The Benefits of Being Ahead of Your Time

 

I’m sometimes told I’m ahead of my time with my mindset-shifting approach to

lifestyle management. The successful workplace of the future will have managers

respecting staff not just as workers but as 24/7 human beings, who work best

when they are encouraged to enjoy a harmonious mix of energising work and personal life

interests and goals. This will be essential to:

·         Attract and keep skilled staff

·         Retain access to the skills and experience of mature staff

·         Maintain high workplace productivity and staff commitment

·         Foster a happy and attractive working environment, and

·         (the bottom line) maximize profitability

 

I take this as a compliment. It means I’m getting in on the ground floor of addressing

the rapidly rising wave of concern about  an ageing workforce, resultant skilled staff

shortages, burnout due to prolonged excessive stress and the growing reluctance to

work for perceived uncaring managers.

 

There are organizations that make things happen, those who watch things happen and

those who wonder what happened. On the issue of building this sort of workplace culture,

into which group does your organization fall? Many will mouth they are in the first group,

but most are actually very much still in the second.

 

I like to think now is a good time to be ahead of your time.   Those who don’t will wonder

what happened when they find they lost all their best people to organizations that did make it happen.

-                      Peter Nicholls

        This message may be freely distributed to staff, colleagues and friends

 

Peter Nicholls

Director, Work Leisure International

Next Webinar: SIZZLE OR FIZZLE? Life Planning for People over 50.

Click here for details.

Webinar participants can have the fee taken off their registration for

the Sept 10 "Maturing Beats Retiring"  - a Retirement Planning Workshop for

businesspeople who don’t want to retire

23A Tarlton Street Somerton Park SA 5044 Australia

Phone: 61 8 8295 2679; mob: 0417 817 027

email: peter@workleisure.com web: www.workleisure.com ; Skype workleisure

 

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