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…
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…
#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…
When Organisational Values Challenge Your Own
By Professor Ben Laker Leading culture is one of the most difficult of executive challenges because it comprises interlocking sets of values and assumptions that sometimes differ from our own. This is incredibly difficult when external pressures such as the coronavirus crisis are affecting our emotional resilience and outlook. Teams need a fusion and myriad…
Adding purpose to our internal dialogues
By Dr Tatiana Rowson How our internal conversation drives our behaviour, especially during periods of transitions, has always fascinated me. Understanding this internal process was the main reason I went on to study psychology and trained as a psychotherapist. This is still a featured topic in my teaching and research today, from various perspectives such…
Democratised leadership or dependency?
Professor David Pendleton The U.K. government seems to be feeling the absence of its leader. At the start of the coronavirus emergency, a slew of actions were taken that seemed decisive. Information flowed, lockdown was announced, vast sums of money were put aside to help, all in a succession of actions that were designed to…
Personal leader resilience is key to navigate the current crisis and uncertain future.
Dr Caroline Rook Currently, the resilience of businesses is being tested to the limit. But also, leaders’ robustness and resilience are key now to enable organisations and their teams to operate in these current unprecedented, frightening times. Over the coming months, if not years, leaders not only might have to question and transform the way…
Coping in a crisis: routine, routine, routine
By Dr Rebecca Jones I have always been a big fan of routine. I generally find that having a routine helps me to form healthy habits and to get things done, therefore making me as efficient as I can be. Having a routine around things like exercise makes it easier to consistently achieve my goals…
A sad story
My nine year old came home from school today and said he was very upset. He told me that a group of his friends had been having a party at the house of a very posh friend and a few of them had been telling stories when one of the group started mocking another kid…
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