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Coaching for Leaders

409: Gallup Findings on the Changing Nature of Work, with Jim Harter

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Management, Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Jim Harter: It’s the Manager

Jim Harter is the Chief Scientist for Workplace at Gallup. He has led more than 1,000 studies of workplace effectiveness, including the largest ongoing meta-analysis of human potential and business unit performance. He is the co-author with Jim Clifton of the new book, It’s the Manager: Gallup Finds That the Quality of Managers and Team Leaders is the Single Biggest Factor in Your Organization’s Long-Term Success*.

Key Points

Millennials and Generation Z have influenced the changing nature of work. Six key findings from Gallup:

  1. People don’t just work for a paycheck — they want a purpose.
  2. People are no longer pursuing job satisfaction — they are pursuing development.
  3. People don’t want bosses — they want coaches.
  4. People don’t want annual reviews — they want ongoing conversations.
  5. People don’t want a manager that fixates on their weaknesses.
  6. People say, it’s not my job — it’s my life.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Most of us recognize that the nature of work has changed in the last generation.

0:05.4

But can you quantify how or list which things have changed?

0:10.2

On this episode, Gallup's chief data scientist on what their research is now showing

0:16.1

as the six key changes to the nature of work. This is coaching for leaders,

0:21.4

episode 4009. This is Coaching for Leaders, episode 409.

0:23.2

Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.

0:28.8

Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders and I'm your host, Dave Stahoviac. Leaders aren't born, they're made. And this weekly show helps you discover leadership

0:45.9

wisdom through insightful conversations. Certainly you've noticed that the world of work has changed in the last generation. A lot is different

0:55.7

than when our parents and grandparents were in the workforce and it of course is still

1:00.8

changing and well we all know that and we have a lot of our own

1:05.0

experiences that we can point to something that has often very helpful to do is

1:09.6

actually to look at the big picture and look at some of the data and the science behind this so

1:15.2

that we can really show up in our own workplaces well informed of what we can do to take action

1:20.6

that's going to make the biggest difference. Who else would we look to for data

1:26.0

than probably the leading organization in the world on researching the workplace and that is Gallup?

1:32.0

I'm so glad to be able to welcome today.

1:34.4

Jim Harder, who is the chief scientist for workplace at Gallup.

1:38.0

He has led more than 1,000 studies of workplace effectiveness,

1:42.4

including the largest ongoing meta-analysis of human

1:45.9

potential and business unit performance. He is the author of 12, the elements of great

1:51.7

managing and well-beingbeing the five essential elements.

1:55.0

Jim has also published articles in many prominent business and academic journals

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