ENGAGEMENT, PERSONALIZATION, INTEGRATION,
AND CHOICE
These four Priorities are core themes of any Future-of-Work transformation. Embrace them as you take the next steps to achieve a future-proofed, talent-focused, and progressive working environment.
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MATT
BREITFELDER
Chief Talent Officer,
BlackRock
JULIE
SILVER, MD
Associate Professor,
Harvard Medical School
“Sophie Wade brings a thoughtful and refreshing perspective to the critical topic of the Future of Work. She has spent much time and energy assessing how we can achieve better performance, engagement, and career satisfaction in the workplace. Embracing Progress is full of good ideas that can help us all think more creatively about how we work. It couldn’t come at a more important time.”
“Sophie Wade brings to readers fresh ideas and terrific strategies aimed at helping them to succeed in today’s and tomorrow’s dynamic work environment, with experience from her own career that has been latticed and diverse.”
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In the future working environment--for which 'ecosystem' is a more relevant term--each company's and each individual's position and path will be unique, interconnected, integrated, and dynamic, Sophie Wade explains in her book Embracing Progress. In this exclusive with The Smart Manager, she explains why engagement, personalization, integration, and choice will be the core themes for any future-of-work transformation.
Unlearning to Live with Change: How to Hire, Respond and Succeed in an Evolving Environment
What roles and tasks do you need to hire for and for how long will those be relevant, as your business evolves at an accelerated pace? How can you identify the right people? How can they be prepared for the changing needs of the marketplace? “Unlearning” traditional ways of working might seem outlandish. However, it might well be the easiest way for new and existing employees to step away from traditional practices and adapt on a sustainable basis for a radically new and evolving business environment...
Flexibility, Fairness, Trust, Empowerment Make Work Human
The upside of all the changes taking place in the world of work is that the human element is now being celebrated. "The new organization looks like, feels like a living organism. Embrace that human element," said A. Sophie Wade, author of Embracing Progress: Next Steps for the Future of Work.
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A Sophie Wade @ASophieWade - Monday, Oct 16, 2017
@BlairMiloLP on exciting new types of leadership roles & emerging industries w the #futureofwork re new Indiana career/talent role #NAWBOWBC
A Sophie Wade @ASophieWade - Monday, Oct 16, 2017
Allow employees to work in ways that enable them to be most productive - as the data shows. #futureofwork https://t.co/KDyqcsxzmW
A Sophie Wade @ASophieWade - Monday, Oct 16, 2017
RT @TijenOnaran: w/ inspiring women like @ASophieWade @TheresaRProctor @NAWBONational #NAWBOWBC https://t.co/6L23Ur2k0y
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Sophie is a Workforce Innovation Specialist. She is an authority on the wide-ranging Future-of-Work issues impacting companies and workers’ new demands – such as attracting, engaging and retaining talent; digital transformation; managing a distributed workforce; and new career paradigms.
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