Engaging the Workforce of the Future

Engaging the Workforce of the Future Achieving excellence through change.

January 12, 2023 Jerry Weisenfelder, President and CEO RLG

At RLG, we have:

40 years in practice over

4000 engagements to accelerate improvement 250 clients across 30 different industries, and 40 different countries

served over

130 performance improvement specialists on staff averaged an

8:1 return on investment for our clients

Leaders Perspectives “I know that there will be a lot of change that we will go through, and I am worried about my team being burned out .”

“I don’t think our senior leaders in the workforce know how to really communicate and connect with the younger generation.”

“How do we get the workforce to be interested every day in how to improve, not just when there is some expensive consultant on the site?”

Source: Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know, Adam M. Grant,

“Our past success and working as a high performing team has gone away…how do we make that sustainable?.”

“The amount changes our organization needs to go through in the future will continue to increase, not decrease.”

Engaging the Workforce of the Future.

1. The global workforce is changing.

2. The market is requiring companies to improve and adapt.

What will it take to continue to effectively execute changes and deliver improvements?

Talent and an Evolving Workforce “The workplace is about to change. …about 61 million individuals born between 1996 and 2010, are about to enter the workforce and bring with them completely different priorities, values and needs.

In order to accept this new generation of workers, companies need to prepare by taking action now...”

Source:https://www.forbes.com/sites/ashleystahl/2019/09/10/how-generation-z-will-revolutionize-the-workplace

A Culture of “Scientists” and Learners “When we’re in scientist mode, we refuse to let our ideas become ideologies. We don’t start with answers or solutions; we lead with questions and puzzles. We don’t preach from intuition; we teach from evidence. We don’t just have healthy skepticism about other people’s arguments; we dare to disagree with our own arguments.”

Source: Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know, Adam M. Grant,

Acceleration of Knowledge “Big data is a combination of structured, semi structured and unstructured data collected by organizations that can be mined for information and used in machine learning projects, predictive modeling and other advanced analytics applications.”

Source: https://www.techtarget.com/searchdatamanagement/definition/big-data

Performance “Nano” Leadership “Information Age was formed by capitalizing on computer microminiaturization advances, which led to modernized information systems and internet communications as the driving force of social evolution.”

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Age

Readiness “We’ve been living through the greatest workplace disruption in generations and the level of volatility will not slow down in 2022. New Covid variants will continue to emerge and may cause workplaces to temporarily go remote again. Hybrid work will create more unevenness around where, when, and how much different employees are working. … …These realities will be layered on top of longerterm technological transformation,...”

Source: 11 Trends that Will Shape Work in 2022 and Beyond, Brian Kropp and Emily Rose McRae

Dr. Kotter’s 8 Steps for Leading Change

The Art of Change

The Discipline to Stay on Top There is confluence of change that is unavoidable.

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Professional

On the

Change Sports

There will be organizations that prosper.

Athlete

They will be the ones who have anticipated and have prepared.

Sidelines

Capability to change / improve

Effective Strategy / Market Position

These currents will have an impact on the performance of organizations across industries.

Basic beliefs about people.

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People want to do good work

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People want to know how they are doing

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Leaders have more impact than they realize.

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People closest to the work know how to improve

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People want to win.

Turning Loose

“Turning Loose” is all about setting people up to win.

It’s about a fundamental change in the way relationships are built. It’s a shift away from relationships based on position or fear to one based on respect and mutual trust.