Unlocking leadership
As the UK economy emerges from the constraints of lockdown leaders are facing complex choices over how to re-open offices and balance the needs of the business with those of individuals and workplace teams who have become accustomed to collaborating virtually. You can read the full series of blog posts here that share our experiences and reflections.
Unlocking leadership #6 Making hybrid working work for you
As government restrictions are lifted it falls to individual employers to decide the right balance of home and office-based working to ensure; the safety of employees, the performance of the business, the sustainable development of new products/services and the...
Unlocking Leadership #5 – Managing Performance
In our last blog we discussed the challenges of establishing a new team in a new workplace. Leaders are increasingly aware that there will be real tensions balancing the needs of the individual with the needs of the team and ultimately the business. Already we are...
Unlocking leadership #4 – how do I lead my team?
In some ways ‘how do I lead my team?’ might seem an unnecessary question for a leadership blog – after all we’ve all been working incredibly hard to lead teams over the last 14 months of lockdown and learnt a lot in the process. But as we take cautious steps along the...
Unlocking leadership #3 – What do I say?
Back in the office for the first time and I realised that the transition from home of office working is not a trivial change. It felt exciting, unsettling, and disorientating and that was just the commute! And working so close to other people will take some getting...
Unlocking leadership #2 – How do you look?
In the second of our reflections on the leadership challenges of unlocking the economy, and steering teams through a phased return to a mix of office and home based working, we consider the unspoken signals you will send in your first face-to-face interactions with...
Unlocking Leadership in 2021 – post #1
It was 12 months ago this week that we signed up for a Zoom account and started to work out how to ensure the sustainability of our business when the emerging pandemic had run its course. One element of our plan was to share our thinking and our experience with...
