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The Power Hour: An Action Guide to Shaping Work-Life’s Future

The Power Hour: An Action Guide to Shaping Work-Life’s Future. Presenters Maureen Corcoran Ellen Galinsky Sandy Burud Teresa Hopke Kathie Lingle Perry Christensen Moderator: Diane Burrus. Topics and Speakers. Maureen Corcoran : Promoting Healthy Living

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The Power Hour: An Action Guide to Shaping Work-Life’s Future

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  1. The Power Hour: An Action Guide to Shaping Work-Life’s Future Presenters Maureen Corcoran Ellen Galinsky Sandy Burud Teresa Hopke Kathie Lingle Perry Christensen Moderator: Diane Burrus

  2. Topics and Speakers Maureen Corcoran: Promoting Healthy Living Sandy Burud:How We Will Work Kathie Lingle:Optimizing the Work-Life Portfolio Ellen Galinsky: Building WWW On a Theory of Change Teresa Hopke: Getting the Word Out About Work-Life Perry Christensen:Lessons from Leaders

  3. Promoting Healthy Living: Tip #1 Think outside the blocks!

  4. How We Will Work: Tip #1 Use work-life values as a rudder. (To ensure people can thrive in their work and personal life and that organizations can thrive, too.) “I always wanted to be somebody. I should have been more specific.” -- Lily Tomlin

  5. Work-Life Portfolio: Tip #1 The Work-Life story requires a trip to the Pyramids

  6. Principle 1: See your effort in stages from changing awareness to changing behavior to engaging people in action Flex = Advantaged Employees Flex = All Employees

  7. Communication – Tip #1 Careful – there are naked pictures of employees looming out there

  8. Leadership – Tip #1 • “Everything I learned in business I first learned on my paper route.” OR • “If you pick up one end of the stick, you pick up the other.”

  9. Promoting Healthy Living: Tip #2 Review organizational health initiatives through the lens of….“how can this be supported at the community level?”

  10. How We Will Work: Tip #2 Re-examine everything else --because most of it will change

  11. Work-Life Portfolio: Tip #2 Beware of the One-Shot: Participation in a variety of work-life programs produces the greatest impact

  12. Principle 2: See your effort in stages from changing awareness to changing behavior to engaging people in action 2014 2005

  13. Communication – Tip #2 It’s easy to hit “send.” It’s much harder to communicate

  14. Leadership – Tip #2 • “The….organization…cannot foster shared vision without calling forth personal visions, and personal visions are always multi-faceted—they always include deeply felt desires for our personal, professional, organizational and family lives.” --Peter Senge, MIT

  15. Promoting Healthy Living: Tip #3 Things your mother said that don’t apply: “Close the door; you don’t live in a barn!”

  16. How We Will Work Tip #3It’s ‘personal choice’ working. I can make my own • Job • Team • Schedule • Workspace • Employment

  17. Work-Life Portfolio: Tip #3 Work-Life Portfolio investments impact commitment and thus improve the bottom line

  18. Principle 3: Know how people see your issue before you begin Workflex = Reward or Favor Workflex = Effective workplaces

  19. Communication – Tip #3 Don’t join the shiny-object bandwagon without a strategy. Avoid being random. Connect the dots.

  20. Leadership – Tip #3 • Create and celebrate a culture of “discussing the undiscussables” and “rethinking the unthinkables.”

  21. Promoting Healthy Living: Tip #4 Shared weakness = shared strength

  22. How We Will Work: Tip #4 …Boundarylessness Boundaries of time, place & mental space will evaporate. So, rethink where to steer the rudder.

  23. Work-Life Portfolio: Tip #4 Never overlook an opportunity to explain how employee attitude translates into profit

  24. Principle 4: Know what you want people to do

  25. Communication – Tip #4 You can’t bore people into action.

  26. Leadership – Tip #4 Organizational • The hockey stick formula for success: Departmental Individual

  27. Promoting Healthy Living: Tip #5 “Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted counts.” --Einstein

  28. How We Will Work: Tip #5 New skills are required. To stay on course with the work-life rudder, we must help people learn to: Adapt. Self-regulate. Focus. Invent. Filter. Manage time, attention, complexity & ambiguity

  29. Work-Life Portfolio: Tip #5 Never underestimate the influence of hourly workers on every stakeholder they encounter. They need every benefit and reward you and I enjoy -- only much, much more.

  30. Principle 5: Messages are critical – Unexpected messages have stopping power

  31. Communication – Tip #5 Finishing is always harder than starting.

  32. Leadership – Tip #5 • “Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.” --Mark Twain

  33. Promoting Healthy Living: Tip #6 Things your mother said that don’t apply: “Cupcakes are not a breakfast food!”

  34. How We Will Work: Tip #6 Who will we work for? Increasingly,ourselves… as freelancers, contractors, consultants, entrepreneurs, inventors and makers. & employers …or both

  35. Work-Life Portfolio: Tip #6 Being an employer of choice pays. Be sure to count the ways to everyone who will listen.

  36. Principle 6: Messages are critical – Spell out the costs of not taking action as well as the benefits of change

  37. Communication – Tip #6 Don’t fake it or you won’t make it.

  38. Leadership – Tip #6 • “Even with a nightcap, a wolf looks nothing like a grandmother.” • Honesty, clarity

  39. Promoting Healthy Living: Tip #7 It does matter what other people think! Be smart about getting the right people on your team and on your side.

  40. How We Will Work: Tip #7 Re-think the point of influence • Is it the organization? • What if fewer people work for organizations? • If they create their own ‘employment’? Who moved my culture?

  41. Work-Life Portfolio: Tip #7 Don’t be afraid to insist on the unthinkable: Working less can result in more

  42. Principle 7: Unexpected messengers make a difference

  43. Communication – Tip #7 Understand that your target audience has an attention span of 10 seconds

  44. Leadership – Tip #7 • Create individual and departmental experiments with new ways of working

  45. Promoting Healthy Living: Tip #8 Things your mother said that don’t apply: ““I don’t know” is not an answer!”

  46. How We Will Work: Tip #8 So, if you’re a work-life revolutionary: Where is the ‘organization’ you want to influence? Whose culture? What work environment? Who’s in control? Did the work-life ‘job’ just morph into something else?

  47. Work-Life Portfolio: Tip #8 Work-Life Portfolio management contributes to the creation of shareholder value

  48. Principle 8: Target the people and organizations who have the power to bring about change—recognize, connect and assist them Connect! Recognize! Assist!

  49. Communication – Tip #8 Think of your communications like a decadent cake……. the more layers, the greater the impact.

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