Flexible working post-COVID: focus on productivity, teamwork and communication

Every job should be flexible unless there is a business reason for it not to be, argues Sam Smethers. But when work takes up permanent residence in your home, you need to ask these key questions in order to protect worker productivity and wellbeing.

How diversity can be leveraged to drive organizational performance

Greater diversity doesn’t necessarily equal better performance, and organizations still have to be mindful of how diversity is managed in order to improve performance, writes Richard Holden

Five questions to help evaluate your virtual team building

Forming effective teams has new challenges when you have never met in person, learn how do it, and make sure the team has the bonds necessary to work together.

Home alone or office drone? How to get the balance right

Home working has become part of the furniture. How can companies design flexible working strategies to boost productivity and well-being?

Managing mixed emotions coming back to the office: Part 1 of 3

Coming back into contact with more colleagues as COVID-19 subsides will give rise to a whole host of emotions. In part 1 of 3, learn how to remind your nervous system you’re not in immediate danger.

Why HR can make or break any M&A deal

Too many companies looking to buy out or join forces with their rivals ignore the risks posed by differences between workforces and corporate culture.

How to boost your team’s immunity to conflict: Step 5 of 5

Destructive conflict is often rooted in perceived incompatibilities between team members. By being proactive and surfacing these upfront, when the pressure is off, managers can inoculate teams against future blow-ups.

How to boost your team’s immunity to conflict: Step 3 of 5

Destructive conflict is often rooted in perceived incompatibilities between team members. By being proactive and surfacing these upfront, when the pressure is off, managers can inoculate teams against future blow-ups.

How to boost your team’s immunity to conflict: Step 2 of 5

Destructive conflict is often rooted in perceived incompatibilities between team members. By being proactive and surfacing these upfront, when the pressure is off, managers can inoculate teams against future blow-ups.

The office is not dead… yet

Creativity could become a casualty of the new workplace order if you don’t reassess the functions that workspaces need to serve as employees embrace a new hybrid model of working.

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