Well-being is a portmanteau word that refers to the concept of happiness and harmony. In business, people feel a certain sense of well-being when they feel good about themselves and enjoy living together.

I think that today you can’t separate well-being from motivation. Motivation in the company is a vital obligation. But motivation is a triptych: the pleasure to do, the desire to succeed, and the desire to progress.

The vital energy of the individual, his physical and mental form, his psychological influence are directly linked to the quality of the relationship with his physical and relational environment.

The relationship with others is also the main energy resource. There are two types of links: positive relationships, sources of energy, pleasure, trust, and, ultimately, well-being and strength, then negative relationships that bring only doubt. , questions, stress, and, ultimately, discomfort and fragility.

When there is pleasure, the individual is radiant, all of their abilities are activated. When the relationship with the company is negative, the individual is inhibited, becomes ill, his capacities are paralyzed, his pleasure decreases and becomes null. The failure is registered.

Release happiness:

For a business, growth is intelligence, the creation of wealth. To make a profit, you need happy customers and to do this you need happy employees. It is in difficult times or times of crisis that we must unleash happiness.

Hence the obligation for the company to take into account how it must ensure working conditions, employment, remuneration, social dialogue, and societal requirements that are as efficient as possible, that is to say, state all the parameters that contribute to the well-being of individuals at work while being aware that professional commitment positively impacts the quality of personal life which, in return, influences the quality of the work performed.

In the old world, well-being, happiness in business, were concepts that did not appear in the collective consciousness as engines of performance. Technological advances were complementary to human labor.

The promise of material prosperity, progress, and economic growth created a hierarchical, vertical society where everyone was in their place but could dream of having, a few years later, the same rate of material equipment and the same train. of life than the one who commanded them.

This economic promise guaranteed a more comfortable future than that of previous generations and allowed them to rise above their original condition.

Today, place the human factor:

Since then, we have changed the world. Today, we are living through a change of era crossed by the profound ruptures represented by the advent of digital technology, the energy transition, climate change, generational leaps, and the tremendous acceleration of time. We are in the midst of a turmoil that will not end tomorrow.

It is an unprecedented industrial revolution that gave birth to globalized generations, bottle-fed in digital sauce, rendering obsolete all the economic, social, societal, and environmental models that had until then structured our modern world.

We have gone from a stable world to a mobile world, from an obedient society to a society hungry for freedom, from a predictable universe to a highly unpredictable one.

The problem is that in an unpredictable or crisis, motivational returns are decreasing in intensity and duration. With the arrival of digital technology, the new hyper-connected generations, known as “Millennials”, do not have the same relationship with the company as their elders.

The immediacy of information, the multiplicity of sharing networks make it difficult for individuals to concentrate for a long time and tend to reject verticality.

They are less attached to the company, are fond of areas of progress and freedom, and only accept a certain side-by-side hierarchy if it brings them well-being in the present and makes them progress rapidly towards their professional and personal ideal.

This means that the human factor will crystallize all the attention because the generation gap with the old world is dizzying. A new relational mode has to be invented.

It is no longer the culture of submission that prevails but that of collaboration, openness, interconnection, agility.

Change must take place in four areas: business success, social and societal advancement, teamwork, personal growth. All this with clear objectives, optimal working conditions, and systems that operate at the best cost.

It is a question of reviewing the organizations which must now be based on a team structure and more on a basic structure of the individual.

This allows better flexibility and therefore better adaptation to changes in the environment.

Management must make the company a place of well-being; it is the only place where the individual can develop his talents and find his fulfillment.

In the months and years to come, the company will have to install the new generations on a trajectory that encourages benevolence without disqualifying virtuous demands, authorizes the release of energies, opens spaces for progress and freedom, creates harmony daily and brings the hope of a successful life.

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