TWEP - Episode 16 - How The Office Can Transform One Dimensional Thinking

The Workplace Experience

In this episode I want to focus on how we can get the workplace to transform post pandemic one dimensional thinking into having three dimensional doers back and engaged not just at work but in society.
Are you wondering were common sense has gone. Where the finishers have gone, the people that physically finish a the project, task or activity they started. Its not just management wondering about this, it is your peers and collogues as well.
Where has the thought process come from that your just making up the numbers. That your output is not critically important to your team and your organisation. It doesnt matter if your an individual contributor or senior manager. In 2024 needs to be the year the make this right.
Are you aware of what is happening around you? Sorry to say it but so many people have seem to have lost this three dimensional thinking in many facets of their lives.
Many people blame the workplace for one dimensional thinking, in some cases this contributes to this problem. It's important that the workplace has a variety of settings. Places that allow focus work, places that allow collaboration, places that allow consideration.
Don’t underestimate the need to have time for quiet and thoughtful consideration.
The workplace needs to be flexible, where people are educated and understand the best locations to do a specific tasks, thinking locations, doing locations, sharing locations.
The outcomes of the consideration thinking and how it is shared is also important, no one person has all the answers.
It is concerning that since the pandemic we appear to have lost the understanding of the importance of people working in a team and developing real business relationships which are formed by a personal connection and consideration between people.
Having a 100% virtual relationship does not create that connection.
A person who you know only virtually often sees people consider that person more like a commodity not a real person with heart beat, feelings and real ability.
It also has an impact on peoples three dimensional thinking , on the quality of our decisions and what impact our decisions have on our peers, management and our employer.
This also applies to our employers and senior leadership and their decisions have on their employees. It’s a two way street.
No matter if you’re a individual contributor or in a management position, people need to be protected from themselves not thinking three dimensionally when making decisions. People tend to make bad decisions when left to their own devices.
When I was flying out of Melbourne at the end of last week, I looked across the tarmac to see an Air New Zealand aircraft, a new, bright and shining aircraft - an airline predominately government owned. Reinvestment and business development is not completing as aggressively with delivering shareholder returns.
You compare that to embattled Spirit of Australia, which has been raped and pillaged for over a decade in the interest of the shareholder and the shareholder returns. There is little or no meat left on the bones, of the flying skeleton.
It's time for organisations to put their people In front of shareholders.
This issue of return on investment also applies to government at all levels local, state and federal government. Don't let your strategic thinking be influenced by click bait articles or social media posts from world experts.
The world experts are predominately one dimensional thinkers with no morale compass or expertise. Its all about the now. They have no idea on how a functional workplace and an engaging environment improves collaboration, productivity, staff retention and better value for money for rate or tax&