Embracing Progress: Next Steps For The Future Of Work
ENGAGEMENT, PERSONALIZATION, INTEGRATION AND CHOICE.
These four Priorities are core themes for any Future-of-Work transformation. Embrace them as you take the next steps to achieve a future-proofed, talent-focused, and progressive working environment.
PROGRESS is at the heart of the American Dream and the significant ongoing workforce and workplace changes. Technological advances are enabling new ways of working that are long overdue—responding to decades of societal evolution and new understanding about what actually engages workers and increases productivity.
Sophie Wade is an authority on the Future of Work, and in Embracing Progress she shares her expertise and insights to explain the current and project work environment. She outlines how you can take the new steps to transform your company successfully, applying first principles to develop your unique plan for progress. You will learn about the four Priorities and six Pillars to focus on and evolve and how to achieve as smooth a transition as possible.
Embracing Progress will give you the tools you need to develop and execute a viable strategic plan to tackle ongoing workplace changes, allowing your company to flourish in the years ahead.

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Embracing Progress: Next Steps For The Future Of Work
ENGAGEMENT, PERSONALIZATION, INTEGRATION AND CHOICE.
These four Priorities are core themes for any Future-of-Work transformation. Embrace them as you take the next steps to achieve a future-proofed, talent-focused, and progressive working environment.
PROGRESS is at the heart of the American Dream and the significant ongoing workforce and workplace changes. Technological advances are enabling new ways of working that are long overdue—responding to decades of societal evolution and new understanding about what actually engages workers and increases productivity.
Sophie Wade is an authority on the Future of Work, and in Embracing Progress she shares her expertise and insights to explain the current and project work environment. She outlines how you can take the new steps to transform your company successfully, applying first principles to develop your unique plan for progress. You will learn about the four Priorities and six Pillars to focus on and evolve and how to achieve as smooth a transition as possible.
Embracing Progress will give you the tools you need to develop and execute a viable strategic plan to tackle ongoing workplace changes, allowing your company to flourish in the years ahead.

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Embracing Progress: Next Steps For The Future Of Work

Embracing Progress: Next Steps For The Future Of Work

by A. Sophie Wade
Embracing Progress: Next Steps For The Future Of Work

Embracing Progress: Next Steps For The Future Of Work

by A. Sophie Wade

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Overview

ENGAGEMENT, PERSONALIZATION, INTEGRATION AND CHOICE.
These four Priorities are core themes for any Future-of-Work transformation. Embrace them as you take the next steps to achieve a future-proofed, talent-focused, and progressive working environment.
PROGRESS is at the heart of the American Dream and the significant ongoing workforce and workplace changes. Technological advances are enabling new ways of working that are long overdue—responding to decades of societal evolution and new understanding about what actually engages workers and increases productivity.
Sophie Wade is an authority on the Future of Work, and in Embracing Progress she shares her expertise and insights to explain the current and project work environment. She outlines how you can take the new steps to transform your company successfully, applying first principles to develop your unique plan for progress. You will learn about the four Priorities and six Pillars to focus on and evolve and how to achieve as smooth a transition as possible.
Embracing Progress will give you the tools you need to develop and execute a viable strategic plan to tackle ongoing workplace changes, allowing your company to flourish in the years ahead.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781599327853
Publisher: Advantage Media Group, Inc.
Publication date: 05/01/2017
Pages: 292
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

A. SOPHIE WADE is founder and Workforce Innovation Specialist of Flexcel Network, a consultancy that facilitates corporations’ transition to substantially different work-related environments. With deep knowledge in the Future-of-Work field, she frequently speaks and writes on issues that greatly impact companies such as talent engagement and retention, purpose-driven culture, digital transformation, Millennial demands, workplace flexibility, and the new latticed and diversified career paradigms.

Wade has lived and worked in five countries helping major corporations and entrepreneurs develop, finance, and execute strategic initiatives, build teams and ventures, and create partnerships. She earned a BA from Oxford University and an MBA from INSEAD. Wade is the 2015-17 president of the New York City Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners.

Table of Contents

About the Author i

Foreword vii

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction: "What's It Like, Riding a Dinosaur?" 1

Chapter 1 Principles, Priorities, Pillars, and People 11

Chapter 2 Technology: Enabler, Driver, Supporter, integrator 31

Chapter 3 Me-llennials, We-llennials: Inclusion Matters 45

Chapter 4 The New Rules of Engagement, Culture First 59

Chapter 5 Leadership: Ego and Empathy 77

Chapter 6 Productivity, Performance, and Personalization 93

Chapter 7 Mindset, Policies, and Environment 119

Chapter 8 Creativity and Collaboration 133

Chapter 9 Freelancers and Frameworks 149

Chapter 10 Current Conundrums: Choice and Context 165

Chapter 11 Careers: Mapping and Mentoring 181

Chapter 12 The Organization as a Living Organism 205

Chapter 13 Your Plan for Progress 217

Epilogue: What Else is Important? 243

Future of Work Lexicon: Words and Meanings 253

Endnotes 259

Services 269

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