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“Building a high-perfoming team requires an effective understanding of your employees and their behavioral traits – how they think, how they interact with others, and what key skills are driving their success in your organization.” Benchmark the traits of top performers in each function, unique to your organization. In our last edition, we heard from Sven Houthuys and Tom Welchman, both… Continue reading What does being ‘future-ready’ mean?
Category: In our humble opinion
Organizational evolution and getting empowerment right
Sven Houthuys and Tom Welchman, Parters at McKinsey & Co, write on how properly guided and supported empowerment offers to be the great management challenge of our times. The 4th industrial revolution—the promise of growth and prosperity from a machine intelligence-enabled era of change—has been at the forefront of conversations about production for several years.… Continue reading Organizational evolution and getting empowerment right
“Cognitive diversity is an essential driver behind organizational competitiveness and profitability”
The Loop’s editor, Ab Banerjee, outlines the initial findings of ViewsHub’s pioneering study into cognitive diversity within the world’s leading law firms and management consultancies. In previous editions, we’ve written about ViewsHub’s mission to empower every team in every organization to achieve high performance. This commitment is aimed at boosting productivity and profitability, elevating client service levels,… Continue reading “Cognitive diversity is an essential driver behind organizational competitiveness and profitability”
“As the importance of the CPO continues to elevate and the role evolves, CEOs should set the expectation of the CPO being a strategic partner”
As companies determine what the future of work looks like, battle a tight talent market, and adjust to increasing economic pressures, the Chief People Officer’s (CPO) role continues to evolve. The CPO role was originally created to draft and execute policy that guides the company through the legal issues of labor management. Today, many people… Continue reading “As the importance of the CPO continues to elevate and the role evolves, CEOs should set the expectation of the CPO being a strategic partner”
‘What happens when the praise has run dry and critical feedback must be delivered?’
Dr Roger Barker, Director of Policy and Governance for the Institute of Directors, sets out how board directors can benefit from critical feedback, including from external stakeholders… Praise is more effective than criticism, according to Dale Carnegie’s seminal self-help book ‘How To Win Friends And Influence People’, first published in 1936. Carnegie was certainly onto… Continue reading ‘What happens when the praise has run dry and critical feedback must be delivered?’
‘If you can’t measure something, you can’t improve it’
The Loop’s editor Ab Banerjee outlines how ViewsHub’s platform will empower teams in organizations to measure and improve their psychological safety, cognitive diversity, and growth mindset… Our mission at ViewsHub is to empower every team in every organization to become high-performing, and as a consequence, boost productivity and profitability, enhance client service levels, break down organizational silos,… Continue reading ‘If you can’t measure something, you can’t improve it’
The evolving role of the Chief People Officer
Micah Alpern, Senior Managing Director within Teneo‘s people advisory team, writes how Chief People Officers ought to drive employee experience and higher performance with the backing of data. As companies determine what the future of work looks like, battle a tight talent market and adjust to increasing economic pressures, the Chief People Officer’s (CPO) role continues to evolve. The CPO… Continue reading The evolving role of the Chief People Officer
Instilling purpose in a senior team
Senior Client Partners for Korn Ferry Janet Feldman, who co-developed the firm’s Chief Executive Institute, and Michel Buffet, who works in the Leadership Development practice, write how CEOs should confront the need to change their work and that of their top team. PwC’s annual survey of more than 4,000 global CEOs, on full display at Davos, asked whether they think their company… Continue reading Instilling purpose in a senior team
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?
‘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’
