The Next Workplace Evolution

Seeing our thoughts crystallize into form!

Some days are amazing gifts from God. Today was one of them! This morning’s call with the founding partners of our organizational consulting business, Workplace Evolution, was a remarkable think-tank. It didn’t start out with that intention but that’s what occurred. As we talked about emerging trends—what will soon be the new business paradigms—magic stepped into the conversation.

Prior to the economic meltdown, statistics pointed to an upcoming labor shortage. Stats said that in ten years the U.S. business community would find themselves short 10 million employees with the retirement of the Boomers and the birth-dearth of the following generation. Quite a number ... even if, owing to finances, less of us actually retire! If we stay and work simply because of money, a different scenario emerges that will require creative and innovative management to activate employee passion and productivity. It’s staggering when the implications are understood...regardless of which scenario plays out. Businesses that evolve and learn how to engage the whole individual will get to pass on the going out of business sale. They will be able to attract, retain and cultivate talent. Our founder's conversation today dealt with how employee’s options will change.

The energy of the conversation was light and open to possibility. We each honored our collective visioning process as well as the unique perspective and experience each one of us brings to our dialogues. Ideas, based on a single observation, quickly expanded into insights none of us alone could have imagined.

The influence of Generation X and Y will be dramatic even though the full impact may face a slight delay. This generation of workers will at last demand work-life balance and have it in their power to see it become reality. Many of these internet-reared individuals see the potential for balance in contract work, no fear of, rather an ability to embrace and seek out month(s) long breaks, the possibilities presented by technology for long-distance work situations and with that, the various means for creative workspace and time. These workers walk to a different drummer than the one to which their parents walked. With the sheer power of absent numbers, they will be able to rewrite the rules of business. This trend is already beginning to take shape amongst women executives who have left their jobs, knowing there had to be something better than this. These women left in hope that meaning and purpose existed out there somewhere and had the personal confidence to go in search of it.

It was synergy at its finest, but not the magic I alluded to in the first paragraph. That was to come later. The conversation was one of those meetings of mind and heart that you don’t want to stop, regardless of time and schedules. You aren’t having it—it is having you! In the business world, it would be called a rare moment. For us, it is normal, not expected, but a natural outcome of our connectivity and unity. Conversations become communion and through communion move into the spaciousness of natural flow. We hold the space for just that to occur on a regular day-to-day basis. That is how we continue to evolve in our work together, how we attract clients capable of hearing this new paradigm and how we each commit to living our lives. We make room each moment for the miraculous to occur, recognizing that what most call miraculous is how all of life can work—effortless, inspired, connected.

As our conversation began to wind down, having completed its natural rhythm, the magic occurred. It was so amazing that I didn’t realize, until afterwards, what had just transpired. When you do this work, Source begins to communicate with you from a different place, with new, uncommon words and symbols. It doesn’t come from a place of mind. It just appears with absolute knowingness that this is so. We had been talking about finding the right clients to share our work with and show how much fun they can have playing and working in the flow. As we talked I felt a wide-energetic field that quickly narrowed into the point of an arrow, an arrow that was swiftly moving into the physical plane. The picture that simultaneously accompanied it was of jumping onto the shaft of the arrow and riding it into its full expression on earth. Our thoughts about the perfect clients had narrowed into physical reality and were about to be born. Nothing more was required.

I had been blessed to see thought crystallize as reality. It was an awe-inspiring experience. I have known for a long time, intellectually and emotionally, how to manifest on this plane. With this experience, it moved from intellect to an energetic cellular knowing. Our thoughts truly do become our reality. The importance of my work, and our work together, of helping people clearly see their thoughts and fears, was driven home with the pulsing energetic breath of God.