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Jun 28, 2022
The Great Resignation or The Great Regret?
It’s such a simple but powerful strategy: get in front of your people, one at a time if possible, and ask them how they are doing and what they need to be happier, more productive, and less stressed out.
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May 23, 2022
Five things to consider before you become a locum solicitor
Are you considering entering the legal locum world? Here are five things you should consider before you make any decisions.
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Aug 25, 2022
The Crisis Checklist: Six Strategies for Sudden Executive Transitions
In a perfect world, executive succession planning for executive departures is an orderly process. Organizations work with key leaders to plan out departures, and successors are groomed and ready to go. But, as we all know, executive departures do not always cooperate with this planful approach. We offer six strategies that will help you avoid a crisis and assure there is a process in place to manage the transition smoothly.
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Aug 07, 2023
Rebounding after a redundancy
Thousands of professionals are laid off every year–if you’re one of them, here are some strategies to help you rebound quickly and stay on top of your game.
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Oct 13, 2023
Managing burnout in a BANI world
How can businesses assess their leader's capacity for resilience within a BANI climate?
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Mar 20, 2024
Connecting the Dots Between Coaching and Retention: An Insurance Policy Against Turnover
Half of all people who are quitting jobs and moving on would have stayed if their employer had “done something.” The bigger question for employers who are losing some of their best people is – done what?
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Mar 05, 2024
Reimagining Performance Reviews: Moving to Performance Coaching
Decades of concern about negative impacts of annual performance reviews has crystallized into a growing consensus among academics, HR executives and many business leaders: when they are done badly or the wrong methodology is used, they can do more harm than good.
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May 27, 2022
How to Build a Network When You Don’t Think You Have One
Think beyond the obvious when building a network. “Everybody you know is your network. Everyone—from former colleagues, to suppliers, relatives and friends, to your dentist and people in community or leisure activities. Ask yourself, ‘who do I know?’ That’s your network.”
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Apr 16, 2024
Coaching: Making Leadership Development Stick
Traditional leadership development can be very effective on its own. However, coaching can take the skills, behaviours and mindsets that form the curriculum in a classroom or group learning experience and turn them into personal, customised solutions that help leaders learn more, more quickly, and retain that knowledge longer.
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Mar 28, 2022
Reskilling the C-Suite: Leading into the Future
C-suite executives are not being asked to personally match the reskilling demands that are being placed on other levels of the leadership hierarchy. There are some very basic things senior business leaders can do to ensure you are transforming yourself at the same pace and magnitude as you are trying to change your organisations.
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Jan 09, 2024
Succession Planning: 6 ways to tell if your leadership is future-proof
Succession planning is the best way to future-proof your business. Assess how prepared your leadership is for the future with these six key questions.
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Dec 14, 2022
Is Elon Musk a New Role Model for CEOs?
As hard as it is to imagine, business news outlets are rushing to at least ask the question about whether Musk – the billionaire who bought Twitter this fall, laid off half of its employees and pressed remaining staff to go “hardcore” or just go – had somehow become a role model for the modern CEO.