Inkwhy Updates - Currnt Trends, Visionary Events, Women's Entrepreneurship Day Rhode Island Launch

By Janice Dru-Bennett
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Starting off the month with announcements on what's trending in the Currnt "Global Work-From-Home" expert panel, Visionary's upcoming events (including the Princeton Tigers Arranged Meetings model that will be shared on November 4th aligning with Princeton University's first Innovation and Entrepreneurship Conference: Engage 2020. Finally, plans are coming together for the first Rhode Island celebration of Women's Entrepreneurship Day on November 19th!

Facilitating "The Global Work-from-Home Experience: Trends, Tools and Best Practices" Currnt expert panel, we will also publish a digital report on this past week's interactions, with these summary insights:

1. Various trends to explore during the work-from-home era include creating work-life balance among remote workers, how to improve networking and trusted relationships.
   
2. Innovative technology such as AI could help make the remote office environment more natural, and understanding that people work differently with different digital backgrounds and experiences.
   
3. Subjects of inclusivity, equality, and discrimination are also relevant topics, considering people who are in blue collar vs. white collar jobs and impact on DEI as it relates to remote work.
   
4. Additional trends include "real" changes to productivity, age differences, how we interact with technology, remote meeting effectiveness, mental/emotional balance, effect on teamwork, creativity, etc.

Building Trusted Relationships While WFH
Trust is an essential ingredient of any good working relation. Many elements of trust building and maintaining are tied into all sorts of work and social rituals like meetings, coffee, social drinks/gathering.
- Bart Groenewoud

Well-being initiatives with a remote workforce
Well-being in the workplace is increasingly recognised as being of key strategic importance for a successful business. But, it is increasingly difficult for leaders to protect and promote employee wellbeing.
- Joanne Roxburgh

Bridging the gap between digital generations
Younger generations can be considered digital natives: they’ve never known a world that was not connected and they use all devices with intuitive ease. How do bridge the gap for inclusivity and productivity?
- Bart Groenewoud

Apply to join the expert panel, to share your thought leadership with others:

- CIOs
- Distance Learning Experts
- COOs
- Corporate Strategy
- Workforce Experts
- Remote Working Technologists
- Health and Wellness Experts (Ergonomics)
- HR Experts

Look forward to meeting folks virtually in upcoming events, as well as discussing next week's Currnt topic as it relates to health and wellness for remote workers!