S1 Episode 8: The Future of People Management with Dr Lynn Gribble

The Actionable Futurist® Podcast

In Episode 8 we speak with Dr. Lynn Gribble, who is one of Australia’s founding coaches, an accidental academic and an award-winning author and university lecturer.
She’s known as a digital innovator for her work in technology-enabled academia and she calls herself a “pragmatic futurist coach”. She also helps people to “future proof” their careers in an ever-evolving workplace.
We spoke with Lynn from Sydney, Australia where she lives and works.
We discussed a range of topics relevant to companies of any size including:

• The future of work is about relationships
• Do people want to be managed in the digital age?
• Managing the circumstances not the people
• Soft vs disciplinary skills
• We need people to connect people
• What we can't teach AI to do is make a human connection
• People are the only truly sustainable competitive advantage
• What is the future of work?
• People need to be agile and take ownership of their skills development
• Flexibility is the key in the gig economy
• The serviced office of the future
• The one piece of technology that will drive fundamental change
• The digital agent
• Home robots are the hardest workers
• The receptionist of the future
• The stigma of retrenchment
• Managing Millennials
• What ice skating can teach you
• What organisations get wrong
• If you punish risk you will get no innovation
• Are we addressing ethics in business?
• The link between risk and ethics
• What 3 things can you do next week?
• 1. Build relationships not networks
• 2. Take a small risk & do something new
• 3. How can I be kinder & more connected to colleagues?

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