Growth Hacking Culture

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