The Road To Nowhere - The Emerging Workplace Culture with Gary Turner

“The mass culture change during the pandemic was arguably the largest behavioural intervention that has occurred in most people's lifetimes”.  

- Dr Emma Soane and Dr Tom Reader

This month I bring you a very special 'Live' Podcast with Gary Turner.

Garry works in International Business and is a 'Thinking Partner' for managers and leaders who are passionate about bringing humanity back into Organisational Culture.

He's recently created the Podcast: In The Business of Healthy Masculinity https://www.youtube.com/@RadicalityHealthyMasculinity where, as Garry puts it:

"I've created a space to tell the truth. To exhale. To admit that even with all the outward success—salary, stock, leadership title—something still feels off.

With special guests he asks the questions:

- Why does high performance often feel so lonely?

- Why do orgs invest so much in technology and not in human development?

- Why is there no room for honest challenge at the top?

In a previous podcast we discussed what's happened in the workplace since the Pandemic. https://youtu.be/YlVxYgHgte8

In this 'Live' podcast we will be going deeper into what's in the shadow culture of organising systems and share with you Gary's unique model and vision for transforming workplace culture into one that's about humility, humanity and love of our precious planet.

During the podcast they'll be opportunities as the audience to share your thoughts and ask questions.

We'd love you to join us in what I know will be a deep and lively discussion.

“My generation, Gen X, defined ourselves by our work and our role in hierarchical structures. The key message we got, starting off, was that you got your head down, “did your time”, and one day if you worked hard enough, for long enough, you too could be a stressed-out manager eating Rennies for your stress-induced heartburn, and shouting into a phone in your own tiny office/prison. The culture was quite macho: a case of go hard or go home…”

Gen Z has boundaries. They don’t owe you anything. They want a life outside of work. Which, when you think about it, makes perfect sense and is exactly how things should be.

Annie Auerbach, author of Flex: Reinventing Work for a Smarter, Happier Life, believes younger people are changing the workplace for the better.

“Gen Z have challenged some of the outdated norms of the workplace – for example that presenteeism, long working hours and 24/7 responsiveness are the ways to signal commitment. Burnout is higher on their cultural agenda than it was for previous generations, so they are more attuned to understanding how they work best and when they are at their most productive. They’ve shown that working flexibly is ambitious, creative and productive.”     

(Article: I thought Gen Z were lazy. Now, at 51, I realise I've wasted my life at work - The i Paper)

https://apple.news/AZf_KsE3-Q5iO8yIgcRhn9w