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…
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…
How to support healthy performance in a technology-based remote workforce?
We are all experiencing it: Remote working has advantages for integrating work and life demands but also creates challenges for health and performance. I like the flexibility of working from home but I miss my commute! The time to disconnect from work and some quiet time before taking charge of home life. I miss my…
#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…
Algorithms
Dr David Pendleton, Professor in Leadership Algorithms are in the news. An algorithm is a set of rules or a procedure for solving a problem. Who would have thought that such an esoteric thing as an algorithm would be getting so many people so hot under the collar? We all use algorithms all the time,…
Light at the end of the tunnel: Leading with hope through Covid-19
By Dr Amal Ahmadi A frog started to climb a tree with the goal to reach the top. Other frogs repeatedly jumped and shouted, “it’s impossible, it’s impossible, you will fall”. Yet the frog successfully reached the top of the tree despite the negative noise. How? It was deaf, and instead, thought that the other…
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…
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