Overcoming the Resistance to the Human Work

Yesterday’s article tried to present a comprehensive view of both the causes and the symptoms of the resistance we all at times exhibit towards the human work.

In today’s video, Ffion Jones talks you through some of the signs you can look out for to diminish the effects of this in your own workplace.

If you’re a leader reading this then your role in the topic is evidently greater but it is vital to recall that we can all do better and assume a degree of personal responsibility regarding this and that irrespective of what level of the organisation you are in, and irrespective if you believe you can affect the attitude towards people work collectively or not, you can -and should- still check your own bias, unwillingness or lack of enthusiasm towards it.

In other words yes it is the organisation’s to-do to give you the tools and the space to do the human work, undoubtedly. And yes, their sincerity in asking for this work is easy to doubt judging on past performance and they will only be able to regain your trust when they would have replaced sterile surveys with genuinely useful software and strategies and then rewarded us all for engaging with them but, even before they do that, we still have to show up ourselves.

What “showing up” consists of is of course very personal and therefore different for all of us but it begins with unflinchingly admitting and internalising the need for the human work and it continues with a conscious effort of investing time into it with regularity.