I decided to write this blog because I have been coaching several leaders and managers who have taken up new leading team roles and six months later are struggling with the dynamics within their teams. They are struggling with teams that have performed well in the past but have struggled to transition to the new…
A manager once told me that his approach to staff development was to push them into the deep end and see if they could swim. That’s may seem a bit extreme. On the other hand we can plan a long drawn out development programme where after two years the staffer would have finally gotten the…
I do not know of a single organisation at the moment that is not going through change and adapting quickly to the COVID crisis. Much of the change is forced by the circumstances we face. Few organisations three or five year strategic plans had factored in a global pandemic. So it is no wonder that…
One of the great blessings of looking forward to Christmas and the New Year is that we may finally get away from the constant demand for another virtual meeting. We probably hear the phrase – not another ZOOM meeting quite often these days. As we move into the virtual world managers are finding it increasingly…
As more and more facilitation and development works move into the sphere of virtual training what have we learnt? I have noticed the conversations among associates and learning professional has moved on to what people have noticed about the difference between virtual facilitation and the real world. Here are a few observations you may find…
Has the COVID-19 crisis affected your motivation and the motivation of your team? The motivation of remote workers is a growing concern for managers. One of the devastating impacts of the virus has been on the stability of work, there was the furlough scheme, a massive increase in part-time or home-based work, and the even…
COVID-19, Self-Isolation, Social-Distancing and Lockdown, new words in our everyday vocabulary. We are in a strange crisis, a battle with an unseen enemy. There is still a lot we don’t know and what we know adds to the complexity of the situation. We don’t know fully what the impact will be, how long this will…
