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May 2022

Healthy Office Politics

HBR’s (Harvard Business Review) analysis demonstrated that disengagement with workplace politics is a result of a toxic culture. Negative politics can have a nasty downside and can derail relationships and performance. And once it becomes part of the organisation’s culture it can be exceedingly difficult to remedy.   Among the negative experiences were exclusions from informal…

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Workforce Ecosystem Management

What is Workforce Ecosystem Management?  MIT Sloan Management Review and Deloitte define Workforce Ecosystems as a structure that aligns business and workforce strategies.  Successful leaders are understanding the complexity of these workforce ecosystems and modifying their management techniques to support these new systems, according to this report, as firms increasingly rely on both internal and…

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prepare for the next covid wave
Be Prepared For The Next Wave Of Covid

“The pandemic is not done, and corporations must be prepared for whatever the pandemic throws at them next, with the Omicron BA.2 strain and its progeny growing prevalent and protection to infections and immunisations fading.” Patricia Toro, Jeff Levin-Scherz, and John M. Bremen  According to the authors, most of us suffer from pandemic fatigue after…

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change exhaustion
Change Exhaustion, Do Something!

Adapted from: HBR| Managers, What Are You Doing About Change Exhaustion? |  By Mollie West Duffy and Liz Fosslien “Change fatigue. Resilience fatigue. Agility fatigue. WFH fatigue. Video-conference fatigue. Online schooling fatigue. Restriction fatigue. Conflict fatigue. Fatigue fatigue. 2020 – the international year of fatigue.” (digital health consultant Simon Terry) When the pandemic hit, everything…

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5 Practices for an Inclusive Hybrid Workplace
5 Practices for an Inclusive Hybrid Workplace

5 Practices for an Inclusive Hybrid Workplace A hybrid workplace paradigm combines in-office and remote work to provide employees with flexibility and support. Employees in a hybrid workplace often have more autonomy and a better work-life balance and are therefore more engaged—building a more productive, healthy, and stable workforce that benefits employers. When developing hybrid…

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