Diversity of talent is driving the need to embrace individual differences, turning inclusion into a new leadership capability. Shifts in age profiles, education, and migration, along with expectations of equality of opportunities and work life balance, are all impacting today’s organisations. The future success of these organisations will depend on a leader’s ability to optimise a diverse talent pool and develop an engaged and motivated workforce. Creating a sense of belongin

The pandemic has put business leaders to the test, leaving them more exposed than ever before. Gone are the days where leaders could make decisions from past experience, instead they had to learn to accept that they don’t have all the answers. The past 18 months have seen leaders being faced with several overlapping changes simultaneously, dealing with economic, health, and logistical crises that have unfolded at a rapid pace. As a result, business leadership has evolved. Tho

Many UK companies have created hybrid working models that are being rolled out this month, bringing employees back for two to four days a week, presenting a new challenge for leaders as they balance remote and on-site teams. According to the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2020, 78 percent of business leaders anticipated a negative effect on productivity from remote working during the pandemic. Surprisingly, to many businesses this difficult period demonstrated t

Agility is an organisational superpower – it allows teams to improve performance amid disruption. Over the recent years, there has been a significant increase in organisations adopting agile ways of working in which the organisation empowers its people to optimise their performance and to do their best work. Leaders in these organisations operate in fundamentally different ways to more traditional leaders, listening to their teams and being curious about new ideas and possibi

Organisations are currently faced with the day-to-day logistical challenges of balancing remote and in-person teams. However, there is also a new issue of addressing the biases managers may hold toward in-person and remote work. Proximity bias is a psychological phenomenon of falsely assuming people are more productive when they’re in the office, close to their superiors. As a result of the pandemic, the lines of what defines proximity are evolving, leaving leaders in search