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With remote working adding an extra obstacle to workplace conversations about mental health, managers need to know that it’s ok to ask. With no end to the lockdown in sight, employees are facing the prospect of many more months of working remotely, meaning that the mental health challenges associated with lockdown – isolation, loss of…
COVID-19 and its effects forced short-term changes on many finance functions, including changes to organization design — structures, networks and workflows, and role design. Finance leaders will need to account for these new realities in their long-term plans for the shape of the finance function. Finance function structures will be permanently flatter Finance function organizational…
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought severe disruption to legal functions everywhere, both in terms of how legal teams carry out their work and also in terms of what work they need to do. Moreover, the economic effects of the pandemic have created cost constraints in many organizations. Two-thirds of respondents in a 2020 Gartner poll…
No one would dispute that 2020 upended business models, priorities and plans as organizations were forced to navigate a rapidly changing environment. HR was at the forefront of initiatives to respond to a wide range of internal and external transformative trends, from employee well-being to new workforce models and social justice. My daily conversations with…
Ready for your job interviews? You’ve whittled down the pile of CVs and have a shortlist of candidates. Now the hard work really begins. Getting to know a relative stranger in a short period of time is difficult enough – how can you ensure you know enough about them to bring them into your business?…
Chatting by the watercooler or WhatsApping your team? Then you’re using informal communication. As a natural, unstructured way of catching up with the people you work with, informal communication has a firm place within any business, but can too much damage your organisation? In this post we cover the ways informal communication can help –…
The disruption of coronavirus has shattered the paradigm of traditional 9-to-5 work at the office, but the question isn’t just remote vs. on-site. A hybrid workforce model offers the kind of radical flexibility required to build organizational resilience, but does your organization have the leadership mindset and skills to capture the opportunity? Many business leaders…
It goes without saying that effective communications are key to business success. We look at 4 key styles of business communications and explore the ways these can be flexed to help improve collaboration. After you’ve had a chance to read this blog, we’d love to hear your thoughts. Can peoples’ communication styles change and evolve…