Finding Real Talent Virtually: Interviewing During Coronavirus
While many companies are suffering difficult financial circumstances during the pandemic, there are of course, still organisations recruiting, interviewing and hiring. And while interviews by videoconference are hardly new, for many an entirely virtual process is not the typical process. So how do you adjust interviewing during coronavirus? How do you maintain standards to ensure […]
The “Scary Times” Success Manual
Transforming current anxieties and fear into strategic growth, progress, and achievement. At Strategic Coach®, our business is helping successful entrepreneurs increase their sense of direction, confidence, and capability in all areas of their personal and business lives. We originally created the piece below by request from our clients in response to the climate of fear, […]
Never Waste a Crisis — Shifting to Long-Term Digital Transformation During Coronavirus
Most days organisations don’t make long-term, enterprise-wide decisions based on current events. But these are not most days. The coronavirus has shifted from an unexpected, life-altering, abrupt event, to a universal, dominant, ongoing presence in our lives. In fact, “presence”, understates it. It has become the lens through which we see most of our decisions. […]
Policing the Professionals: What I’ve Learned About the African-American Experience
The last few weeks have brought to the forefront a reckoning of American values and our history of race relations. Here in Britain, it’s been echoed by brown and black people and the discrimination they face in the UK. The conversation is largely about the brutal treatment of police in the most extreme situations. That’s […]
How the pandemic impacts men and women differently
According to one poll, 68% of female respondents worried about contracting COVID compared to 56% of men. And that’s true despite reporting than men actually tend to suffer worse outcomes if they contract the virus. So the pandemic impacts men and women differently, and perhaps not in the ways you might expect. Some of those differences […]
What to Do About Corporate Culture During the Pandemic
During these difficult times, there’s constant anxiety on both a personal and professional level. Everyone is on high alert about their own health, as well as their loved ones. For those negatively impacted economically, there’s fear about making rent and paying bills. And for those still working, many are trying to adjust to an office […]
It’s a Small, Small World – How to Get Global Understanding for Business
As globalisation has become the business norm (and frankly, our personal norms too), it’s become more important than ever to understand that almost nothing is local anymore. Or at least, not local in the way that it was thirty or even twenty years ago. It’s key to get the global understanding vital for corporate success […]
Working as a Team Remotely .Suddenly and Indefinitely
How to make working as a team remotely successful: Recognize this is not easy. With so much technology in our lives, it seems on first glance that dialing into a videoconference and getting on Slack can replace all our in-person operations. That’s not really true. For one, videoconferencing is really best for meetings – pre-planned appointments […]
Managing High Potentials without cloning – Insights
High Potentials, through their specific abilities and skills, are accountable for the organization’s future performance and success. In the meantime, HR is currently facing a major challenge retaining these talented individuals, as well as anticipate and secure the implementation of strategic positions, combined with a necessity to ensure leadership skills development across the organization. According […]
API – Global Meeting in Barcelona
Last 20th and 21st of November a representer of each of API’s members gathered in Barcelona to take part in a General Assembly.