Wouldn’t it be amazing if we had access to an HR manual defining exactly how to navigate the unknown with proven tried and tested workforce strategies to implement in your organisation that work in the new world of work? Shifting your mindset to adopting new workforce strategies within your organisation this year has proved challenging to most organisations to say the least.

COVID-19 has proved that people and businesses are capable of tremendous growth under the pressure of a world crisis. The challenge for many of us will be to sustain this momentum to discover new ways to thrive long-term amidst the constant disruptions that keep resetting our paths forward.

Deloitte called on organizations to look at work and the workforce through three lenses, PURPOSE, POTENTIAL AND PERSPECTIVE, —to transcend a perceived conflict between humans and technology.  Reports were completed by more than 3,600 Executives in 96 countries, which included responses from more than 1,200 C-suite executives and board members, in addition to other management functions.

For the first time in the report’s 11-year history, business respondents (59%), including 233 CEOs, outnumbered HR executives (41%) in the survey—underscoring the growing importance of human capital- HR in organizational decision-making.

This year – 2021 has shown that putting people at the heart of an organization’s decisions about work and the workforce enables leaders to better stay-ahead of disruption. Now more than ever, purpose, potential, and perspective are essential to build an organization that can THRIVE in an unpredictable environment with an unknown future.

We agree that it is time for organizations to shift their focus from a survival mindset to a thrive mindset. For leaders to shift their strategies from preparing for the known to  preparing for the unknown.

How can you transform your thinking and position your business to thrive when all you are focused on is making the changes necessary to survive?

Deloitte believes that making the shift from “survive to thrive” depends on an Organisation’s becoming and remaining distinctly human at its core” a different way of being that approaches every question, issue and decision from a human perspective first.”

 

What are your thoughts on these workforce strategies?

How can we support you during this transformation? Get in touch.

As I reach over to the bedside table to press the dismiss button on my smartphone alarm, I think, “just another 5 minutes”, instead, I CHOOSE the thought, “5-4-3-2-1-GO!” #the5secondrule by Mel Robbins, which is so simple and yet so effective! I sit up in bed, light a candle, meditate, and harmonize heart and mind. These well-being practices set the tone for my best day ahead. How we start our day matters for our overall well-being.

Sure we have flaws, we crumble, we crack, and we freak out, as I write these words it reminds me of how my son and husband drive me to lose my mind because of their inability to assist me with managing our home, despite the fact that they are treated like absolute Kings…almost always.

Can you relate?

Yip, sure you can, I know I’m not the only frustrated person! I too have those days where I open that bottle of red wine with the intention of drinking half a glass to take the edge off after a stressful day, whilst preparing dinner. I won’t lie, one glass may have led to a few more glasses which required me to blast the speakers with my favorite tunes and let loose!

I love a lounge disco, it’s readily available, requires no dressing up, there’s no one to pass judgment, I have full control of the media player and well, I have the choice to dance starkers too!

Tackling those daily tasks on your to-do list, with LOVE and with SPEED, doing the school run, moving my body, corresponding to e-mails, coaching and consulting clients, completing HR projects, designing adverts for my INSTA, FACEBOOK, LINKED IN, TWITTER, and GOOGLE posts. Love and Speed, a positive mindset shift, essential daily well-being practices.

Of course, I want to take full advantage of the free marketing we get from the social media platforms, so I have had to research the “HOW TO’s”, and spent hours developing a content media strategy and having loads of fun playing on Adobe Illustrator!

Reflecting on my personal and business progress, setting new goals, planning my week, and my business content plan to be shared, and scheduling my daily and monthly tasks into my diary for the week ahead are essential daily practices I need to do consistently to stay on track.

Scheduled into my diary too, “Search for new recipes”. While we were in the store isles to grab a few groceries the other day my son was complaining that he has lost complete interest in eating because my cooking is so boring and not flavorful enough! My attempt to ensure he is fed nutritious, healthy meals appears to not have been very well received, “BAD Mother!” I thought, “You deserve a slap on the wrist!” Just proves that because he is a teen doesn’t mean that I have stopped beating myself up for “Not doing the best I can for him”.

Taking our spoilt furry Bassett Hound kids to the vet for their Paw-dicure is a funny story I have to share. So, I manage to get the Bassett’s into the vet’s rooms and our younger male “Oliver” freaks out and literally has a poo as the vet approaches him to pick him up and take him through to the room, really now?

Of course, he needed to be sedated to get his nails trimmed and the bill was four times more than what it should have been… Why I am even batting an eyelid about how this panned out is beyond me.  There has never been anything simple or normal about our animals or our household for that matter…. So the productive day I had planned didn’t quite pan out as planned.

The Bassett’s require exercise which seems to be solely my responsibility, grooming them, prepping their bone broth for their healthy meals, prepping our green juice and overnight oat jars too so I get to sail through my to-do list with ease and grace.

Allocating funds to those self-care rituals, the highlighting and dying of those grey’s, plucking or tinting the brows, bikini and lip waxes, let alone taking the time to sit in the salon whilst my mind is racing about what I still need to get through before I can have 30 mins to relax in whichever way works for me at the time.

After many decades I have learned that well-being practices are in fact not an act of vanity but energizing and empowering me to be the best version of myself in my pursuit of LIVING my best life. By embracing these rituals I have learned to look forward to them and believe that it is my divine right and that in order to give love to those close to me and to serve others, these are non-negotiable’s.

After evening dishes and meal prep for the next day, I get to unwind and read a couple of pages of my self-help paperback, Oh’ Yes, and lastly the most important task, 5 mins before I slip into my sleep state, I affirm my “I AM” statements learned from, Dr. Wayne Dyer, “ I AM ABUNDANCE”, “I AM PEACE”, “I AM GORGEOUS” and any others I feel I need.

I hear some of you responding with “ What a load of WOO WOO”!

I dare you to give these practices a try.

What have you got to lose? You can only gain a POSITIVE MINDSET. 

Unfortunately, the reality is that we sabotage ourselves and have reinforced the “I AM NOT” statements, such as, “I AM NOT INTELLIGENT ENOUGH”, “I AM NOT GOOD ENOUGH” for a lifetime, so it will take time to unlearn.

I am sure many of you fulfilling feminine roles may relate to this snippet or maybe enduring TOUGHER circumstances, have LONGER TO DO Lists to get through on a daily basis, and maybe raise larger families single-handedly whilst working in a professional career.

Nurturing, self-giving, vulnerability, and sensitivity– the very attributes of femininity to go under fire——can actually be our greatest STRENGTHS.

Women, womanhood, femininity, a quality, an essence that is enduring and timeless, its inherent nature is magical and holds everything together.

In HONOUR of celebrating the ESSENCE that represents, kindness, bravery, will, passion, grace, and light-heartedness.

“ I SALUTE YOU!”

If you are curious to explore my TruEssence Pathway – a 3 step Process to discover your true nature in my Leadership Mentoring sessions, book a call.

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