6-3-5 Method

Das folgende Beispiel zeigt, wie die Methode im Februar 2021 von einer Studentengruppe im Rahmen des Kurses “Megatrends and Technological Innovation” von Prof. Dr. Patricia Wolf an der University of Southern Denmark vorbereitet und durchgeführt wurde.

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