The New Workplace Realities
By Ernie Chen

With continuous instability and uncertainty, employees today have changed their motivations to fit the new realities. Personal fulfillment has become more important than just working hard to make money. Today’s new employees demand their jobs to be challenging and interesting. The rationale is simple – Why keep working on a routine job that does not offer security. Most organization’s focus is now place on how to capture the emotion of employees. To survive in the extreme careers of the new employees, organizations must create new motivators to stimulate positive connections that will keep their employees enthusiastic and loyal.

In response to the new workplace challenges, organizations are using innovative methods to motivate their employees thus creating a bond that ensures sustainable loyalty. The 3 key and effective methods being practice are:

1. Developing a Compelling Vision for Your Organization to Share with Your Employees.
2. Creating a Powerful Partnership Between All Employees Built Upon Trust, Equality, and Sharing
3. Drive Learning To Ensure Continuous Development Of Individuals and Organization

If we study and analyze great organizations, we will find the driving force for their achievements in the heart power of their employees – their passion for success. Heart power is perhaps the most underutilized resource in business today and yet many organizations are not leveraging on the amazing power of heart power. Contrary to that, organizations that capture the hearts of their employees will find that their employees engaged heart experience, enthusiasm of challenge, thrill of competition and passion for success.

To attract and retain today’s best and most intelligent employees, and to inspire excellence in them, we need to create uplifting workplaces with continuous learning and contributing opportunities. Walt Disney once said, “You can dream, create, design, and build the most wonderful place in the world ….. but it requires people to make the dream a reality.”

Last updated - 30 April 2004