![]() ![]() It’s the “if I can’t see them, how will I know they’re working?” mindset. There’s a long-standing myth that people aren’t productive when they’re working from home. How do our people have fun not just at work, but in doing the work? Are our people finding meaning and purpose in the work they do each day? These are the questions we need to be asking if we want to motivate our top people to stay. ![]() Now more than ever, we need to find ways to make sure the people we hire are in love with our business problem, not with our cutting-edge facilities and perks. Now that everyone’s logging in from home, leaders have to ask themselves what their employee value propositions truly are. Harness intrinsic motivation.įor years, the way to attract and retain talent in the tech world has often been through extrinsic motivators like bonuses, rewards, ping pong tables, snack rooms, and free lunch in the on-site gourmet cafeteria. Here are four ways for HR leaders to move beyond that initial crisis response, establish resilience, and build and maintain greater organizational agility to help us weather whatever’s coming next. The question before us now is how to shift to long-term thinking and keep our newly remote workforces engaged and aligned around the work that matters most to our organizations. Writing in Harvard Business Review, Lindsay McGregor and Neel Doshi stated, “During crises such as Covid-19, people often tend to focus more on tactical work-answering the right number of tickets, or following the approved project plan-rather than adapting to solve the bigger, newer problems the business may be facing.”īut when a crisis drags on for months, a focus on tactical work will only keep us treading water. Here we are, almost seven months later, with no end to remote working insight. When office buildings first cleared out in March, many thought we’d be working from home for a few weeks at most, just long enough to “flatten the curve” of Covid-19 transmission. The predictable result of facing so many unprecedented challenges in such short succession-both nationally and globally-is default to short-term thinking. Of all the memes I’ve seen about the year 2020, one of my favorites features infomercial star Billy Mays, with this caption: “2020 every second: BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!” ![]() This article originally appeared on HR.com. ![]()
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