May the Flow Be With You: Enabling Flow State to Positively Impact Productivity

In today’s always-on, fast-paced, and hyper-connected world, organizations are expected to create the necessary conditions for improved employee wellbeing, ideally resulting in a healthier path to performance and engagement. This is not an easy balance to strike, and it’s one with which both employees and organizations are seriously struggling. This points to an untapped opportunity to leverage flow states — the mental state of being fully immersed in an activity, where everything else beyond the immediate task seems to disappear — to find the healthier path to optimal results without burning out employees. But it is important to tread lightly, as flow states also present the risk of actually contributing to burnout.

In this session, we will explore:

• The four phases of the “flow cycle”.
• Triggers in the workplace that enable a flow state.
• Tactics for increasing the likelihood of experiencing flow state to positively impact employee wellbeing.