Business centers are most often associated with big business, daily rush and quarterly, semi-annual and annual plans. Centers are also associated with professionals who must be able to find themselves perfectly in these realities and achieve their goals. None other than team leaders are responsible for the company’s results, so they are the ones who have the greatest pressure: superiors on the one hand, and subordinates on the other, who also constitute a very diverse environment, and a manager should have the competence to manage such diverse groups of employees.
Team leaders are the most important group in any organization. They create its culture, it depends on them how those who actually perform tasks work and how they feel. According to recent research – a relationship with a boss is more important for mental health than a relationship with friends!
Still, many studies related to mental health and workplace sentiment focus on employees and much less on managers. The available data shows that being a boss is significantly physically exhausting and mentally taxing. Managing people is often overwhelming and can be a source of great stress. The research also shows that as many as 30% of people quit their jobs within 3 months of being promoted.
Meanwhile, happy leaders are a prerequisite for building teams consisting of happy subordinates. This means only one thing – leaders need and should be given time, it is worth developing, training and making them aware. Business centers, being a kind of hubs, gathering not only employees, but also numerous managerial staff, are an excellent environment for the exchange of experiences, skills and cooperation for the development of both professional groups. Just as employees share their insights, experiences, and ideas on how to deal with the realities of working in corporations on Internet forums or trainings, managers can also think about cooperation and exchange knowledge in the field of managing teams of employees. However, this happens much less often than in the case of employees.
“Like many areas of life, team management has undergone a major transformation in recent years ,” emphasizes Remigiusz Wojciechowski, Enterprise Support Solutions Leader at Bayer GBS. Founder of Bayer GBS Gdańsk. – This is due to the changes in the work model from strictly office to hybrid, as well as in connection with the entry of a new generation into the labor market – Genration Z, which has a fundamentally different approach to work than previous generations. These are challenges that managers must be able to meet, and they should also be accompanied by the volatility of the economic situation, as well as new challenges that we have not faced before, such as the greater use of artificial intelligence at work. These challenges require managers to constantly adapt their tasks to the changing reality and training to help develop new competences. In my opinion, it is very important to base your own development on interesting examples and experiences of other managers, also during workshops, where you have the opportunity to work side by side with leaders facing similar challenges.
Olivia Centre Gdańsk is the largest and most modern business centre in Poland. Its area is currently 175 thousand m.kw, and ultimately it will significantly exceed 200 thousand m.kw. Olivia’s largest residents are Amazon, Bayer, Capgemini, Energa, EPAM, Fujifilm, Lyreco, Medicover, Nike, Nordea, PwC, Ricoh, Sii, thyssenkrupp, which is why it is a unique community of practitioners who can cooperate for self-development and mutual competence support. It was only a matter of time until such a forum for the exchange of knowledge was created in Gdańsk.
– With this in mind, the idea of a new conference called LEADWELL, prepared by the O4 coworking team with Olivia Centre, was created – says Martyna Czarnobaj-Borowska, from the O4 Coworking team. – On the wave of the ubiquitous discussion about well-being, we decided to move away from the recurring free fruit, benefits or integration trips and focus on what is really important. On leaders and leadership .
Olivia Centre is also the seat of the organizer of InfoShare and Infoshare Academy: Both of our projects give us access to a huge resource of knowledge about the current situation of managers, the challenges they have to face, as well as the changes that are sweeping through the industry – says Grzegorz Borowski, co-founder of InfoShare. Thanks to this, I am aware of the unique moment in which we all find ourselves and I am glad that a forum for the exchange of experiences between representatives of different environments and the possibility of cooperation is being created. I believe that such exchange and activity will allow each participant to build new competences and develop interesting methods of dealing with current challenges .
The project is an opportunity to use the knowledge of many practitioners and an opportunity to exchange experiences in the form of joint workshops. Perhaps it will also be a hint on how to build a community in the business center, not only at the level of employees, but also of the management staff, who benefit from being present in this or that facility. Such initiatives can also benefit employees, whose supervisors will gain new competences and will be more aware of market transformations and their related needs in the field of personal development.
The conference will take place on November 7, and all the details can be found on the leadwell.pl website
