Avi Arya explains why talented people are leaving agencies after COVID. He argues managers need to adopt a "family first leader" approach to build belonging and keep employees engaged, sharing lessons from his own experience.
Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Avi Arya and I bring this short video to all of you managers and leaders because I know somewhere you are concerned. Concerned for every single employee, manager and leader in your company. For all of us are recalibrating and trying to refine connections within our own families. Why is it that most leaders say that in my company I'm not being able to find people coming back to work full time? Why is it the hybrid model is broken? Because every single human being wants to belong and re belong. They want to connect and reconnect, plug and replug and understand what fits, what's working, what's not. But the world has started after Covid. Thank you God. But the world has started very fast and we're allowed and urged to come back to work super fast. There are so many deadlines on our table. The world and human beings today and your employees are finding it difficult to be able to find this new work life balance. My name is ABHI Arya. Father of two girls, six dogs, husband to a superwoman, a streetcar racer turned hotelier, now social media marketer and founder of Internet mobile. I found it difficult for myself and my own team and all the teams and corporation that I teach and train and coach. I found it difficult for their teams to belong. So I started on a mission a few years ago. I called it the family first leader where I said, let me lead by example. My daughters and I embarked on this entrepreneurship journey. Raya was then 17, Aviana was 14. And we started to reach out to 200 entrepreneurs around the world to interview them for our YouTube channel and create a book around it to reach out to 200 busy executives. Took us two years. 62 people said yes. And that gave birth to a book called the Internet Moguls of the World and a podcast and a YouTube channel and we sold 8,100 copies. My girls today are entrepreneurs. They are authors. But more importantly for all of you people, this message is that all of you people can find a project that allows you to become a family first leader. And for all of you corporations out there, if you are able to enable your teams to become family first leaders, they will become happier. They will come back to work with more gumpshoot, more gasto. The smile on the face will come back. There are ways to re belong to the whole society at large today. And I would offer to come and speak at your next event to talk to every single person in your company to be able to tell them how they too can enjoy being a family first leader. You become a family first leader and you can come back to your workspace happier, more productive and achieve your dreams and that of your companies. So every company has a dream, every company has a mission. And every company has employees. And every company has a family. Can all of us belong together again? I think it's time. I'd love to come and explore the model of the family first leader with all of you people. Thank you very much for listening to my video. I look forward to talking at your next event. This is Avi Arya signing off for now.
