Tracking Heart Count To Grow Head Count

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By Liquid Thought

 

Liquid Thought is a collective of Engineers, Creatives, Makers and Marketers – curious, talented and agile humans on a mission to unlock clients’ digital potential. The agency has been working on a range of leading corporates and impactful start-ups for over 21 years.

Despite seeing it in company values and website pages, how many businesses can clearly define what it means to be people-focused? Sustainable innovation can be defined as optimising a business at a people level and to achieve it requires a spark of ambition from leaders. This article unlocks smart insights that spotlight HR as a vehicle for sustainable innovation and how creative agencies are leading the way for corporations to follow in this regard. 

As you navigate, you’ll discover; 

  • How to pioneer leadership under the title of HR 
  • 3 smart insights into being more transparent and inclusive 
  • Supervising purpose to accelerate growth 
  • A people-generated mission statement 
  • How to improve the IQ of your business 

 

Knowledge, Action, and Direction 

Leaders who pioneer

Human-centred leadership is defined as “leadership that values people.” But how does this manifest itself on a daily basis? We’re seeing how the concept shapes communication, and perspective, and unlocks a sense of trust. It modifies how we approach problems and find progress. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way”. We’ve seen how a setup encourages collaboration and an environment has the potential to stimulate employees to be the best version of themselves, but a convenient and comfortable workplace requires one to champion the basics first, then infuse them into your results. Resourceful spaces and personalised experiences are built by transparent and inclusive leaders who constantly steer a balanced ratio between their people, the work they produce and how that evolves their company’s reputation. To be more inclusive and authentic with the employees you serve, let’s take a look at 3 insights you might want to jump onboard with. 

  1. Accept the willingness to listen, the disruptive world we operate in demands it to bring about change. Employees are “minds under construction” whose success determines the success of the company, and whose growth will be the capital the business brings in. 
  2. Overrule ordinance. Optimising your people and doing things differently puts a competitive advantage in your tank. Start empowering your team and giving them the confidence to make their own decisions for their improvement and the company’s well-being. 
  3. ” Fail Forward” advises Zulfiq Isaacs, CEO of Liquid Thought. Demonstrate the value of identifying risk patterns in people and teach them how to control and remove them. To treat professions as a valued part of a human being’s life, means you need to nurture them. 

We can easily camouflage ourselves in the digital world, but on the other side, there will always be people. Although the notion of Humans as a resource – hence “HR” – has prevailed for too long, the realisation that people are more than a resource to be exploited, and rather an asset to be nurtured, is fast gaining traction amongst the savvier companies.

Supervising Purpose To Accelerate Growth 

A mission statement generated by people 

HR has emerged as the compass for modelling attitudes and establishing a rich workplace filled with various personalities. To achieve this, HR leaders are diving deeper into data to further understand an employee’s experience. 

Being authentic in today’s world is more crucial than ever, and one way to do this is by having a purpose based on an ethos, unique to the brand, vital to all stakeholders, and aligned with values. Knowing someone’s triggers as well as their strengths improves communication and helps to build a motivated team; it is at this point that the ‘why’ begins to take shape and a purpose starts to spark. Employee pride, value-based decision-making, behaviour, goal-setting, and a sense of purpose all provide meaning to the work being done, which helps workers get through late nights, tight deadlines, and personality conflicts, or simply go that extra mile when they have the potential. 

To get a headstart, it’s essential to determine each coworker’s unique style in order to influence and connect with them on a deeper level. After that, tweak your behaviour and adapt the corporate behaviour in response to get the best out of each person. 

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Enhancing Your Business IQ 

Great teams don’t hide from mistakes, they embrace them

An HR specialist can open doors and create synergies with the workflows they design. They have what it takes to champion people to deliver with skill and commitment. Removing outdated methods and replacing them with an iterative-learning path that broadens their skill-set while boosting their self-assurance and helping you achieve mastery. Instead of continually nurturing from the top down, high-performing organisations and well-oiled teams do so in reverse, from the bottom up, as a means of creating transferable skills. Workplaces such as this are driven by innovation and in order to do so, depend on their employees, and their success is contingent on how they treat the people who deliver the results. 

A cultural lens must constantly be used in HR practice when deciding how to alter one’s tone and internal mechanics. It involves being flexible and agile in how people work, as well as experimenting and testing to the point where lessons from mistakes are used in future efforts to improve performance. It’s the concept of a fertile environment that is constantly under construction, and in a highly competitive market, this can only distinguish your product from the rest. 

To conclude 

How you make holistic wellness a key component in your workplace is what creates an environment that thrives with happy people. Happy people are more productive, create stronger, and more cohesive teams, and the minute you begin checking the pulses of employees is the minute you start accelerating the desire to work for your company. HR’s integral role in all of this comes from optimising a business at the level of people and in doing so achieving so much value for an organisation. HR’s involvement in strategic decision-making means wearing the leadership hat and in doing so, can accomplish;

 

  • Leaders that know the way, go the way and show the way 
  • A workflow that manages risk and maximises opportunity
  • A purpose that accelerates growth 
  • A personalised mission statement 
  • A smarter business 
  • Synergies and opportunities from failures 
  • Environments where people can be human and thrive 

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