What is the difference between leadership and management? Stephen Covey says: “Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.” Kathy Austin, a management consultant, is pithier. “Managers light a fire under people; leaders light a fire in people.” Here’s a third view, that…
Building resilience at work is about workplace and workforce There’s a tendency to think that organisational resilience is just the sum total of everyone’s personal resilience at work. That your people should have what one football manager described as ‘bouncebackability’. The belief that some people respond well to problems and stresses, and some people just…
What you need to know about how we’re keeping us all safe Our Venue and Head Office in Horsham is open for programmes, meetings and events. We have been successfully operating throughout the pandemic and have a strong record of serving our clients and keeping them safe. At Roffey Park Institute we’re doing everything we can…
Jackie Brown & Dr Arlene Egan In October 2019, speaking at a Human Resources and Talent conference in Croke Park, one of us (Arlene) told a story about the resilient organisation. The point being made was that in times of crisis a resilient organisation can respond effectively to maintain a level of productivity and to…
Covid-19 has transformed the world, and with it the future of work and business. What should we be thinking about? How should we begin to prepare for the new future? What’s the future of business? What’s the future of work? And how do we prepare for future business trends? The world looks a very different…
Wellbeing in the workplace: How important is well-being in organisations in crisis situations? How do we create it? Does it mean thinking differently about staff, leadership and organisation? Well-being in the workplace is more important than ever because of the coronavirus crisis: learn how to evaluate and strengthen your organisation’s culture. Covid-19 has brought new…
How do you support your staff and your organisation to create resilience in people and structures? Resilience in the workplace is more important than ever because of coronavirus: learn how to evaluate and strengthen your organisation’s culture. Covid-19 has brought new challenges to the workplace, highlighting the importance of resilience and wellbeing, refocusing how we…
What is the future for our organisations after Covid-19? Business scenario planning and future thinking will be vital: do you know how to think the unthinkable? Covid-19 has brought new challenges to the workplace, highlighting the importance of resilience and wellbeing, refocusing how we think about scenario planning, and insisting we consider the future. In this short…
What is managing remote teams? If we’d asked this question before March 2020, the answers would have been very different to now, when most organisations have had a crash course in managing employees working from home. I’ve been a social scientist looking at this area for almost 15 years, and it has been fascinating to…
What are the seven key things that a manager or leader needs to be or do? What do they need to develop? These questions have been at the heart of my working life for many years. But the demands and pressures of working remotely during the Covid-19 lockdown have, for me, brought into sharper focus…
Expert managers are vital to the building and development of successful organisations. Progressive, inclusive and precise, an effective manager increases engagement, improves retention, and drives productivity. In an international environment where regulation and oversight are increasingly stringent and complex and where organisations are increasingly diverse, skilled management has never been so important. Roffey Park’s Management Development programmes…
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…
