This one runs as a masterclass: Laura Giurge takes your colleagues through the research and the thinking behind it, with live questions throughout.
Laura M. Giurge is an award-winning organizational scholar and behavioral scientist, and an assistant professor at the London School of Economics. Dr Giurge holds a PhD in management from Erasmus University’s Rotterdam School of Management and has been a postdoctoral research fellow at Cornell University and London Business School. In 2019 and 2020 she was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Business School. Her research has been published in top academic journals in management and psychology as well as in leading media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Harvard Business Review.
All sessions by Laura →Work innovations such as ubiquitous communication technology, alternative work arrangements, and hyper-efficiency are revolutionizing our work experiences, making it easier to share information, collaborate with others, and achieve more with less effort. At the same time, it has become increasingly difficult to draw boundaries between work and other aspects of our lives.
On an individual level, working one extra hour one day might not seem hugely problematic, but when amplified across time, failure to disconnect from work carries enormous costs to individuals and society at large. In this interaction session you will learn about some of the hidden and unintended costs of work innovations such as increased work flexibility.
You will also get insights into how employees and leaders can co-create a better future of work where work innovations benefit both performance and well-being.
During the expert session, Laura Giurge engages the audience through methods like a Q&A session, live demonstrations using slides, and interactive exercises where she asks the audience to share their experiences and hobbies outside of work. She discusses the importance of rethinking work innovations for our well-being and productivity, including the impact of email communication on productivity and work-life balance.
Laura also shares strategies to manage urgent and important tasks effectively, introducing the concept of "time crafting" for creating temporal boundaries to pursue essential tasks with focus.
In today's knowledge economy, focusing on strategic tasks that have the most significant impact on your goals is essential for both personal and organizational success. This includes completing complex projects, engaging in meaningful social interactions with colleagues, and pushing forward on big objectives.
In a fast-paced work environment, it's common to engage in counterproductive behaviors due to time biases and overload. To manage your time more effectively, consider practices like "time crafting," which involves proactively creating temporal boundaries to focus on non-urgent but essential tasks.
Email communication can negatively impact productivity and work-life balance due to the pressure to respond immediately. To reduce stress and improve communication, make expectations explicit by adding notes or marking emails as low urgency.
Being mindful about signaling both high and low expectations is essential for effective email communication.
In this expert session, Assistant Professor Laura Giurge from the London School of Economics discusses the importance of rethinking innovations in the future of work for our well-being and productivity. She begins by sharing her background and introducing the topic of how careers have evolved, highlighting the significance of hobbies outside of work for our overall health.
Laura then introduces the trend towards more flexible work schedules, using an example of a job offer that allows employees to set their own hours while maintaining a 40-hour workweek. She presents research suggesting that while flexibility is desirable, it can negatively impact intrinsic motivation for work due to societal norms and expectations.
Furthermore, Laura discusses the negative impact of email communication on our productivity and work-life balance. She shares her personal experience of feeling anxious about responding to emails immediately, even when they are non-urgent or sent outside of working hours.
According to research, receivers feel pressure to respond much faster than senders expect, leading to stress and performing costs.
To address this issue, Laura suggests that senders can make their expectations explicit by adding notes or marking emails as low urgency. She emphasizes the importance of being mindful about signaling both high and low expectations and making them explicit to others.
Moving on to productivity, Laura argues that in today's knowledge economy, work quality is not easily measurable by the number of hours worked or time spent at the office. Instead, focusing on priority tasks and achieving progress towards goals can have a significant impact on both personal and organizational success.
However, factors such as technology-induced distractions and committing to too many future tasks can prevent us from focusing on these essential tasks.
To maximize productivity, Laura suggests minimizing distractions, making time for deep work, and prioritizing tasks that have the most significant impact on our goals. Some examples of priority tasks include completing complex projects, strategic planning, performance development, pushing forward on big goals, answering deliverables or plans for the day, and engaging in meaningful social interactions with colleagues.
Laura also introduces the concept of "time crafting," a proactive form of work redesign where individuals create temporal boundaries to pursue important tasks. This intervention includes planning, reflecting, and scheduling focus time for non-urgent but essential tasks while protecting focus time from interruptions and distractions.
The results of the study showed that employees who engaged in time crafting reported an increase in perceived performance, decreased burnout, and improved objective productivity. To experience these benefits, individuals need to feel supported by their team, leaders, and peers in engaging in this different way of working.
Laura concludes by suggesting a team activity called "work with me" to help understand and coordinate around individuals' working styles and preferences.
No prior knowledge is assumed. It is built for a general working audience, and people who already know the subject get the research and the practical side rather than an introduction. What the hour itself covers: Work innovations such as ubiquitous communication technology, alternative work arrangements, and hyper-efficiency are revolutionizing our work experiences, making it easier to share information, collaborate with others, and achieve more with less effort. At the same time, it has become increasingly difficult to draw...
A masterclass. Laura Giurge takes your colleagues through the subject and the reasoning behind it, and answers live questions. It is practical in what people take away, without the hour turning into an exercise class.
Laura Giurge is one of the experts we auditioned ourselves, and we produce every session so we see how each one lands. Participants rate this session 4.3 out of 5, across 12 responses, and rate Laura personally 4.5 out of 5.
It is interactive, and the block higher up on this page says exactly how for this session. Nobody has to speak up who does not want to: the chat and the polls carry most of it, and the questions can come in anonymously.
It runs 45 min / 15 min: the talk, then live questions. All you do is pick a date. We brief Laura, produce the session, host and moderate it, run the Q&A, and send you the report within an hour of the end.
A team, a department, an employee network or every single employee at once, with no cap and no per-seat price. It runs inside your own Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Google Meet, or on a branded page we build. No integration, no login, no company device or e-mail.
The session is delivered in English, German. You can add high accuracy live subtitles in 8, 16 or 24 languages, so everyone follows in their own. That is a paid option, priced by the number of languages you need.
No, and that is by design. There is nothing to install, nothing to integrate and no connection to your systems, so there is nothing for IT to validate: we join your own Teams, Zoom or Meet as a guest speaker, or we host a page and your people open a link. No software, no accounts, and no data of yours that we can reach. It is why hundreds of companies, among them some of the largest technology and financial firms in the world, were able to start within a day.
We never receive or hold personal data about your employees. Because the session runs in your own environment, attendance and identity stay with you, and what we report back is aggregated: numbers, ratings and survey answers, not people. That is also why IT approval usually takes minutes rather than weeks.
You keep the recording and can share it internally. You also get attendance over time, participant ratings for the content and the speaker, the survey answers, and the topics your people asked for next.
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