Every established organisation gets disrupted eventually. If you’re lucky enough to survive it, you’ll probably wonder why you didn’t see it coming and what you can do differently next time. A disruption management plan helps you combine elements of strategy,...
How to accommodate different learning styles in the workplace
The workplace is an incredibly diverse and unique place, filled with different types of people from all walks of life. Each individual brings their own skills and experiences to the table that make them stand out from the rest. It's important to recognise that...
Enduring, and coming out of a Pandemic: Key Takeaways
The pandemic disrupted life and work as we knew it. It was a period that compelled organisations to change the way they operated and shifted tens of millions of office employees into remote work. Pre COVID, it was hard to imagine we could work from home in the way we...
Energy Management Habit 3: Building Positive Relationships in a Virtual World
This article is a guest post from our partner Dr. Jay Chopra of Making Shift Happen. When we first moved to remote working over a year ago, video conferencing apps like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, or WebEx seemed like the perfect solution to all our communication issues....
How to build Psychological Safety within Your Team
The highest-performing teams have one thing in common: psychological safety. But what exactly is it? According to Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson, who coined the term: “Psychological safety is a belief that one will not be punished or humiliated for...
Whole Brain® Thinking in a Digital World
This guest post is a contribution from Herrmann International Asia partner, Prasad Deshpande, CEO of Empowered Learning LLP. “Preserving the status quo is not a business strategy.” Shantanu Narayen - CEO Adobe. Digital Masters Disruption caused by technology has been...
Creativity, Learning and the Specialised Brain
This article is adapted from Ned Herrmann’s original paper: Creativity, Learning and the Specialised Brain In the Context of Education for Gifted and Talented Children* I would like to acquaint you with my specialised language, which is the new language of brain...
Gender equity, diversity and thinking preferences
Simply hiring more women doesn’t solve the issue of gender equity in the workplace. Diversity without inclusion leads to burnout, turnover, a lack of parity and other challenges like those we’re seeing at an even more intensified level as a result of the pandemic....
How to thrive in a COVID-normal landscape
As tough as the past 12 months have been for many of us across the globe, we can take some solace in the fact that there will be better days ahead. 2020 will long remind us of devastating job losses and business closures. Moving forward, it should be no surprise that...