Digital transformation has been an organizational goal for quite some time now. Recently, companies being forced to move their operations online proved to be the ultimate digital transformation test. ...
Talking about leadership development, most materials focus on identifying high potential candidates and ensuring they access the programs needed to achieve that potential. However, the subject of high...
Experts say that the next decade will be a disruptive one for the economy, our society, and our culture. In some respects, things have begun to undergo a rapid change, with the Covid-19 pandemic being...
During the on and off lockdowns of 2020, art was perhaps the best way to cope with isolation and the impossibility of seeing our family or friends. Just a quick note, in Portugal, one of the major pub...
While the "stay at home" orders more or less took companies by surprise (meaning that they were not at all prepared to deal with the implications), it’s been fairly clear for months now that once the ...
Having employee training programs might be the best decision you could make to improve employee productivity. It’s beneficial for your business, and your employees would appreciate it because it’s con...
A few years ago, Ugo Bardi, an Italian professor at the University of Florence, found inspiration in the works of the Roman stoic philosopher Seneca, who famously said: “Fortune is of sluggish growth,...
It’s easy for anyone to realize that the plans made at the start of 2020 were not followed through to the letter. The year turned out to be one for contingency plans and putting out small fires while ...
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit our country, it effectively changed business as we know it. Some companies were forced to close their doors, while others had to move to a remote workforce to ensure saf...
My social media seems to be flooded lately with all kinds of memes about 2020 finally being over (with hopes that the health crisis will also end), and everyone is happy about it. There are also many ...
We seem to live (and I cannot stress enough the word “seem”) in the Golden Age of productivity, both in our personal and professional lives. Just a quick scroll on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter and ...
Over a decade ago, Professor Amy Edmondson of Harvard Business School set out to study the learning organization and what could be done so companies would learn better from their experiences. In her o...
Leadership was challenging even before the year 2020 surprised us all and turned the world upside down. Since March, businesses and individuals have struggled to make the best of an otherwise bad situ...
Coaching is a powerful leadership tool and an asset to any organization. The key is to manage to incorporate it into the corporate culture rather than using it as a purely conceptual thing that looks ...
A version of this post was originally published on October 19, 2020, in HR news. Covid-19 has transformed the way businesses operate today, forcing many to adopt more agile and remote working practice...
There are a few over-used terms that find their way into any organizational development plan – one of them is coaching. Everyone has a general idea about what it entails (the noun itself is rather sel...
