It won’t be long before leadership teams will have access to the ‘hybrid remote week.’ Working part of the time together in person with our colleagues, and part of the time away from the office. I am aware of several large employers who are taking this moment to reorganise their leases and offices to achieve a …
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Working in leadership teams has its challenges and having difficult conversations are part and parcel of the experience. Every difficult conversation with your team is an opportunity to build a bridge to a better overall Workplace Experience. Difficult conversations require courage but they are so worth the effort. I want to share with you a …
Here are five simple strategies most leadership teams can use for team decision making in non-crisis situations. Usually when a decision is put to a leadership team rather than an individual, it is either because a complex problem is at hand or because you need team buy-in to move forward. If you need team buy-in, …
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Have you ever been in a meeting when one of your colleagues began to drift off course, affecting the Workplace Experience for everyone? Tangents in meetings can be amusing or annoying at best. They can also be incredibly serious. The usual advice for leadership teams to eliminate tangents goes like this: “articulate a goal, clarify …
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If I ask you to envisage a team in any government, business or not-for-profit organisation, no doubt a leadership team will be part of the picture. What would happen if that leadership team walked away from the team and left team members to their own devices? You’d expect chaos, frustration and paralysis. And yet thousands …
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For many leadership teams the idea of receiving an extra hour’s work each day from each employee could seem too good to be true. Harvard Business Review (HBR) thought just that and so put recent findings from Stanford University about the increased output of remote workers to the test. The Stanford study is the most robust …
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