Soft Leadership for Millennials
By M.S. Rao
The purpose of this article is to explore soft leadership to meet the rising expectations of the millennials globally. It unfolds the...
How to Negotiate Effectively with Multiple Parties?
By Guido Stein and Kandarp Mehta
Soft skills, like negotiating, have become increasingly important in creating personal relationships and fostering opportunities for your business’ long-term...
How to maximize employee retention rates in the job-hopping age
By Stefan Klumpp and Gareth Platt
In a world where 1 in 4 employees quits within 90 days, how do you hang on to your...
The Tech Trends Which are Shaping HR in 2019
As the old saying goes, “you’re only as good as your weakest link”. It’s a phrase which is extremely pertinent to the world of...
The Best HR Managers Should have these Skills
The world of human resources is constantly changing, in line with wider trends in the labour market. So, whilst more Brits are in employment...
Become A Better Boss Today
Being a boss isn't as easy as other people think. You have a lot of responsibilities, and you are the one who keeps it...
Why Leaders Should Encourage Employees to Rebel
By Francesca Gino
Organisations see lacklustre results when workers feel bored and constrained. By encouraging employees to rebel against convention and bring their best selves...
A Revolution at the Organisation’s Core: Millennials
By Guido Stein and Miguel Martín
How do organisations strategise to create a sound and functional workforce? In this article, the authors present how...
Top 5 benefits of mobile learning for corporations
By Ehsan Memari
Let’s face it: if you’re looking for a powerful way to promote learning in the workplace, you just can’t ignore mobile. After...
Open-space Ethics for Co-workers
Open-space offices are fast becoming the norm. For businesses and workers, they offer many advantages: easier communication for collaboration, lower costs, and greater transparency...
Do you need to be happy to be a Chief Happiness Officer?
Examining the new Happiness at Work initiative at SAP
By Steven MacGregor
“The term is loaded. It doesn’t mean I’m walking around all day telling jokes...
How a motivational speaker can transform your next event
Planning a business event can feel like a daunting prospect, even for established business leaders. This is for good reason: the evening’s legacy can...
Why Workstyle Reform Just Might Work in Japan
By Ginka Toegel
Ikigai– in Japanese it means, loosely, “what makes life worth living.” If reforms by the Shinzō Abe government succeed, it may one day...
Why You Should Get Personalised Clipboards with Jumbo Traditional Clips for your Business
Personalised clipboards could be the next big thing for your company- and we’re here to tell you why.
Personalised stationery has been on the rise...
Using Technology To Turn The Dial On Inclusion: The Mental Health Opportunity
By Barbara Harvey
The stigma long associated with mental health challenges is fading. Companies should turn that to their advantage. Technology can help.
Companies increasingly understand...
Boost Staff Motivation Levels All Year Round
By Aliya Vigor-Robertson
The return to work after the festive period can leave many employees struggling to get motivated. The excitement of Christmas is over,...
Smile, Smile and Be A Leader? Differences in male and female leaders’ use of...
By Vanessa Marcié and Sucheta Nadkarni
While humour can serve as a key to improve work culture and leadership effectiveness, there is a good chance that you are...
Data to the rescue: Investing in (female) employees
By Ineke Ceder and Sumru Erkut
Can companies successfully align attention to their bottom line with the current urgent calls for wider diversity and inclusion?...
The Dark Side of Emotional Contagion
By Alexandra Dobra-Kiel
Investment banks – and the financial services industry at large – continue to bear the reputational scares of some high-profile ethical scandals....
Actions, Not Words Yes, Working Parents Can Succeed – And You Can Help Them...
By Daisy Dowling
Organisations of all sizes and types struggle with the “working parent problem”: how to retain, and foster best performance amongst the significant...
Why Forgiveness Should Be Part Of Your Compliance Strategy
By David de Cremer
Compliance strategies are integral in creating a trustworthy, high performing and innovative work culture. As such, it is imperative for companies...
Savvy and Skillful: a new look at office politics
By Adrian Furnham
Until recently the concept of office politics was exclusively associated with dirty tricks and Machiavellian manipulation. But recently psychologists using the concept...
Speaking Truth to Power
By Megan Reitz and John Higgins
The need for transparency has never been more important, both in politics and in business. However, new research from...
What really matters to Gen Z? Workplace tech or the team around them?
By Tony Bailey
As students get their A-level results and graduate from university this summer, a new tranche of young people will enter the workforce....
Tolerating Failure: A Key to Creating Sustainable Business
By CB Bhattacharya, Ernesto Ciorra and Joanna Radeke
Best-in-class companies galvanise their workforces to serve a larger purpose – creating a better world. They empower...
What’s Your Superpower?
By Lauren Noël and Christie Hunter Arscott
Imagine you enter an interview for a job and an executive asks you: “What’s your superpower?” How would...
Organisational Vitality: The Life Line for Your Company
By David De Cremer
Where do you see your company many many many years from now? In this article, David De Cremer tells us the...
Why Reward for Performance Fails to Deliver
By Jonathan Trevor
Blind conformity can be very dangerous especially when it comes to managing your company’s talent. In this article, the author elaborates on...
GLOOM vs. BLOOM OF THE FUTURE OF WORK: Can We Chart A Positive Roadmap?
By Mario Raich, Simon Dolan, Dave Ulrich, and Claudio Cisullo
As the digital era is continuously in its process to ripen, discussions of destructive unforeseen...
The Art and Science of Negotiating a Job Offer
By Guido Stein and Kandarp Mehta
In every professional’s journey, there are those defining moments which can change one’s entire career. In this article, the...
The Happiness Conundrum
By Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
Based on a case example of a deeply unhappy person, this article examines the elusive topic of happiness,...
The Business of People: Effective Strategies to Drive Success in Global Business
By Sharon Schweitzer
In this article, Sharon M. Schweitzer delves into the intricacies of the global marketplace. She shares an eight-point introduction in cultivating communication...
Extrapreneurs: A More Sensible Form of Entrepreneurship?
By Maurits van Rooijen
Being an entrepreneur is exciting with greater control over one’s destiny and a more direct link between work and rewards. But...
The Five Fundamentals of Effective Performance Management
By David G. Collings and John McMackin
In this article the authors present the five issues that any organisation must tackle in order to design...
The Three Traits that are A Magic Formula for Workplace Success
By James A. Runde
The Magic Formula of Ability, Opportunity, and Courage result in countless examples of successful careers. These three attributes can make such...
Managing Difficult Personalities
By Zahir Irani and Amir Sharif
Taking a lead in handling difficult situations and difficult people can be the hardest part of any management role....
The Global Talent Management Challenge
By David G. Collings
David G. Collings outlines key factors which can effectively develop global talent management systems to drive sustainable performance based on his...
Managing People in Mergers and Acquisitions Part 2: Integration and Survival
By Guido Stein and Marta Cuadrado
In Part One, we addressed the key reasons why companies decide to pursue merger, the reasons why many...
The Missing Puzzle Piece? How Action Learning Can Help Solve the Dual Challenge of...
By Alex Makarevich, Christian Acosta-Flamma and Simon L. Dolan
To win in the “war for talent”, companies can no longer rely on conventional recruitment methods...
Why Robots May Not Be Taking Your Job – at least, not in...
How Organisations Can Embrace Automation
By Leslie Willcocks
In this article Professor Willcocks discusses the reality of robots, what they mean for ‘human’ jobs and how...
Counterwork Behaviours
By Adrian Furnham
Counterwork behaviours – CWBs – include fraud, misconduct, and work avoidance cost organisations billions every year. In this article, Professor Furnham discusses...
The Transformation Imperative Collaborative Leadership is Key For Future Success
By John Mattone
In this article, John Mattone discusses how progressive leaders in the business world are moving away from a conventional leadership culture and...
Managing People in Mergers and Acquisitions Part 1: Reasons and Reality
By Guido Stein and Marta Cuadrado
In Part One of this article we will address a number of issues related to mergers. First, we will...
Powerful Leadership Wins Employees Hearts + Minds…Gains Customers
This article explores how to use effective leadership strategies to win hearts and minds of employees to improve the bottom line. It draws attention...
Remote Teams: Managing Attitudes, Not Activity
By Drew Gurley
Managing remote teams is tricky. If attitude is the icing, function is the cake. In this article, Drew Gurley discusses why we...
Whither Talent?
By Adrian Furnham
To what end can talent be defined, sought out and developed? In this article Andrew Furnham discusses the different ideas of what...
Strategising to Win On the Global Playing Field: Making Real Strategic Choices in...
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Attract the best people. Own shares either in good ships, or in none at all. Make your ship attractive, then good people...
5 Myths about Employee Learning
Here are some common misperceptions about corporate education— and how to get beyond them.
Under what circumstances do organizations embrace a learning culture?
Often, it’s when...
Careering Off Track: The New World of Work
By Adrian Furnham
Today, the idea of a ‘job for life’ is, for many people, neither possible nor desirable. The concept of the career has,...
Talent Management 2.0: Transformation Powered By People
By Amber Román and Richard Lynch
In “Moving Beyond the Anecdotal: What Will It Take To Create Your Digital 2.0 Business Model,” we discussed our...
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