38: Can performance vocabulary be a competitive advantage for businesses? A conversation with Maya Sadasivan

38: Can performance vocabulary be a competitive advantage for businesses? A conversation with Maya Sadasivan:

'Performance Vocabulary' is it just jargon? Or does it serve a purpose?

The pandemic has forever transformed how we live and work, it has already thrown out of the window traditional wisdom that workers need to be in the workplace to be productive. The only certainty in today's world is the uncertainty. In this uncertain environment, businesses are having to rethink ways to being able to deliver effectively on their financial goals, have a highly motivated workforce, happy customers and also meet broader societal expectations. All this while navigating a world in a constant state of flux.

The reality is that across the world many employers are also getting ready to get back to in-person work; but all employees are not. We are all trying to process new ways of working and also evaluating our relationship with work. It also does not make it easy that different countries are at different stages of the risk mitigation journey i.e. their vaccine programme; rates of infection; government advisory etc. The expectation of employers and employees also differs from country to country and across generational divide. There are no homogenous groups that are for in-person or those against.

This may lead to different levels of engagement or dis-engagement or productivity or lack of if, which in turn is likely to impact motivation/morale and ultimately bottomline. In such scenarios what can organisations do to build a cohesive culture of performance - at the individual employee level but also at the broader organisational level?

In the 38th episode of #TheElephantintheRoom podcast I spoke with Maya Sadasivan a leadership coach about the evolving role of managers and teams within an organisations and also performance vocabulary.