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This month, Kate Sweeney, who leads Deloitte’s Future of Work initiative in the UK, discusses how the best businesses build collaboration into their work practices and how that culture is led from the top… How vital is it for organisations to encourage team-to-team cooperation? Team-to-team cooperation and collaboration is critical to enable organisations to achieve… Continue reading ‘Enhancing team-to-team cooperation is a first step to becoming a more agile, flexible, and responsive organisation’
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Does teamwork make the dream work?
Mollie Lombardi, Senior Research Analyst for i4cp, outlines work recently conducted by the institute which found high-performing organisations prioritise team engagement… In all the change and upheaval of the past few years, organisations big and small have hailed their employees for coming together to get thing done. Most leaders know that teams are important to… Continue reading Does teamwork make the dream work?
‘Employees are now top of the stakeholder wheel’
Ann Francke, chief executive of the Chartered Management Institute, spoke to The Loop this month about how Musk’s takeover went up against modern workforce trends and lost. The CMI has recently released a report, The Everyone Economy, which found business resilience now depends on utilising all the talent and perspectives of your workforce. Is Musk’s… Continue reading ‘Employees are now top of the stakeholder wheel’
‘Takeovers are a time to knit people together rather than exclude them’
This month, Karen Thomas-Bland, founder and director of Seven Transformation and a consultant on over 50 mergers and acquisitions, discusses why Musk’s takeover needed to balance change with stability. She recently wrote for Management Today on how to manage personal egos in a takeover, specifically focusing on Musk and Twitter. Elon Musk has wasted no… Continue reading ‘Takeovers are a time to knit people together rather than exclude them’
Could Elon Musk’s takeover knock Twitter off its perch?
Elon Musk’s rocky and controversial $44 billion takeover of the social media platform Twitter has been capturing headlines for months. Following a protracted back-and-forth over whether Musk would buy the company, the purchase was finalised in October. Since then, Musk has sacked thousands of staff, as well as the CEO and much of the leadership… Continue reading Could Elon Musk’s takeover knock Twitter off its perch?
England’s individual-focused approach v Europe’s teams-focused approach
Speaking to The Times newspaper recently, German-born and English-raised professional footballer Jamal Musiala remarked how the system of player development in Germany is more “team-based”. In contrast, the Bayern Munich midfielder said, England’s system is more focused on the individual. More and more sports teams in other countries, but also in the UK, have looked… Continue reading England’s individual-focused approach v Europe’s teams-focused approach
It’s all about creating the environment in which players can go on the pitch and run the game
Dr Bill Gerrard, Professor of Business Management at Leeds University Business School explains how player development is as much about encouraging autonomy as it is teamwork. Do you agree with Jamal Musiala’s assessment of the different player development approaches taken by European and English national sides? I took his comments to be focused more on his… Continue reading It’s all about creating the environment in which players can go on the pitch and run the game
What business can learn from sports regarding Talent Management
Alexander Thiel, Partner and Leader of McKinsey’s Sporting Goods Practice, discusses the deeper lessons businesses can take away from football clubs’ development and succession practices… I recently had an enlightening conversation about an element of professional sport – in Europe, particularly football – that, in my view, holds significant value for business and is often… Continue reading What business can learn from sports regarding Talent Management
The challenges of hybrid working
As the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world in early 2020, organisations were forced into significant changes in how they operated. We explored in our July edition last year how firms were beginning to think about the longer term implementation of hybrid systems. Since then, the challenges of such setups have become apparent. In an article in the Financial… Continue reading The challenges of hybrid working
Employers are favouring the carrot over the stick
John Whelan, Director of the Corporate Research Forum and former UK HR Director at BAE Systems, discusses how forum members are operating their hybrid working policies. As we reflect on the experience of the pandemic, it’s an opportunity for business leaders to evaluate the approaches that they have taken. Clearly, remote and flexible working are here… Continue reading Employers are favouring the carrot over the stick
