The Every Day Human Work

Yesterday we spoke about the fact that the human work has to be priority, regular and intentional. Today’s video goes deeper into that.

We make no secret of the fact that the human work isn’t easy and it isn’t a once-and-done. We wish we could tell you differently, that there were some definitive books, Ted talks, courses or workshops that would be sufficient in terms of work and ensure no one needs to do anything more about emotions, interactions, team dynamics and any other elements of the human work for a length of time. But there isn’t any such thing.

There is no awareness and no education that would be enough to guarantee any type of change. There is no special learning that would magic everything better. There is no specific action that would be the ultimate one or indeed, the last one you need to do.

It is of course all needed and all useful but the only thing that will make a substantial difference in our lives is the full acceptance of the need for the human work and our willingness to apply ourselves to it for the rest of our professional lives.

The work will change, the behaviours that are worth analysing will vary, but the need to question, probe, resolve, preempt, understand and dissect should always be there not as part of a crisis, but part of our everyday continuous improvement practice that ensures the team is in fighting form to win.