Dr Benjamin Ritter, Founder of Live for Yourself Consulting | Putting a square peg in a square hole – job crafting and wellbeing

The Workplace Wellbeing Podcast

Dr Benjamin Ritter is a doctor of organisational leadership and the founder of Live for Yourself consulting. Ben is a self-confessed “values and leadership geek” he is also a full-time leadership and career coach.
Dr Ritter works with companies to help them improve retention. In the current highly challenging labour market for employers this is something that all of fastP.A.Y.E customers are taking very seriously as many have significant staff shortages. Dr Ritter believes that employees leave because they are trying to find a better fit and that something called Job Crafting is the way to solve this. So, in this episode, we explore this subject to understand how it can lead to a happier, more stable workforce.
Dr Ritter and Ian discuss:
- What is Job Crafting?
- The limitations of a Job Descriptions.
- How much of a job needs to deliver true meaning for an employee and what to do with all those tasks that nobody wants to do.
- The perfect culture for retention.
What is inspiring Dr Ritter:
Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall
Contact Dr Ritter:
https://www.liveforyourselfconsulting.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ritterbenj/
The Workplace Wellbeing Podcast is supported by the WorkTech Group, which supplies cloud based tools for the modern workforce manager. The Group owns, ShopWorks, a cloud based Rota Management Software and Labour Management Software provider. fastP.A.Y.E is an Employee Financial Wellbeing App and SolvedBy.Ai provides AI powered Sales Forecasting Software and Forecasting Labour Demand solutions.