Building Team Culture Amidst Workplace Change

For the last few years, you may have heard buzzwords like workplace culture, flexibility and work-life balance. Northeast Iowa Community College Business and Community Solutions is here with customized training to help local businesses prepare for these workplace shifts.

WORKPLACE TRENDS

Dan Schawbel has produced a list of workplace trends for the past nine years. Here are his 2022 predictions.

• Career development and training come into the spotlight.

• Companies allowing employees to choose where and when they work.

• A two-tiered workforce. This could cause a cultural shift, take action now to make employees feel equally treated and needed.

• A fight to attract and retain talent. The meaning of success has changed and employees are now prioritizing work-life balance, brain health and having a meaningful job.

• Benefits will better meet employee needs.

• Organizations and employees will prioritize new skills. It’s estimated that 40 percent of workers will require upskilling by 2025. Skills needed will include digital, emotional intelligence, managing teams and effective communication.

Read the full article: www.linkedin.com/pulse/top-10-workplacetrends-2022-dan-schawbel/

THE NEW WORKPLACE SCHEDULE

COVID-19 has opened the door for conversations about remote work, hybrid scheduling and four-day workweeks. The Hustle recently looked into an initiative by Cali Ressler called Results Only Work Environment (ROWE). ROWE focuses on forgetting about time and place and just emphasizing assignment completion. Ressler began her initiative with Best Buy and saw productivity increase by 41 percent and employee turnover reduced. The University of Minnesota’s Phyllis Moen showed Best Buy workers slept more, were less likely to come to work sick and experienced a reduction in work-family conflicts.*

The concept that not one-size fits all is also growing. According to a survey from the staffing agency Robert Half, 41 percent of managers in the U.S. are allowing staff to choose their work hours.** The mindset of working 50-plus hours a week as a power move is going to be a thing of the past. Never taking PTO, coming in early, staying late, not taking lunch breaks were bragging points to how dedicated you were to your job and how hard of a worker you are. According to SHRM®, Millennials have pushed for policies that create a more employee-centered workplace benefiting people of all ages. Paid parental leave, diversity programs, brain health benefits and corporate responsibility efforts, for example, have expanded as companies fight to attract and retain members of this coveted group. Morning Brew showed that both Millennials and Gen Z are also seeking a workplace that offers opportunities for career advancement.

NICC has recently offered flexible work scheduling for employees on a trial basis. This option allows some employees the opportunity to work remotely at times and choose their work hours based on business needs.

WORKPLACE CULTURE

Harvard Division of Continuing Education states companies at the top of Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work foster a culture that inspires innovation, dedication and enthusiasm among employees. Workplace culture can include workplace relationships, communication or teamwork, etc.

If you are looking to see how employees view the culture of your organization, try sending out a survey. It is important to not only listen to the feedback provided but act on it as well. Google Forms is a great way to send out a survey and allow employees to respond anonymously. *the hustle.co ** Harvard Business Review

WANT CUSTOMIZED TRAINING FOR YOUR WORKPLACE?

Contact Greg to set up training unique to your company.

Greg Willging

willgingg@nicc.edu phone

844.642.2338, ext. 3128

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