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Workplace has evolved to these 5 things

As we know, the workplace today is very different from the workplace of yesterday, yet how many people are doing the following 5 right things?
  1. From hierarchies to a more flattened structure, so there are less people doing work and one-man-operations is very common. There is no more such thing as senior people or junior people but people that interact and people that don't interact. Obviously those that don't interact are losing out as no one is helping them!
  2. From hoarded information to shared information. Yes, instead of managers holding some privileged information, information are now shared instantaneously on What's App, Line, twitter and facebook. In fact even SMS is dying. If you are still using your smartphone only for reading e-mails, you are becoming another Nokia.
  3. From fear-based leadership to Empowering and Inspiring Leadership.  Smart leaders understand the concept of following from the front, not just leading from the front.  Following from the front means helping your team members becoming successful. When your people are successful, you the leader will be more successful. No more leadership by command, control and coercion, instead Leadership by Inspiration, Empowerment and Motivation. 
  4. From Climbing the Corporate Ladder to Creating the Ladder. Employees now have a quicker way to share their expertise, passions and skills in very public way like via intranets, chatrooms and social media. There is no need to climb the corporate ladder, instead employees are building their own ladders.
  5. From Know-it-All to Learn-it-All. Yes, going for training is no longer an annual affair.  There is also no need to justify training. For training is no longer a luxury but a must, like stationery. If you don't train your people and they stay with your company, your company will be doing things the same old ineffective way. And by not training your company people, you're training your competitors' people indirectly for they will more effective than your untrained company people.
By Andy Ng of Asia Trainers, see the full list of courses at here. 
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