Meysam Poorkavoos and Ana Karakusevic What does the future hold for the workplace? We can’t step into a time machine to find the answer, but we know already that automation and AI will have a huge impact and there is growing disquiet about the skills and capabilities that humans will need in the future. Research…
The old stereotype of dictarial bosses no longer holds. Today’s leaders are more aware and face a more complex set of challenges. Good leaders tend to fall into one of 10 categories, but truly effective leaders are able to adopt different styles to suit different teams and projects. Which type of leader are you? View…
The need to re-structure and change organisations has been around for centuries. Whether it be the odd Roman Emperor rearranging his palaces to fit in a new arena, Kings and Queens purging minions and installing whole new departments of acolytes, right through to football managers, Prime Ministers and Presidents (although given current trends ‘organisation’ is…
“Crazy”, “stupid”, “dangerous” are some of the words that Singaporean teenagers thought of when asked about mental illness, showing there is much to do with stigma and mental health. In the same report, 46.2% of respondents, who were aged between 14 and 18, also said they would be “very embarrassed” if they were diagnosed with…
In 1993, the American psychologist James Hillman published a book called “We’ve had a hundred years of psychotherapy and the world’s getting worse”. In our Management Agenda 2019 survey of 760 managers in the UK and Ireland, almost three-quarters agreed that work-related mental health and well-being issues are on the increase. Yet only 40% of…
Try this. Stand up, relax your shoulders and take in a deep breath. Hold it for a second and then let the air out slowly through loosely closed lips. While doing that, hum a single continuous tone. If you’re doing it right your lips should vibrate as the air passes between them. This is a…
It was the morning after the night before. And as the mist from the National Day fireworks cleared, the roar of the jets stopped ringing in our ears, and tears at the meticulously choreographed pageant were wiped away, the word “transformation” seemed justifiably applied to Singapore. Once ridiculed as the ‘the red dot’, referring to…
8 tips for doing shared leadership the right way If you’ve worked in more than one organisation, you’ll know how much impact different leaders can have. Efficiency, productivity, morale and retention are all affected by how leaders operate, often more significantly than other factors such as salaries. Personality has an impact, but it’s leadership style…
Roffey Park Institute have appointed Dr Angus Cameron as its Academic Operations Director with responsibility for teaching, learning and research activities. With an extensive academic, creative teaching and research career in higher education his primary role will be to create innovative, engaging and challenging programmes relevant to a rapidly changing business environment. Roffey Park’s Chief Executive Office,…
If we understand organisations as patterns of interactions, then interactions within groups and the whole organisation is at the heart of OD. For the OD practitioner’s group work, ‘awareness’ and ‘intention’ are the ‘air we breathe’ whether working with large or small groups , and whatever the purpose. ‘Awareness’ of what’s happening for you, the…
There are two different concepts here: the most effective leadership style in your workplace, and the most effective leadership style for you. Who you are will have a bearing on the kind of leader you become, and how effective you are in that role. Experience, context, training, coaching, facilitation and reflection will help you to…
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Let’s start with the why. Why would you want to improve your influencing skills at work? You’re a manager and people are going to do what you want them to, right? Sadly, it doesn’t always work like that. While you might have the power to compel people to do as you demand, that doesn’t mean…
