Session Focus: Where is Your Worknet? Skillset, Mindset, Toolset, The Next Rules of Work with Gary Bolles

 It’s no longer about best practices; the world benefits from NEXT Practices.

  A conversation and Q&A with Gary Bolles, who spent the last year meeting with leaders and organizations across the globe discussing the findings in his book, The Next Rules of Work. During his round-the-globe trip, much of it in person, Gary started designing “The Next Rules of Work Plus.” That is what happens when the feedback and questions you receive along the way build upon your body of work.

This session will kick off with a firestarter talk that includes what he learned from real-life applications of his model, followed by a few questions, and then the gates are open to your questions. Gary will be available for 30 minutes or more to your questions.

💥 Watch Internal Talent Marketplaces are the Tip of the Iceberg. “To move to a skill-based enterprise, you need to rewrite all the rules of an organization”–Ravin Jesuthasan. 

 

Gary discovered:

✅ Multiple case studies of organizations and municipalities have applied some new rules. He will share a few.

✅ Followers of the “Next Rules” embrace a different mindset. Individual workers contribute creative solutions to complex problems and pursue their responsibilities.

✅ Employees no longer focus only on completing predictable assignments. Modern employees mix and match the stability of a day job, the uncertainty of gig work, and the gamble of launching a start-up.

✅ Managers no longer act as the center of all workplace knowledge. Instead, they’re guides (coaches) who help workers achieve their goals.

✅ Frontline employees act as co-equal teammates – partners in a fluid and flexible business environment.

 

About the Author:
Gary A. Bolles, chair of the future of work at Singularity University and a partner at Charette LLC, a San Francisco consulting firm, co-founded eParachute.com – inspired by his father’s best-selling classic, What Color Is Your Parachute?

If you are looking for skills-based conversation starter tools for frontline managers, the “Flower Exercise” is a popular tool from Gary’s father’s book. Click here to download as a PDF excerpt from “What Color Is Your Parachute? 2014” by Richard N. Bolles.