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2023年5月30日

Organizations and businesses adjusting to a post-pandemic normal are putting greater emphasis on mental health and well-being, and a new series of videos produced by 萨克拉门托 State’s Wisdom Studio offers key insights from some of the region’s top leaders.

今年5月，智慧工作室录制了一场关于员工福利的现场工作室讨论，嘉宾包括罗斯维尔副城市经理梅根·沙伊德、B街剧院艺术总监林赛·伯奇、学术事务临时教务长兼副校长卡洛斯·内瓦雷斯，以及萨克州立大学兼职教授兼工业/组织顾问约瑟夫·凡沃。

Hosted by College of Business Professor Hakan Ozcelik and actor and director Elisabeth Nunziato, it was the Wisdom Studio’s first in-person event since the pandemic.

“Our goal is wisdom-oriented leadership,” Ozcelik said. “Well-being has become a huge topic not only for organizations, but for our students and the larger public as well. There’s a huge gap between what people expect and what organizations provide.

“We’ve got these great organizational leaders from different sectors, so we’re bringing them together to hear their stories.”

Included are stories such as how Burch took over the B Street Theatre after its longtime artistic director, Buck Busfield, retired in January 2021 and successfully led 萨克拉门托’s beloved performing arts company through the pandemic.

“We create conversations, almost like we’re sitting around the dinner table.” --  Hakan Ozcelik, College of Business professor

她聘请了一位组织治疗师，帮助剧团从18个月的虚拟节目过渡到重新向现场观众开放。 到那时，许多员工已经离开了公司。

“So, we were rebuilding our team, and I just got this sense that something was different about the energy of the organization,” Burch said. “People were struggling.

“I want to be a leader who centers on the well-being of the organization as well as the success of the organization. 一个从外部看起来很成功的组织内部并不总是健康的。 So how do we ensure those two things go together?”

组织治疗师进行了各种小组会议，并会见了个别工作人员。

“It changed a lot of things for us in a positive way,” Burch said.

She also engaged an employee working toward a master’s degree in nonprofit administration to study whether the theater is competitive in the job market.

“Many folks running businesses and organizations are having difficulty hiring people, especially in entry-level positions,” Burch said. “We wanted to learn where we are in the job market, not just salary but also what our organization can offer an employee beyond just getting paid. 人们关心什么？ What causes them to invest in an organization and stay with an organization?”

囊状态’s College of Business launched the Wisdom Studio in 2017, bringing together artists, academics, executives, and employees to explore issues and help enhance society’s health, happiness, and performance.

“We create conversations, almost like we’re sitting around the dinner table,” Ozcelik said.

Their conversations are recorded in front of a live studio audience and edited into a series of roughly 15-minute videos, which are uploaded to Wisdom Studio’s YouTube channel.

最新系列的第一段视频于今年5月录制，预计将于今年夏天发布。

在疫情期间，Ozcelik和Nunziato通过Zoom制作了视频，提供了在世界庇护的情况下应对孤独和孤立的建议。

Roseville’s Scheid said her city is trying to combine what leaders learned about working remotely with being back together.

“You can’t only operate from an academic, knowledge-based viewpoint in order to provide services to human beings,” Scheid said. “You have to know the other human beings you’re working with and be able to have a comfort level to have honest conversations.”

与B街剧院一样，罗斯维尔市的许多员工在疫情期间退休。

“How do we welcome people into our organization and transfer knowledge?” Scheid问道。 “We’re still in the upheaval of it. There are surveys of people who appreciate the flexibility of (working remotely) and also appreciate getting together more.”

So far, Wisdom Studio, which was featured in an 促进大学商学院协会文章, has produced 30 episodes. 这些剧集已经被来自世界各地的12000多人观看。

Ozcelik and his students also are working with computer science students to engage more viewers by revamping the studio’s website and creating 1-minute video segments on Instagram.