Thomas Bertels: Designing Work To Be Fit For Humans
Thomas Bertels of Purpose Works Consulting is on a mission to help businesses design work to be fit for humans. By that, he means you have to design work intentionally to make it intrinsically interesting. He observes that too many job descriptions are just copy-pasted from one to the other. Thomas provides the four factors that make work motivating: 1) is the work meaningful? 2) are we responsible for the entire work product from end to end? 3) do we have the autonomy to do the work? and 4) do we have feedback from the work itself? Thomas implores us to reverse the long held view that you hire the hands and get the brains for free to you're hiring the brains in the first place. Listen to the end to claim the valuable gift that Thomas is offering our listeners.
Show highlights
03:49 We design jobs without thinking about what makes work intrinsically interesting
06:53 What people want and expect from work
08:02 Work is the product and the employee is the customer
10:43 The benefits from making work more meaningful and purposeful
14:54 5 things you need to do to make work meaningful and purposeful
18:48 Learn about Thomas. Email Thomas at thomas.bertels@purpose.works. You can call him at +1.917.754.8047.
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