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If we do not begin a process of preventive care to improve relationships between employees, organizations might find themselves in serious difficulty in the coming years.
The intensification of narrow egoism among employees will lead to a deterioration in their relationships to such an extent that people will hardly “see” their colleagues at all. Each person will focus only on the personal task they must complete, without interest in what happened before or what will happen afterward. The distance, lack of connection, and lack of understanding among employees will significantly affect productivity and the ability to develop new initiatives.
Already today, relationships marked by disrespect and rudeness between colleagues and managers have become commonplace. Beyond harming organizational culture, employee satisfaction and motivation are also strongly connected to organizational performance. When employees become frustrated, the organization’s profits decline, its image deteriorates, and cases of employees harming the organization intentionally through fraud and theft also increase.
The crisis in the workplace will accompany employees into the family unit as well, introducing pressure, impatience, and frustration into their personal lives. The myriad problems at home will strongly affect employees at work. Their approach to life, mood, health, and similar aspects will be negatively influenced, and the organization will suffer greatly as a result, far beyond sick days and frequent absences. Employees will become far more tense, stressed, and bitter.
From a broader perspective, the lack of proper connection between people is the root of all our current problems. Whether we like it or not, the world in which we live is becoming integral—everything in it is interconnected—but we ourselves are not. The integral approach comes precisely to address this problem. It teaches how to create integral relationships and deep connection between people.
Imagine a remote and isolated place. It could be a vacation resort or, alternatively, a prison. What defines it as one or the other? The relationships between the people who stay there.
Should our workplace be a place of enjoyment or a place of suffering? Everything depends on the system of relationships between us.
Developing the integral approach within an organization gives each person space to develop and flourish. In an integral organization we do not simply come “to work,” but to a place of renewal. Why? It is because the integral approach to business and life gives us the feeling that as we develop personally, our environment develops as well. We feel a constant mutual renewal, almost like children.
Remember how we used to wake up on a day off in the morning, jumping out of bed? The sun was shining and we wanted to run outside immediately. “Where are my games? Where are my friends?” This is how we can feel even now while working in an integral organization. It becomes possible not to feel pressure if the people around us help us experience every situation easily and pleasantly. Everything depends on the society around us.
Employees and managers alike should come to work in the organization like children who come to play happily with their friends. And what is special about a playground? It is a place of connection with others. Wherever the right connection exists, human development also takes place. Only there can we truly flourish.
Let us recall a game from childhood that we loved very much. The game itself might not have been physically easy. We climbed, jumped, ran, and worked hard. However, we saw it as a challenge and experienced enjoyment. Sometimes we played against one another, sometimes side by side, but we always had something in common: we enjoyed playing together.
Why is such effort considered a game? Why does it bring enjoyment? Why is it not considered hard work? It turns out that everything depends on the attitude and the relationships between people. In an environment where we experience constant tension and everyone pressures one another, we feel bad. In a friendly society that helps and supports us, we feel safety, joy, and a common sense of enjoyment. It is very natural and very simple.
In the integral method, no one tells another person, “You are not okay, you must improve your behavior.” The assumption is that everyone is good and everyone is perfectly fine, and we love and respect all employees. No one needs to change themselves. All we want to improve is the relationships between us.
This is a new and very special psychological approach, and it deals only with the connection between people. All the natural qualities each of us has from birth, everything we absorbed from our education, our outlook on life and the world, it can all remain as it is. We only need to work on connecting with one another in a harmonious fashion, learning how not to “devour” one another, not in action, and not even in thought or intention.
Gradually, we learn to release the pressures that arise from our relationships with one another and reach a state in which the society around us gives us a full sense of security. That is all we need to do. In such a society, everyone can feel almost like a small child within a family, where the whole house belongs to them, they run around full of activity, and everyone smiles at them and loves them. Through the warm relationship we build between us, we will feel that the environment cares for us and that we all care for its well-being.
Ultimately, all the problems in the world today stem from the lack of positive connection between people, between organizations, and between countries.
While the technological world we live in has become integral and completely interconnected, socially we remain in the opposite state, more distant and divided from one another than ever before. We all need to awaken and recognize that today the only way to move forward and succeed is by adapting ourselves to the global system of connection that is gradually being revealed. This system clearly shows that we all depend on one another, whether we like it or not.
With the help of the integral method, building the right kind of connection can become a reality. Developing positive mutual communication can solve many different problems. Through this method, a new spirit will arise among employees. Everyone will take an active part in advancing the organization, and thanks to improved relationships, the organization will also achieve remarkable results.
Based on “New Life 107 – The New World of Work, Part 2” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
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