LEARNING MINDFULNESS or HAVING BEAUTIFUL OFFICES is not enough to prevent rising levels of burnout or to achieve balanced lives when you want to enjoy both personal and professional aspects without having to choose between them. Of course, these elements bring benefits, but they are not sufficient.
Experience shows that everything comes down to truly learning how to organize ourselves. Moreover, this becomes a cultural issue within organizations: if there is no top-down change, it will be impossible to combat excessive workloads and stress. And even more so, achieving balance in certain personal or professional circumstances will remain out of reach.
There is a solution, but it requires a transformation both at the individual and group levels, based on a shared method. This method is something that can be learned, internalized, and adapted, bringing changes to personal and collective ways of working. Step by step, progress is made at every level of the organization.
This is exactly what we have been leading with PEPSICO and the FASE METHOD in recent years—helping to overcome this challenge:
- We don’t really know how to organize ourselves. This is a gap in the education system, much like the lack of emotional education in the past.
- Technology was meant to help, but it only does so when used correctly. For many, it has become the opposite: a time thief and a source of bad habits.
The new way of organizing ourselves to become more effective, according to the FASE METHOD, involves introducing new behaviors. Over time, these behaviors turn into habits and routines that sustain an effective way of working in the long run. At its core, it is a shift in individual identity. On a business level, this leads to a collective transformation that impacts the organization’s culture—just as we have seen at PEPSICO.
It’s a process similar to adopting exercise and healthy eating. At first, it starts with new behaviors, such as saying: I work out. Over time, as these behaviors become habits, it turns into: I am an athlete.
The same applies to organization and effectiveness.
We’ll be discussing this and much more at the event on October 15 at 09:30. If you’d like to attend, send us an email at gabriela@agustinperalt.es.
