Retired Gen. Stan McChrystal, a fellow West Point graduate, suggests in his book "Leadership: Myth and Reality" that different environments will require different leaders.
Leadership during the new normal: The importance of purpose and values
How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration
New research sheds light on implications of using politically correct and incorrect speech and identifies five techniques to increase persuasiveness and diffuse conflict. Insights from two recent studies in an emerging field—the psychology of conversation—are aimed at organizational leaders interested in improving their conversation styles to create higher quality collaboration.
Speed of Necessity
What’s changed? In your market, in your industry, in your company, in your team, with yourself? COVID accelerated many things that were already in play. This acceleration was not brought about because COVID released us to do new things, but because COVID constrained us. We change because it is necessary, the mother of invention. Human …
Performance Appraisals and COVID-19: Getting Real Results From Performance Reviews –
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced huge changes on the way many of us work. Regular time in the office feels like a thing of the past, and virtual meetings are the new reality.
Managing the new era of flexible working
Despite multiple predictions that COVID-19 would put an end to offices, it’s now clear the future of business won’t be fully digitised. Instead, physical and remote workspaces will coexist in a new era of flexible work.
What a Trusting Team Feels Like | Simon Sinek
It's a leader's responsibility to create an environment in which their team feels psychologically safe - especially in this current time with so many of our colleagues working from home and adjusting to everything that means.
One at a time, over and over. That is client service for each client we have.
It’s 2018, a special night out. The restaurant shouldn’t have been as disappointing as it was. The room was beautiful, the staff was trying hard, the menu was ambitious–and yet it fell flat. I realized that the problem is one that many of us face: All shift long, there’s a lot to do. Source: One …
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What a Vision Is | Simon Sinek
Vision is the ability to see that which does not yet exist. As we slowly bring that vision to life, more people will start to recognize the work we're doing and join our crusade. But, like an iceberg, there will always been much more waiting underneath the surface. + + + Simon is an unshakable …
Covid-Era Pods For New Belfast Restaurant – Business Eye Article – An example of innovation and solution focus to deal with the current challenges
The restaurant interior has been re-modelled and re-equipped to the highest possible standard in an overall development costing over £500,000.
Why exporting will play an important role in rebuilding our economy post COVID
One of Northern Ireland’s leading agri tech companies, Unitas Software based in Coleraine recently secured over $1million of new export sales with major egg producers in the US and Europe. In just four years, Unitas used our R&D support to enhance, define and improve its software and grow from selling in the UK to breaking …
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