6-3-5 Method

The below is an example of how the method was prepared and facilitated in February 2021 by a student group during the course “Megatrends and Technological Innovation” held by Prof. Dr. Patricia Wolf at the University of Southern Denmark.

Slide 1

• • The aim of the exercise is to build scenarios that focus on answering the question: What will be the role of psychological and physical wellbeing in future workplaces?
  • We are 9 people, and will do 9 rounds of 1 minute idea-writing.
  • In each round, you have 1 minute to come up with one sentence that elaborates on the previous sentence that has been made.
  • During each round, you will be on a slide dedicated to you.
  • You start at the slide that states your name.
  • When the round is over, you move one slide forward, for example: the person in slide 2, will move to slide 3, and the person in slide 3 will move to slide 4, and so on. For the person in slide 10, that person will move to slide 2.
  • After the last round, we will read all stories out.I will then ask you to vote for the three scenarios that you like most by copy past a heart on the respective three slides.

Slide 2 – Ramez: What will be the role of psychological and physical wellbeing in future workplaces?

• • 1. Round – Happiness and care for people
  • 2. Round – Workplace safety leads to wellbeing
  • 3. Round – Wellbeing is about happiness and fun, which leads to growth
  • 4. Round – Going paperless in offices could help
  • 5. Round – Employees feel empowered to act environmentally responsible
  • 6. Round – In acting like this, they want to make sure to prepare the way for future generations
  • 7. Round – Innovation is the key
  • 8. Round – Including technologies that changes environment, social and economic aspects, like AI
  • 9. Round – The technologies will eventually be implemented at all workplaces due to the success it has proven to be

Slide 3 – Amar: What will be the role of psychological and physical wellbeing in future workplaces?

• • 1. Round – Wellbeing will be prioritized with SDGS being heavily involved in future workplaces
  • 2. Round – As wellbeing will have a large impact
  • 3. Round – Good communication and coordination among the workers has positive impact on employee wellbeing
  • 4. Round – The future of wellbeing requires changes to habits
  • 5. Round – Recycling of waste products in the office could have an effect on the employee’s well-being
  • 6. Round – Social responsibility furthermore increases equality in workplaces increasing wellbeing
  • 7. Round – With digital tools it gets easier to achieve this state of equality
  • 8. Round – AI can be a game-changer
  • 9. Round – Environmental, social, and economic issues will be solved

Slide 4 – Frederik: What will be the role of psychological and physical wellbeing in future workplaces?

• • 1. Round – Balancing between spare time and work life
  • 2. Round – Workdays will be reduced to 4 days to assure the wellbeing of individuals
  • 3. Round – And therefore, create more time to family as it has an impact on your wellbeing
  • 4. Round – Opportunity for employee excellence
  • 5. Round – This is a necessary change to habits of the future
  • 6. Round – Focus on green energy, reducing waste, going paperless, all could improve the well-being of employees since they feel like they have an impact
  • 7. Round – Robots increase productivity
  • 8. Round – This implementation of robots leads to life-changing developments
  • 9. Round – Further research will be needed to achieve desirable results 

Slide 5 – Irina: What will be the role of psychological and physical wellbeing in future workplaces?

• • 1. Round – Care to employee’s mental health will be necessary
  • 2. Round – Management team will need to take care of workers physical and emotional well-being, including fitness etc.
  • 3. Round – Workplaces will offer training exercises and healthy food to employees
  • 4. Round – Sustainability will have a large impact on our future as we will have to maintain the existing resources on earth
  • 5. Round – Sustainable products and minimizing waste
  • 6. Round – This may include a greener future, where animals play a part, for example as office mascots
  • 7. Round – Robots could take over the physical jobs, which means that the ones currently working these jobs could lose them. This could lead to poor both psychological and physical well-being
  • 8. Round – Robots need to be developed and trained which will create new, demanding, and interesting jobs
  • 9. Round – With these new jobs and the technologies a new era of work-life starts

Slide 6 – Lina: What will be the role of psychological and physical wellbeing in future workplaces?

• • 1. Round – The balance between work and healthy life will play an important role
  • 2. Round – Because employees will value their happiness when evaluating which job to choose
  • 3. Round – Job- and task-rotation is necessary for workers when evaluating, because technology is changing the business landscape
  • 4. Round – A sustainable workplace will be introduced by achieving job and task rotation and happier individuals
  • 5. Round – Which will then create a more sustainable workplace environment
  • 6. Round – Fair work environment for employees
  • 7. Round – These changes will not only be helpful for the employees, but will increase efficiency
  • 8. Round – Working completely digital from home could be a bad thing for the well-being of employees since they may not have a work-life balance like they used to be physically at the office
  • 9. Round – Robots can take over tasks at home of employees so that they have more leisure time next to their work

Slide 7 – Melina: What will be the role of psychological and physical wellbeing in future workplaces?

• • 1. Round – Maximization of happiness and mental + psychological health
  • 2. Round – Management will care to an intensified amount about this health
  • 3. Round – 
  • 4. Round – The future workplace should be shaped in a way that take care of social, economic, and environmental issues
  • 5. Round – Technology will follow the same sustainable path as the 3 above mentioned issues
  • 6. Round – Which hopefully will create a more sustainable future
  • 7. Round – Teleworking-working from home
  • 8. Round – Is a more efficient tool for the future well-being of work
  • 9. Round – Automation of certain tasks could improve the physical well-being of employees since they now may not get hurt doing their physically exhausting jobs

Slide 8 – Nicholas: What will be the role of psychological and physical wellbeing in future workplaces?

• • 1. Round – Working completely from home could potentially lead to a good work/life balance, which could also impact your health
  • 2. Round – Employees have more freedom and time they can use for family and sports instead of traveling to the workplace
  • 3. Round – Holidays are not only for entertainment but even working on your free time can be a welcomed part of holidays
  • 4. Round – That’s how future generations
  • 5. Round – .. Will choose what they prioritize and value in their workplace
  • 6. Round – And achieve a happier life…
  • 7. Round – Technology is taking more over and creating more free-time for the individual
  • 8. Round – Work can be undertaken in different venues due to access to internet
  • 9. Round – …which is an efficient future of working life

Slide 9 – Palle: What will be the role of psychological and physical wellbeing in future workplaces?

• • 1. Round – The main challenge for this is to create sustainable growth, and happy experiences
  • 2. Round – A good office environment with good employee benefits could improve the psychological and physical well-being of the employees
  • 3. Round – The good office includes space for leisure activities and informal conversations/teamwork
  • 4. Round – Offices also help to maintain long-term happiness
  • 5. Round – By focusing on being green and bring pleasure to those working there
  • 6. Round – An idea for businesses in terms of being green is to make a strategy based on how to implement Circular business model that gives the company a “green” profile
  • 7. Round – Technology will follow through and become more environment friendly to make the whole process “green”
  • 8. Round – This will create a technological future for the upcoming generations
  • 9. Round – Mobile technologies has increased mobility and flexibility in the workplace

Slide 10 – Praveena: What will be the role of psychological and physical wellbeing in future workplaces?

• • 1. Round – Flexibility in workplace is essential for employee wellbeing
  • 2. Round – The challenge is to make the flexibility sustainable and healthy
  • 3. Round – Work/life balance would be important to focus on to prevent poor psychological and physical wellbeing
  • 4. Round – Employees can use the office both to work and to take care of plants
  • 5. Round – Green offices, not only with plants but in their ethics, will keep employees motivated and happy
  • 6. Round – And will also help sustaining the future of the planet
  • 7. Round – New technologies like AR, VR and AI is emerging and will change the business landscape and the economy in general
  • 8. Round – Workplaces will implement the new technologies and focus on the society as a whole
  • 9. Round – Which will create an easier technological future