The importance of leadership cannot be undermined in any situation or organisation. Leaders can guide the team to safety during a crisis. All they have to do is assure, empathise, build trust, and communicate.
Summary: The breadth of change for leaders and their teams during the global pandemic has been dramatic: what we are doing, how we are working, when, and of course, where. Leaders need to build resilience—their teams’ as well as their own—in order to thrive in today’s times.
Summary: What is the secret to leadership? How can a leader impact each team member’s drive and passion for their jobs while also improving their overall health and well-being? In the end, how can an organisation achieve excellence? Building trust through care and compassion may just be the answer
Summary: It is generally very difficult to build and sustain resonant relationships in the present demanding and stressful times. What is it that resonant leaders do that makes them more successful than those that aren’t, when it comes to leading a team?
Summary: Navigating the intense pressure at work requires resilience, but this time of change is special—it also requires leaders to take a step back, to engage their most innovative and strategic thinking, and to practise a unique self-discipline that will enable them to activate their organisations for a new world.
Summary: Resilience is a deep-rooted attribute that flows from the culture of an organisation, through the senior management, and down to the employees. Resilient organisations begin with resilient teams that are made of resilient individuals.
Summary: Resilience should be understood as the ability of an organisation to be ready to adapt to any unnatural, adverse event that has the potential to cripple it (the organisation).
Summary: What is the difference between organisations that have successful remote teams and those who do not? Thought productivity is the first thing that might come to one’s mind, it is not the only factor. It is the members of the team working cohesively, as true teammate that matters.
Summary: The A.C.C. of Leadership is about three powerful words—Awareness, Choice, and Care—that have the potential to change our lives. All that is required on our part is to understand and implement them.
Summary: It is a far from a level playing field for women in the workplace, but the key to improving it is to recognise issues like the likeability paradox and developing ways to deal with it.
Cultivating emotional resilience is a leader’s number one job in these disruptive times. A leader’s ability to cultivate emotional resilience in oneself and others is to be a hope merchant.
Empathetic leadership is not for the fainthearted. It is always-on, it may be costly in terms of time, and it needs to be trained. But when all is said and done, it is a choice we absolutely need more leaders to make.