Work

http://www.slideshare.net/Sheldrake/workfront-leap-may-2016 I’m in Orlando Florida this week with the Workfront team and their partners and customers for their annual Leap conference. It’s my privilege to participate in a panel session on the future of work, and to deliver a session with the more grounded title – making work suck less! As you can see from the stack here, the first too common affront I identify and tackle is what I generally call the ‘X steps to heaven’ crowd. Those authors and companies proffering clickbait that teases with some relatively short sequence of steps needed to take you from zero to hero – in this context, going from a dysfunctional to awesome organization. ...

Toward a Model of Work Redesign for Better Work and Better Life (PDF), abstract: Flexible work accommodations provided by employers purport to help individuals struggling to manage work and family demands. The underlying model for change is accommodation – helping individuals accommodate their work demands with no changes in the structure of work or cultural expectations of ideal workers. The purpose of this article is to derive a Work Redesign Model and compare it with the Accommodation Model. This article centers around two change initiatives – Predictability, Teaming and Open Communication and Results Only Work Environment – that alter the structure and culture of work in ways that enable better work and better lives. ...