When employees address issues early on — and without hesitation — organizations change for the better.
My biggest worry revolves around leading cultural and behavioral change in societies that have typically been more hierarchical in nature. In many markets, success has always been driven by presenting one’s boss with an already-solved problem and not getting much input from others.
Today we ask our people to escalate issues early — often before they even know how serious they may be — and to engage others. Engaging others helps get to the right solution with the full franchise view and leverages best practices across the institution. We also ask our people that if they see something that might be awry, to say something — and to the right leaders without hesitation — which does not always fit the legacy processes of a hierarchal organization. In some countries, this can be seen as being disloyal to one’s boss.
In this instance, I find it is critical to spend a lot of time providing the context and reason why we need the change. People need to relate to it at a personal level, so I use a lot of examples of situations I have faced — some very personal to my family and not just to my professional context — to help drive home the point and to role model what I am asking of others.
By Jane Fraser, CEO of Citigroup Latin America.
Source: Fortune
If you were to ask a random person on the street what an HR professional does, their answer would probably be conflict resolution, or that HR folks deal with employee salaries and benefits. And while that is part of an HR professional’s responsibilities — to ensure employee safety, respect and accountability — that doesn’t even scratch the surface.
With remote work destined for good to be a fixture of the modern workplace, almost half of companies are monitoring remote employees’ online activities. Monitored activity can include active work hours, websites visited, chats, and messaging logs. Almost a third (31%) of respondents said their employers are monitoring their computer screens in real-time.
Whatever the reason, people seem to be strongly craving a connection with their true selves and to bring more authenticity into their lives. There’s just one problem. There is no true self, at least not in any sense of the self that we can understand through science. We should seriously question the idea of authenticity as a meaningful construct in our lives.
