People are an invaluable asset in any organization, including yours. But are you thinking strategically about how you find, develop, and utilize that asset? Are you embracing strategic HR?
Why does your business exist? What mission do you seek to achieve? Distilling your raison d'être down to just a few sentences may take some time, but it’ll be an unshakeable true north and a powerful motivator too. Here’s why.
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The real measure of a team is not how it performs when things are going well, but how it can cope when things go wrong. So how resilient is your team?
Along with the Centre for Big Data at Roskilde University, we're launching a project that will use anonymized customer data to provide power and unique insights to aid organizations in developing more impactful people development strategies.
Female-led countries have suffered fewer COVID-related deaths than male-led ones. Is this coincidence? No. Luck? Hardly. If you look closer, there’s a lot to learn from female leaders when disaster strikes.
“Burnt out” is the status quo for over a quarter of today’s workers. How did we get here? And, more importantly, what can organizations do to normalize looking after mental health at work?
To grow, develop, and lead a team to success, managers need to know who they’re working with. But to what extent should you get to know your people personally — as well as professionally?
Emotional Intelligence (E.Q.) helps teams work better together, and creates exceptional managers. So is there enough E.Q. in your leadership style?
On one hand, innovation is a team effort. But for teams to achieve the performance that successful innovation demands, they need someone to show the way. Are you ready to lead?
Gender differences dominate the headlines. But how much truth is there in the stereotypical representation of female leaders? And what, if anything, does that mean for business?
“The only thing that’s constant in life is change” — it’s a saying we can all feel affinity with. But how positively do we respond to change in our own career and, more importantly, how well do we lead through it?
The current climate has put a strain on employee wellbeing, no doubt. But it’s important to recognize and support the factors that influence wellbeing in the workplace, not only today but well into the future.
Inclusion isn’t just the ‘right’ thing to do, it delivers a wealth of benefits internally and for your customer base, too. So what do you need to know about building an inclusive workplace? And how do you assess where you are today?
Remote work is on the rise. Whether from home, in satellite offices, or in separate workspaces, a growing number of teams are now collaborating through virtual means.
Generation Z, or Centennials, are fast becoming the demographic to watch. If the predictions are right, under 25s will make up nearly 25% of the global workforce in 2020. Are you ready?
There’s a lot to gain from separating pay from performance — so is it time you changed your approach?
An empowered employee feels psychologically safe in the workplace — they know they can be honest and make mistakes, without fear of judgement or dismissal. So are your teams empowered to perform?
Motivation levels at work are declining, to the detriment of organizational effectiveness and employee wellbeing. So should leaders use extrinsic or intrinsic rewards to encourage performance? It may not be a case of either or….
Project teams are individuals brought together for a temporary and unique purpose. As such, they require a specific approach to performance management — so what does that look like?
For better or worse, ‘employee engagement’ has become a corporate buzz-phrase of late. We all talk about it – but do we know what it really means to have an engaged employee?
