THRIVE The Facilitator’s Guide to Radically Inclusive Meetings by Dr. Mark Smutny Overview This is truly a guide — containing a wide range of advice for those who want to run inclusive, engaging and productive meetings. It covers both the mindset and skills facilitators need. Those skills include: Planning a Continue Reading
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Building an enduring culture
BUILDING AN ENDURING CULTURE Context 2020 will go down as a memorable year for many of the wrong reasons. But some companies will have endured better than others, and typically (although admittedly not always) culture is a reason. Turning it around, few (if any) companies with a strong culture will Continue Reading
Unstoppable Teams
UNSTOPPABLE TEAMS The Four Essential Actions of High-Performance Leadership By Alden Mills Many leadership books talk about the whole organisation, but here Alden Mills talks about the uniqueness of small teams. And he draws upon his experience as a former SEALs team leader and rower. What they have in common is Continue Reading
Post-Covid Work Trends
POST-COVID WORK TRENDS After the response and recovery phases, the next step for organisations — for HR — is to decide when to ‘re-set’ their businesses, and create their new operating models. And there are five trends for them to consider. REMOTE WORK WILL INCREASE Although many organisations managed with Continue Reading
Working from home is working – for now…
WORKING FROM HOME IS WORKING…FOR NOW Change, as we’re so often saying and reading, is now a constant. If anything the debate has shifted not on ‘if’ but how quickly. A CHANGING WORKPLACE The pandemic has turned the world of work on its head — and specifically the workplace. Overnight, Continue Reading
How does COVID-19 change the way we recruit?
HOW DOES COVID-19 CHANGE THE WAY WE RECRUIT In some ways, I’d suggest that great recruitment practices will endure – even in a COVID-19 world. But there are a few things we can do to ensure our resourcing activities are robust enough to maximise our chances of recruiting the best Continue Reading
Six (relatively) new things for HR to ponder in 2021
SIX (RELATIVELY) NEW THINGS FOR HR TO PONDER IN 2021 In 2020, many of the rules of work changed. What was considered impractical and unworkable suddenly became the norm. Companies were forced to learn how to rethink their practices. Home offices became the rule and no longer the exception — Continue Reading
Leaders Block
LEADER’S BLOCK How Great Leaders Recover After They Stumble Ritu Gupta Mehrish Summary Ritu Gupta Mehrish maintains that all leaders, at some point, feel ‘blocked.’ The premise of this book is that, although there are a plethora of titles explaining how leaders can boost their effectiveness – finding practical help Continue Reading
The Surprising Science of Meetings
THE SURPRISING SCIENCE OF MEETINGS The Surprising Science of Meetings How You Can Lead Your Team to Peak Performance Steven G. Rogelberg Summary Many managers regard inefficient, unproductive or boring meetings as an unavoidable business flaw. In this book, Professor Steven G. Rogelberg challenges this assumption with ideas on how to Continue Reading
Radical Simplicity
RADICAL SIMPLICITY How Ken Allen turned DHL from a failing company into a global success story Logistics giant DHL was haemorrhaging hundreds of millions annually before Ken Allen became its global CEO. He turned the company around, making it a success and a place where people love to work. In this book, Continue Reading