Ideas, insights and inspirations
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One core strategy that can help you and your team to flourish and thrive
If we want more than the ordinary – if you want to really thrive as a manager, or help your team members to flourish – then you need to consider these insights from positive psychology.
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Leadership insights from the Panama Canal
Making decisions and solving problems are key leadership skills, but there are so many obstacles to objective, evidence-based critical thinking. Looking at the history of constructing the Panama Canal provides some fascinating insights and lessons for us today.
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How to overcome the 4 obstacles to giving quality feedback to your hybrid team
Providing motivational and developmental feedback to enhance performance is one of the most important leadership and management skills. But for managers who lead hybrid teams there are four new unique challenges that you need to overcome.
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4 approaches to prepare for the challenges of a multigenerational workforce
One of the big challenges of the future workplace will be the widening age range of the workforce. Leaders and managers need to start thinking now how they will address the two key challenges that this presents.
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Embed generative AI in your organisation: 7 helpful tips
Insights from the fascinating panel session “AI is transforming work – how do we support people and enhance work?” at the CIPD Festival of Work. Practical suggestions from three pathfinders.
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How does an ant kill a buffalo? Leadership lessons on the future of work
Chain reactions are a big problem for managers wanting to thrive in the future of work. Leaders, teams and organisations can learn an important lesson about workforce flexibility from recent research
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Are you ready for the workforce of the future?
Instead of thinking about technology, let’s look at a neglected issues for the future of work – the end of the ‘single dimensional’ workforce. Valuable insights and practical suggestions from three experts at the CIPD’s Festival of Work.
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A new approach for future-planning: look out for aggressive polar bears
Thinkers about the future have used the analogies of black swans and grey rhinos for some years now. But to reflect the complexity of upcoming change, we need to introduce the ‘aggressive polar bear’.
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Hybrid working: three gurus tell us how to thrive.
The shift to hybrid working raises a wide variety of challenges and opportunities. Read on for some great ideas from pathfinder business leaders that you can apply, and some questions for you to reflect on.
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“Being a leader is not about you.” How leaders can achieve performance success
You’re a leader with a great organisational business strategy, operational plan and team objectives. So now the big question is – how do you get your team to perform and deliver success?
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5 proven tools for leaders to break through the barriers of hybrid working
We need our teams to work across our organisation: collaborating for innovation, communicating for efficiency and understanding different perspectives. Yet hybrid working makes this much more complex – so read on for 5 ways to tackle the new obstacles.
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Get it right first time: setting up for success, not debriefing disappointment
Do you want to spend time debriefing what went wrong and how to be better in the future – or do you want to start with planning for success? Read on to find out about the Feedforward technique – managers that prepare don’t need to repair.