Dr Caroline Rook & Dr Can Ererdi What is a resilient team? What does team resilience look like in a healthy and productive post-pandemic organization? How can we be resilient as a team when we are not together as we used to be? These are the questions that the second webinar of the of the…
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Leading healthy and productive post-pandemic workplaces: Leader resilience
Dr Caroline Rook & Dr Can Ererdi “Do we need more resilient leaders? What does creating team resilience mean? What is a resilient organization, and what does a culture of resilience mean in this context?” These are the questions that the first webinar of the of the Henley Centre for Leadership Leading Healthy and Productive…
Can Personal Development start a movement?
Dr Chris Dalton, Henley Centre for Leadership We are coming to the end of our second year with COVID and the last 12 months have provided no shortage of leadership and change subjects worthy of comment from a business school. The climate crisis, the COP26 event in Glasgow, the emergent and unintended consequences of past…
How do I know if I’m doing the right things?
Prof David Pendleton, Professor in Leadership How many hours do you work in a typical week? Probably too many. Your family would probably like to see you more. Your friends likewise. You may well need to take more exercise, to read around your subject or just for interest, to do those jobs at home that…
COP26, silence of the leadership development, and the band on the Titanic!
By Professor Bernd Vogel, Henley Centre for Leadership It is the last day. António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, at the opening of COP26 said, “Enough of killing ourselves with carbon. Enough of treating nature like a toilet.” Compare that to conversations amongst leadership development academics, practitioners, or clients. I often feel like a member of…
The Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Agenda
By Cheryl Hurst, Lecturer • Leadership Organisations & Behaviour As a diversity and inclusion researcher with an interest in fulfilment and a background in organisational psychology, I am sometimes asked to speak at events and conferences specifically to HR professionals. It can be difficult because you never know the type of room you’re walking into…
Career sustainability and the purpose of education
Dr David Pendleton, Professor in Leadership, Henley Business School Eight years ago, I was sitting at a large dining table in a private dining room in the St Louis Club, having just arrived from the UK via Chicago. I was surrounded by 20 of the great and the good from that fabled midwestern city who…
Why should we stop playing down ageism at work?
By Tatiana Rowson I was recently part of a diversity conversation, and the issue of age was brushed off as too complex to be part of the discussion. I agree that age (and ageism) at work is a complex subject, and this is not only a diversity issue but an occupational health and wellbeing issue…
Are you an authentic leader?
I was privileged to be on the first cohort of the MA Leadership at Henley Business School between June 2016 and April 2018. It was an amazing experience having the opportunity to study leadership and implementing my learning in my organisation. The biggest takeaway for me personally though was learning how to lead authentically, in…
#Coronavirus and the numbers that clarify or obfuscate
Dr David Pendleton, Professor in Leadership, Henley Business School, University of Reading In the pandemic, our lives are ruled and dominated by numbers, especially when they change unexpectedly. The number of cases, deaths, infection rates (R), and hospitalisations are meant to inform us about the impact of the virus on the nation’s health. The employment…
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