It’s High Time We Reward Our People for the Human Work

For those of you who read both newsletters this won’t come as a surprise - we at PeopleNotTech are openly embarking on a new “crusade” if you will - that of getting employees to be appreciated and rewarded for the human work. The “Pay them for it” campaign.

What is it you ask? It is our recognition that the teams we work with, have heard and understood the need for the human work and they have mercifully lowered their -perfectly understandable- resistance to the work and are at now engaging in it with regularity and it is now time we entered a new age where we thank them for it. It is our pledge that we won’t stop until humans in the workplace are being given the space and support to look after themselves and understand and better their behaviours and the behaviours of their team. It is high time.

High time we stopped confining the human work to an afterthought or to a “Friday initiative”.

• High time we stopped confining the human work to an afterthought or to a “Friday initiative”.
• High time we reexamined NPS and other sterile measurements.
• High time we started showing our people true care and respect starting with empowering them and recognising their efforts.
• High time we attacked the HumanDebt of toxic cultures head-on, by asking our people to please do the necessary human work.
• High time we stopped regarding it as “the fluffy part”.
• High time we all learned, communicated and implemented those strategies that make us feel safe, seen, connected and invested.
• High time we challenged the wild presumption that we can be productive at work if we don’t apply our EQ and keep firmly connected to our own emotional needs and those of others.
• High time we made empathy and kindness mandatory including the way this reflects in big topics in terms of collaboration and interactions from radical condor to teaming.
• High time we make the human work so central to all we do, that space and time for it will be rigorously ring-fenced both at an individual and at a team level.
• High time we stopped hoping we can execute on digital transformations or truly be Agile before we habitually spend our time on these people topics.
• High time we ceased making our people think they ought to bring their professional masks to work instead of their authentic selves.
• High time we postponed big conversations about outcomes, flexibility and "private lives".
• High time we spent intentional time emotionally investing into each other.
• High time we stopped ignoring the needs and feelings of our people.
• High time we ended all fear manifestations from impression management to blame cultures.
• High time we internalised the big topic of emotional intelligence and we started breaking down the task.

High time we reexamined NPS and other sterile measurements.

High time we started showing our people true care and respect starting with empowering them and recognising their efforts.