3 Trends in Human Behaviour Impacting The Future of Work

One of the major aspects of being future ready as a leader, team or entrepreneur is to keep an ear to the ground as to trends or signals of shifts in human behavior.

Here are 3 Trends that can help you to anticipate the future and ‘create the solutions’.

Trend #1 – People are getting more impatient and demanding faster response time in every area of their lives.

• As a leader are you delaying responses to team members?
• As a team member are you delaying or procrastinating your part of a project and impacting team performance?
• As an entrepreneur are you expecting the customer to simply adapt to the way YOU run your business?
• Are you leveraging technology to provide real time ‘response’ in your absence such as chat? AI customer chat bot? Texting? Real time instant messaging?

Trend #2 – Video is ubiquitous and has been accelerating however the trend towards ‘everything’ being captured is rapidly increasing.

• Are you aware of your behavior in every situation and that you could be videotaped?
• As a leader are you leveraging video to communicate with your remote workers and to engage your teams?
• As a team member are you creatively leveraging video to share knowledge or transfer legacy information in the business?
• As an entrepreneur are you using video to both engage and explain your products and services in a new and compelling way?

Trend #3 – People will increasingly be inundated with massive information and therefore the trend towards providing simple solutions and making people’s lives easier is going to continue.

• As a leader are you helping your teams to take speedy action by providing visual interpretations of complex ideas? For example, infographics or dashboards are the communication tool of choice for people wanting to maximize time.
• As a team member are you thinking of creative ways to simplify processes, meetings or team collaborations?
• As an entrepreneur are you seeking to solve the problems of your clients in a simple way and are you helping your clients to make informed and fast choices?

A major factor in being future ready is the ability to ‘anticipate’ and then seek to create the future of work.