Future of Work Conversations

Be Confident recently brought together this expert panel with digital innovators at Datacom, the human resource view from Mel Rowsell @ Wisdom at Work and our Workfutures perspective on how we need to Refactor the way we work. See our videos of the “Live debate series” from MBIE’s Techweek  as we challenge the best ways to enable teams to work remotely & quickly regain productivity and competitiveness

Refactoring the way we work - ideas and innovations to boost the engagement and effectiveness of your hybrid teams.

What is challenging your team's ability to adapt to remote working? What are the pitfalls? This shift has placed greater importance on evolving our techniques to support hybrid teaming to break down silos and strengthen cross-functional innovation.

Starting with retaining engagement levels and considering the benefits of building social capital in the office contrasted with the advantages of working from home.

 

Retaining Engagement

Is the extra engagement from remote work/life balance more valued than office culture?

Next we consider how we build productivity with teams distributed across multiple locations. Looking behind the research findings to understanding the impacts on productivity.

 

Building Productivity

Are teams getting more done working remotely?

Considering the way we have responded in a crisis what have we learned about self-leadership and the need for clear direction ?

Maximising Self-leadership

Does self-leadership trump being led by others when remote?

 

Next we debate open plan working and the concepts of teams colocating , activity-based working , agile working and what shifts when we spend so much time online.

Co-locating shifts to Connectivity-Based-Working

Does co-locating teams in groups provide faster outcomes than allowing teams choice of where they work?

Our 5th and final debate looks into the question of whether we can innovate, ideate and generate new ideas well when forced to work online and how this compares to working face to face.

 

Quality Ideation

Is quality ideation best done in a face to face environment?