Well-being and Engagement in Hybrid Work Environments

This paper explores how working from home has impacted leaders and the workforce in corporate environments during the pandemic, how these experiences might influence the workplace of the future, and what role coaching could play to foster skill development in the 21st century workplace. Before the p...

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Main Author: Ute Franzen-Waschke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pact4Youth Association 2021-12-01
Series:GiLE Journal of Skills Development
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Online Access:https://gjsd.gile-edu.org/index.php/home/article/view/31
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description This paper explores how working from home has impacted leaders and the workforce in corporate environments during the pandemic, how these experiences might influence the workplace of the future, and what role coaching could play to foster skill development in the 21st century workplace. Before the pandemic, plenty of research had already been done on what factors influence well-being and engagement in the workplace. Models explaining the elements of well-being and engagement, as well as, tools to measure their existence or the lack of have been reviewed, tested, and validated. We know little at this point about what combinations of factors caused the decline in well-being and engagement during the pandemic, and what skills in leaders, or requirements for the workplace would be necessary to hone and implement, to improve the situation of well-being and engagement in future work environments. This paper explores how coaching could support leaders in the 21st century workplace. The business world is facing challenges while moving into post-pandemic workplace scenarios. The plurality of interests increases the complexity of the topic. The literature on well-being and engagement has been reviewed. Data that was collected during the pandemic by different organisations and conclusions drawn from these were compared with what the literature says and it was combined with experiences the author made in the field while coaching leaders and their teams in corporate environments during the pandemic. This paper concludes with a recommendation on how to enhance coaching skills among leaders and to build their knowledge and literacy in the field of coaching, to result in positive effects on workplace well-being and engagement in contemporary work environments.
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spelling doaj.art-28db33b4d37b40fc8b3969f674b77a162024-02-03T11:45:33ZengPact4Youth AssociationGiLE Journal of Skills Development2732-37812021-12-0112829810.52398/gjsd.2021.v1.i2.pp82-9831Well-being and Engagement in Hybrid Work EnvironmentsUte Franzen-Waschke0Business English & CultureThis paper explores how working from home has impacted leaders and the workforce in corporate environments during the pandemic, how these experiences might influence the workplace of the future, and what role coaching could play to foster skill development in the 21st century workplace. Before the pandemic, plenty of research had already been done on what factors influence well-being and engagement in the workplace. Models explaining the elements of well-being and engagement, as well as, tools to measure their existence or the lack of have been reviewed, tested, and validated. We know little at this point about what combinations of factors caused the decline in well-being and engagement during the pandemic, and what skills in leaders, or requirements for the workplace would be necessary to hone and implement, to improve the situation of well-being and engagement in future work environments. This paper explores how coaching could support leaders in the 21st century workplace. The business world is facing challenges while moving into post-pandemic workplace scenarios. The plurality of interests increases the complexity of the topic. The literature on well-being and engagement has been reviewed. Data that was collected during the pandemic by different organisations and conclusions drawn from these were compared with what the literature says and it was combined with experiences the author made in the field while coaching leaders and their teams in corporate environments during the pandemic. This paper concludes with a recommendation on how to enhance coaching skills among leaders and to build their knowledge and literacy in the field of coaching, to result in positive effects on workplace well-being and engagement in contemporary work environments.https://gjsd.gile-edu.org/index.php/home/article/view/31well-beingengagementhybrid workleadershipcoaching21st-century skills
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Well-being and Engagement in Hybrid Work Environments
GiLE Journal of Skills Development
well-being
engagement
hybrid work
leadership
coaching
21st-century skills
title Well-being and Engagement in Hybrid Work Environments
title_full Well-being and Engagement in Hybrid Work Environments
title_fullStr Well-being and Engagement in Hybrid Work Environments
title_full_unstemmed Well-being and Engagement in Hybrid Work Environments
title_short Well-being and Engagement in Hybrid Work Environments
title_sort well being and engagement in hybrid work environments
topic well-being
engagement
hybrid work
leadership
coaching
21st-century skills
url https://gjsd.gile-edu.org/index.php/home/article/view/31
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