Future of offices after COVID? Why physical meetings will still matter, face-to-face deal-making and change management, impact on office occupancy, workplace redesign, future of virtual teams and global events. Companies need to MEET to THRIVE

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What will happen to the workplace beyond COVID? Over the past few months / years I have delivered a large number of virtual keynotes for global corporations, with up to 800,000 on a single live event  - and everyone is now asking about the same thing.  

What is the future of offices?  Do we still need the same office capacity? Will teams go back to commuting to work, or remain virtual working most of the time?  How much office space will we really need post-COVID?  And what will happen to corporate events?

I have been forecasting global trends for over 25 years now, working with hundreds of the world's largest corporations, who invest billions of dollars each year in offices and expensive HQs. History shows that most major historic events almost always turn out to have smaller long term significance than people usually think at the time.

Most debates about the future in board meetings are NOT about what is going to happen, which is usually obvious to those in a particular industry, but are issues of timing - by when. COVID has accelerated many pungent term workplace trends.

So what does all this mean for workplace management, human resources, leadership development, change management, virtual working, distance learning, agile decision-making?

* "How AI Will Change your life - A Futurist's Guide to a Super-Smart World" - Patrick Dixon's latest book on AI is published in September 2024 by Profile Books.  It contains 38 chapters on the impact of AI across different industries, government and our wider world, including impact of AI on the future of work, impact of AI on virtual teams, automation, motivation and career development.

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How to lead highly engaged, high performance teams. Teams with passion and vision: leadership tools, motivation, management. Workplace and Leadership Keynote Speaker

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Life is too short to spend on projects that can't deliver because badly designed don't matter, or with people who will not change or on programmes without real purpose.

Staff engagement -- Gallup research, linked to customer satisfaction, team performance, profits, business growth, reducing staff turnover. How to increase team commitment, loyalty, engagement. How to predict performance of teams -- and manage failing teams to become successful teams. Friendship at work increases team morale, commitment, passion for change. Leadership styles and impact on team performance. Non-hierarchical leadership -- based on personal values, vision, sense of mission.

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How Social Capital will Drive Your Future Business Growth, Staff Retention, Productivity and Customer Loyalty

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Social Capital is all about using the power of relationships and social networks to drive business growth or social transformation.

Recruiting and engaging highly talented teams, as well as new customers or followers who become enthusiastic fans. 

Every decision-maker in business and government needs to understand how to develop their own Social Capital, in an age which is increasingly influenced by social media, viral networks, tribalism and rapid globalisation. 

Need a world-class social capital keynote speaker for your event? Phone or e-mail Patrick Dixon now.

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How to Increase Diversity, and Reduce Staff Turnover in Professional Firms. Recruit and keep the best. Future of Human Resources Keynote Speaker

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Future of Human Resources. How to motivate teams, recruit and retain the best people. How to engage workforce.

Why so many women leave workplace of legal firms and large organisations. Managing two careers in the household.

Why work-life balance matters to leaders and what to do about it: life-life balance. Lessons from non-profit organisations and volunteering.

How to learn more about the real motivation of your team members in 3 minutes than...

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Happynomics - business, wealth and happiness - connecting with purpose and passion at work. Future of Leadership and Human Resources Keynote Speaker

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Happynomics is about the link between wealth and happiness.

Everyone wants to be happy – most advertisers try to persuade us that the secret of happiness is the next thing we will buy. But we know that long lasting happiness usually depends on many deeper things: friendship, strong family relationships, good health, personal fulfilment and so on.

It is hard to be happy if you have many worries about money, too little or too much. In fact great wealth brings many pressures of its own. Happynomics is about the economics of happiness. Contentment can be measured not only in individuals but also in communities, or indeed across entire nations, looking at a national sense of well-being.

On a national level, Happynomics surveys show that happyness is enhanced to varying degrees by wealth, education, peaceful government and trust, but weakened by things like corruption, insecurity and unemployment. Happiness is a dominant concept in marketing, customer loyalty, product design and workplace motivation.

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Getting better balance in your life AND in your teams - at work and home. Work-life time management. Leadership and Human Resources Keynote Speaker

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Relationships and family -- work-life balance is number one or two priority.

Child-care, child support, juggling responsibilities.

Work-life balance surveys, stress on female workers, mothers with young children. Impact of worcoholic parents on family life.

Long hours impact on personal health. Patrick Dixon keynote speaker for Welsh Parliament

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Work-Life Balance: Workplace Survival - Human Resources Keynote Speaker for European Commission

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Why is it that work-life balance is so often talked about, and so little shown?  Work-life balance is the key to developing high-performance teams. Keynote to European Commission.  I have spoken to audiences in over 50 nations about these and other issues, and wherever I go in industrialised nations, people talk about getting a better balance – especially women. Surveys show that work-life balance is number one or two priority for those leaving business schools. In a recent UK survey, 6 out of 10 of 25-35 year olds said they were looking for a higher purpose at work.  The more passionate people are about the work they do, the less they complain about work-life balance.

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How to motivate people to do unpopular jobs - Motivational Leadership - Keynote Speaker for Welsh Parliament

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Example of ServiceMaster -- motivating cleaners, janitors, rest room attendants. How to inspire and motivate people in poorly paid service jobs: encouraging self-confidence, morale, self-esteem.

Show how teams make a difference, save lives, improve the environment. Win war for talent. Believe in your teams. Human resources, recruitment, team management, development and staff training.

Presentation for Welsh Parliament, public sector worker voluntary sector, charities, nurses, doctors, health care workers, council workers. Other themes: leadership, change management, organisation, service delivery and customer satisfaction.

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Career Development - Take Hold of YOUR Future

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Career Advice: Seize Your Destiny - Make a Difference - Find Your Purpose. Motivational Keynote Speaker

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Career advice, personal purpose and fulfillment. Secrets of satisfaction and happiness. Career development, vocation and personal goals. Happynomics is the relationship between economic progress and personal happiness. Secrets of ethical leadership, corporate purpose and business strategy, change management and turning strategy into reality. Small business leadership and multinationals.

Team leadership, organograms and organizational structures. Leadership crisis, and how to develop strong leadership. Motivational leadership, and why motivation matters. Leadership in a crisis. Knowing your destiny. Leadership to command attention, win trust, connect with passion. ...

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How to improve your worklife balance World Women's Day - Workplace Keynote Speaker for European Commission

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Work-life balance -- how to improve balance at work -- lecture on World Women's Day for European Commission by conference keynote speaker Patrick Dixon. Work - life balance now priority for majority of executives in many nations. How to deal with awkward boss -- and get the career balance you want. Barriers to work-life balance. Virtual teams, remote working and homeworkers. How to get better balance in personal and family life. Children and parents. Friends and career direction. Job choices, workplace motivation and winning ...

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Happynomics - media interview on happiness and wealth. How global trends will impact us all - personal lives and careers. How to forecast the future as a Futurist. Patrick Dixon - Keynote Speaker - interview

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Every product and service is sold on a promise: buy this and it will make your life better, easier, more pleasurable and so on. Sadly many businesses are obsessed with making a profit and neglect really thinking about their customers, meeting their needs and seeing life from their point of view. Happynomics raises deeper issues. Satisfying a customer is not the same thing as making them happier. Take for example a medical company offering cosmetic surgery. Their customer may be happy that they delivered on the promise: removed some fat and wrinkles safely at an agreed price without leaving scars. But is she really more contented and fulfilled as a result? Did surgery really transform her whole life?

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Older Workers and Impact on Workplace - Futurist Keynote Speaker

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Older workers: impact of abolishing retirement age and of ageing workforce.

Different priorities and motivations of older and younger workers. How older and younger people respond to change.

Wisdom and experience at work and how some employers have targetted older workers to provide better service. How older people often sacrifice themselves for younger generations.

Older consumers and customers – and the importance of family in their spending decisions.

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Virtual Teams Save Time and Energy - Workplace Revolution - what it all means for the future of offices. Human Resources and Workplace Keynote Speaker

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Written in 2009 - anticipating future workplace trends very accurately.  

Life’s too short to travel to every meeting and the latest technology really makes you feel you are all together.   Three dimensional images can also be created of conference speakers for larger audiences, walking life-size on stage. Over 25% of many corporation’s carbon footprint is travel and air travel is a significant element of this.  If a third of business travel could be turned into virtual meetings, it would reduce annual global emissions of CO2 by over 120 million tons. Many business leaders are already spending up to six weeks a year cruising at 35,000 feet.  What happens in the next three to five years?

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"Friday Night feeling"? FED UP with your job? Job satisfaction, motivation - tips for team leaders. Workplace and Leadership Keynote Speaker

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Improve job satisfaction and staff engagement in your teams. Surveys of motivation, workplace engagement, wanting to find purpose at work. Mid-life crisis, passion for work, work-life balance and family life, hobbies, personal interests.

Satisfaction and morale at work in public satisfaction. Public sector workers, business workplace and lessons for leaders, team managers. Video by Patrick Dixon, conference keynote speaker for Welsh Parliament public sector workers, doctors, nurses, council workers, teachers, non-profit workers, social workers. Human resources. Management training programme.

Connect with passion -- mind, body and spirit. Passion to make a difference.

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