Learning Essentials Week 20: Energy, Passion, and Optimism & Breaking Orthodoxies

We are on our 20th week of showcasing 2-3 weekly skills and a comprehensive list of resources to learn about them and put them into practice! We are putting a lot of effort into researching and curating content to add value to you. We hope you are finding these resources useful.

This week we are focusing on Energy, Passion, and Optimism & Breaking Orthodoxies

Most of the time, being at work is stressful and draining owing to the endless paperwork, busy environment, and jammed schedules. With that, it is important that you know how to utilize your emotional intelligence and learn to incorporate the skills of energy, passion, and optimism to make you motivated to work. Energizing yourself helps you stay focused, make better decisions, and produce high-quality outputs. 

On one hand, having a positive attitude is also an important skill you have to possess. Being optimistic enables you to face challenges in a much more productive way. Hence, in a workplace context, optimism can help enhance your business as it catalyzes numerous mental and physical benefits. Promoting positivity helps boost the wellness of every employee thus leading to a healthy lifestyle and less stress. 

Apparently, creating an optimistic workplace comes with investment of time and commitment to people. By doing so, companies must learn to determine the strengths of their employees. Employers may also practice encouraging gratitude and foster relationships among their colleagues. Moreover, boosting collaboration may also be another way to establish an optimistic working environment. Collaborative leadership is also viewed as an important factor that may encourage productivity and team engagement.

Breaking orthodoxies, on the other hand, is also a significant skill in the workplace. If businesses really want to be globally competitive in this generation, it is time for them to eradicate their many traditional business orthodoxies that do not have value anymore. It is believed by many, organizations that continue to break business orthodoxies are most likely to succeed. Change is an inevitable phase of life; thus, as part of growing, ending the orthodoxy is the answer. But looking on the bright side, many companies have already invested in some elements of crisis management orthodoxy.

Being different often results in producing innovative solutions; hence, sparking creativity in teams may allow you to generate breakthrough ideas. Therefore, it is important that you allow yourself to practice designing your thinking. In order to do so, you may apply the four lenses of innovation, known as a powerful tool for creative thinking, which consist of challenging orthodoxies, harnessing trends, leveraging resources, and understanding needs. 

Now that we are still in the middle of a pandemic, it is inevitable that this has brought many changes in the workplace. However, how would this phenomenon shape the future workforce? There are factors that should be considered such as the remote working environment, gender inequality, and diversity. More so, many orthodoxies have emerged about the near future of employment and if some of them are no longer viable to the current workforce conditions, it's time to break them.

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