulfill their potential. 
 
📖 Here is an interesting reading to complement this podcast on Lifelong Learning Skills You Should Build Today at Work
 
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Our impressive guest speaker in this episode is John Sanei - He is going to take us through ten things we can do to develop foresight from where we are.
+ Understand the moment and prepare for life as you now know it to be.
+ Focus your energy on what you want.
+ Follow your curiosity and find your wisdom.
The unprecedented global crisis has been an opportunity to prepare ourselves for the collective future we want. Now is the time to invent new ways to add value to a world in desperate need of help. This may mean that we need to start again and reimagine our purpose. Who knows, we may well like the new story better.
 
About our guest: John Sanei (Sah-nay) is a Knowledge Mercenary who travels the globe to uncover the lessons needed to uplift communities and help humanity thrive. His unlimited fascination with the future has seen him become Africa’s first faculty member at Singularity University in San Francisco, a lecturer at Duke Corporate Education in Johannesburg, and a Partner Associate at the Copenhagen Institute of Future Studies in Denmark. Author of best-sellers such as FutureNext,  What’s Your Moonshot?, Magnetiize and FOREsight, John is also the Co-founder and Chief Exponential Officer at Future Self Academy, an author-led, online platform that connectors the curious to leading thinkers. Despite this success, John still freely shares his passion and excitement through his signature videos – find him online and start upgrading your perspective.
 
This episode is hosted by Elena Agaragimova 
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Awareness about the impact of stress at work has become one of the most important topic of discussions among corporations today. Despite campaigns and talks about its impact (physical, mental and financial); not enough progress has materialized. - The level of stress has skyrocketed comparing the pre-COVID period vs. today - Still today, many employees feel that it is not a good idea to voice over concerns on stress at work: half of employees fear negative consequences such as being denied a raise or promotion. If your company is not doing enough: speak up!
Start doing your own actions for you and others to pro-actively self-care: listen to some actionable points to take control of your levels of anxiety at work: Experiment what could work for you: mindfulness, setting boundaries, venting your stress, no-meeting day, going for a jog, meeting a friend, doing something new, anything that makes you feel good.
Final tip, get a process to manage your stress by practicing habit formation.
 
📖 Here is an interesting reading to complement this podcast on Understanding the root cause of of burnout at work
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This episode is hosted by Elena Agaragimova and Ivan Palomino. 
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It is not easy to compete in the modern marketplace. Standing out amongst growing competition, surviving salary cuts and tending with the forces of digitalization are critical challenges. Most professionals are aware that differentiation is key to survival, but very few are able to differentiate successfully in practice. In this webinar, we were joined by a guest speaker:
Samuel Salzer, who will discuss with us how do we actually create habits to help us build thriving organizations and foster mental well-being.
Some of the topics covered:
- What is the current situation of employees in corporate? What is in the CEO agenda or the organization?
- Working from home? Enhance productivity and wellbeing during crisis
- What are we doing right or wrong to deal with performance and wellbeing? - What can we learn from the way the brain works to increase chances of success?
About our Learn With Bessern Guest: Samuel Salzer is a leading behavioral strategist and habit expert, having worked with organizations across Europe, Australia, and North America. Among other things, he's one of the world's first Chief Behavioral Officer (CBO) in tech, and he specializes in applying insights from behavioral science and behavioral economics to build user-centered and habit-forming products and services. At the forefront of the emerging field of Behavioral Design, Samuel is a frequent keynote speaker, curates the popular newsletter Habit Weekly, and has co-authored “Nudging in practice - Helping organizations make it easy to do the right thing.” The book offers a comprehensive guide to organizations interested in understanding and systematically utilizing behavioral insights.
This episode is hosted by Elena Agaragimova and Ivan Palomino. 
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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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