Growth Hacking Culture

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
https://www.bessern.co/post/how-leaders-can-start-well-being-by-example-showing-actions-not-intentions 
This episode is hosted by Elena Agaragimova and Ivan Palomino. 
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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
This episode is hosted by Elena Agaragimova and Ivan Palomino. 
 
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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!
 
 
This episode is hosted by Elena Agaragimova and Ivan Palomino. 
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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?
This episode is hosted by Elena Agaragimova and Ivan Palomino. 
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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:
https://www.bessern.co/post/5-actions-to-achieve-a-work-life-balance-take-it-from-a-nice-to-have-to-a-productivity-booster 
 
This episode is hosted by Elena Agaragimova and Ivan Palomino. 
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Starting a wellbeing strategy at work is not a matter of cost, it is often a matter of eagerness to make it happen. Organizations have to start focusing on employees well-being and create opportunities for them to reveal their stress levels.
➡️ Encouraging new simple behaviors and reinventing a corporate culture having the employee' wellbeing at its core...
Some zero cost strategies that drive wellbeing impact on organizations:
- Leadership walking the talk on wellbeing practices
- Focus on personal development: create opportunities for employees for work on passion projects that are not related to their day job
- Encourage discussions around mental health and create an environment where employees feel safe to share and discuss.
Make leadership the catalyst for vulnerable discussion - leaders should be role modeling the behaviors you want for the organization.
 
💁‍♂️ Some extra resources:
Here is an interesting webinar with Elena Agaragimova and Ivan Palomino on Why mental wellbeing leads to productivity and creativity in a workplace?  https://youtu.be/aea0AQ7fsrA
Article on How Leaders can start Well-Being by example - showing actions not intentions https://www.bessern.co/post/how-leaders-can-start-well-being-by-example-showing-actions-not-intentions 
 

The focus on employee well-being has accelerated since COVID. Corporations are taking steps to find someone accountable on employee well-being. What are the skills required for this role?
This role should bring Leadership & Expertise on creating an efficient practice environment, cultivating personal resilience, and developing an organizational culture that fosters engagement and professional fulfillment.

When we speak about upskilling in organizations, the most used tool is the traditional training – which means passing on knowledge with an intense agenda for 1 or 2 days. Can we challenge traditional learning when we know how the brain processes information and converts it into behaviors?
 
How do we make learning stick and be practiced?
- Managing the attention windows: humans cannot provide attention for long periods of time
- People need time to generate their own insights
- Generating positive emotions helps anchor learning into the long term memory
- Spacing sessions helps learning stick
The Learn with Bessern Podcast is co-hosted by Elena Agaragimova and Ivan Palomino