- The Predictable World
- Humans vs Robots
- A Playful Mindset
- Making Playfulness Work
- The Power of Play
What you'll learn
- How to adopt a practical outlook towards combating uncertainties at work and in life
- Learn the basics of applying 'play' as a mindset within your ecosystem
- Develop agility in your thinking and the opportunity to make your work and life more agile
- Understand how to ride the 'unpredictable world' in an age where humans and robots will work together
Description
From the beginning of the 21st century, predictability in work life has gone out of the window. Predictability and permanency have disappeared from the way businesses are run as well. Be it extremely short product lifecycles or unexpected changes in the business environment caused by a new regulation or something like a Coronavirus, unpredictability is all around us. Almost all of the sequential, logical work with predictable outcomes is today done by robots and algorithms, be it the shop-floor of an automobile manufacturer or micro-level individual tasks. The result of this is that humans are left to deal with work that rarely has a predictable outcome.
So, an approach of ‘sticking to the norms’, that worked even 5 years back, is unlikely to work today, as the norms would have been rendered defunct, thanks to increased robotization. At the workplace, humans have to be adaptive to change, all the time. To survive in this new environment, they have to be agile and nimble footed and willing to unlearn old habits and pick up new skills, all the time. Unlike the single-career professionals of the 20th century, most humans today are expected to have multiple careers in their lifetime.
Being nimble-footed does not come easily as humans have a natural resistance to change. Moreover, as adults, we are taught to adapt to social norms and to be afraid of failure and criticism. The way to overcome this is to be playful. Playful not as being sporty or childish, but to adopt playfulness as a mindset. This course describes the 'why and how' of adopting a playful mindset to combat uncertainty. This can be adopted by organizations and individuals alike.
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About the instructors
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Parthajeet Sarma
Entrepreneur, Author, Academician and Workplace Strategist
Parthajeet, a Chevening Scholar (Oxford Univ, UK), is a pioneering senior consultant in Workplace Transformation and Change Management, backed by over two decades of having consulted medium and large corporations on over 300 projects. He teaches in his spare time and trains executives.
Parthajeet is a practitioner in the application of persuasive design in the context of organizational design, helping large and medium organizations effect employee behavior change through positive workplace experiences.
He founded the workplace transformation consultancy Idream in 2003. Additionally, he is a Senior Associate with Workplace Strategy & Change Management leaders Advanced Workplace Associates. Published in 2018, Parthajeet's book “The Radically Changing Nature of Work, Workers & Workplaces” highlighted what was to become obvious with the pandemic.
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its a good
the information was great the presentation was not playful as I expected it would be due to the course title.
I feel like he summarized the workforce well to give bacjkground. Then, he did explain how playfulness could be useful. Yet, when he got to the part where we should implement, he only gave vague notions. In part, I assume, that may be because you have to look into your own organization for how to implement. However, I feel like giving more details here would help. I think anyone who wants to build their own business should take this seriously, though. We don't know how the world will change from day to day and this is actually a useful strategy, esp. if you want your workforce to be loyal.
Definitely something I'd love to look deeper in later!