The way we at Glee Factor look at work culture is by focusing on employees’ behaviors. We begin with a top-down approach where we help leaders evaluate their ideal work culture and identify the shortcomings when it comes to implementing their vision, and we complete the process through a bottom-up approach where we help employees and teams activate and adopt the needed behaviors in their dynamics. The culture that is not lived and practiced is only a vision.
With the coronavirus crisis these days, I am constantly thinking about how much our behavior matters. The leaders ask for a shift…
In May 2012, I got on a small 40 seat plane to fly to Labrador City for my first site visit as a mechanical engineer. It was a great learning experience for a young professional at the beginning of their career.
I returned to Montreal from that trip and a couple of days later a friend invited us to the closing party of a conference at a new location in town called New City Gas! I’d never heard of the conference or the location but we liked Moby enough to say yes to the invitation.
Starting on Feb 1, 2018, I have started a process to interview 100 professionals and leaders in Montreal. Every week, I met 10 professionals in different industries. Construction, engineering, technology, fashion, marketing, and entertainment to name a few. From a 10-employee company to large corporations, from CEOs, VPs, directors, managers, and HR team members, to senior and junior professionals and and entry level talents, I made sure that we gather a diverse set of data for this research. I have borrowed 30–90 minutes of your time to ask various questions which could help me build the foundation of our startup.
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The new series of interviews with professionals has just started. However, in this short time, there is a trend that somehow reveals itself in almost all the discussions. At Glee Factor, we are meeting 3 categories of professionals based in Montreal; employees, managers and c-suite leaders. We would like to understand their perspective and insight on work culture and happiness at work.
Employees
Most of the employees complain that their voices are not being heard at work. When asking about their glee factors, there are only few who have the chance to live with a work culture which addresses their…
I became interested in the subject of work culture when as a mechanical engineer working in mining industry, poor work conditions started to affect my career directly. In this quest I didn’t miss any conversation or a conference on the subject of work culture.
Forward thinking culture habits have always brought me a series of personal struggles. As much as I was always thrilled to hear insightful practices, I could barely apply any of them to the industry I worked for. It was when I started the Glee Factor project that I realized I was not alone. Many professionals passionate…
“A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it. This new civilization brings with it new family styles; changed ways of working, loving, and living; a new economy…and beyond all this, an altered consciousness… Pieces of this new civilization exist today. Millions are already attuning their lives to the rhythms of tomorrow. Others, terrified of the future, are engaged in a desperate, futile fight into the past and are trying to restore the dying world that gave them birth… Much in this emerging civilization contradicts the old traditional industrial civilization. It brings…
Speculating about the future can be fun, but of course there is wisdom in Drucker’s words: The best way to predict the future is to create it. Due to work of researchers, and psychologist, we have a good grasp of the emerging stage of consciousness that will help us create a different future. In this future, we seek wholeness beyond ego and see the inner lives-the emotional, intuitive, and spiritual-as valuable domains of learning.
We define a life well-lived by inner, not outer, standards. We see life as an unfolding journey and seek to live from trust in abundance, not…
As a female professional working in a male-dominant industry, I know the meaning of diversity and inclusion, and I know many people suffer from a lack of diversity at work. It can take place at a demographic level and refer to age, gender, or race. I believe it can also refer to a more general lack of openness towards diverse personalities, values, and abilities.
Today’s business world is evolving. Terms like leadership, collaboration, and team are being given new meaning. Obviously, diversity and inclusion are no exceptions.
Most organizations still look for a “culture fit” in their new hires, but…
There are two words we hear a lot these days, especially in the business world and specifically about work cultures. “Technology” and “human”. It sometimes seems as though the future of work belongs only to one of them. When technology pushes, the human pulls or vice versa.
On the one hand, we search for new technologies to open new horizons, to show us the possibilities of what we can achieve. On the other hand, while machines gain more and more importance and power in our lives, we feel out of balance. There is an uncertainty to the future, and the…
When we think about the future of work, we might think about people doing nothing while robots take care of everything like that wonderful population painted by the movie WALL-E. Even though this very extreme situation could be part truthful in the future, we have to admit that we don’t really know what will happen in the future. The only thing we know is that the way we work is changing faster than ever and organizations need to stay up-to-date if they want to attract good talent, keep being productive and ultimately survive in a global competition. …
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