Ashish Kothari argues that collecting more engagement data won't improve workplace culture. Instead, focus on simplifying metrics, increasing accountability, and using frequent cycles to make engagement a team-level tool grounded in trust.
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If we look at the state of flourishing at work today, 20% of people are thriving, 22% are burnt out, 60% experience stress daily. Only 19% of people in the front line find meaning at work. You know, our workplaces have become one of suffering rather than flourishing. What do you think is going.
Wrong? I think we often make the mistake that the more data we collect, the more scientific we're being in our approach, which I actually beg to differ with. I think if we're going to get better at this is simplify dramatically the number of things that we're measuring and collecting data on and increase dramatically the level of accountability that we're holding people to for actually addressing and improving those things. We can do that. We'll make much more progress than measuring 100 things and making no progress at any of them.
Yeah, we are so like minded on this and that's a little bit of the journey that we are on. The third thing we are kind of also integrating with more frequent cycles and accountability is actually putting the onus like we do in manufacturing our transformations or digital transformations with the team. Rather than make engagement be an evaluative score, make it a tool where as a team, and again it goes to the foundation of trust. Because a lot of people say yeah, but are people going to really tell you what they think? Well, if you have trust that you're collecting this data to help each other flourish and rise to the challenge of the performance through well being. Yes. If you don't, then no, people are not going to do it. Right.
