How Do Teams Benefit Leaders? In Every Way Imaginable.

Nov 25, 2020 26 min read In: Leadership Uncategorized Tags: leaders, leadership, management, teamwork, workplace By: robertkovach 0 Comment

Why do we have leaders? The answer is all in the name, right? We can’t get to where we’re going, if it’s more than one of us, without someone to lead us there. We need someone to make the tough decisions, or plan the strategy, or communicate on behalf of everyone else. Ok, yes, to all of that. But that’s what everyone else gets – the followers, if you will. What does a leader get out of being the leader? How do teams benefit leaders? The obvious answers are power, or accolades or whatever. That’s probably true –

Is Flexibility on Your CV? The Skills Companies Need Now

Oct 28, 2020 27 min read In: Leadership Tags: communication, company culture, crisis leadership, Success, workplace By: robertkovach 0 Comment

Hiring in 2020 is down. That is hardly a headline in the midst of a pandemic that has impacted millions of people around the world and nearly every country on earth. But, companies do have to find ways to keep operating, and they’ll need to be able to do so in an environment that looks a lot more like 2020 and a lot less like. . .ever before. Let’s not call it post-coronavirus; let’s say post-coronavirus reaction. What do companies need as they hire with an expectation that where we are now is the scenario for at least

What we’ve learned and what to do next — Getting companies ready for 2021

Oct 14, 2020 33 min read In: Leadership Tags: company strategy, crisis leadership, decision-making, digital transformation, leadership, strategy By: robertkovach 0 Comment

Chief technology officers and heads of people development & management will be front and center in 2021. The future of the workplace is a digital workplace. However, as much as we thought we had technologically advanced in the last couple of decades, 2020 has completely changed the landscape. One Deloitte study articulated that one of the toughest balances facing companies getting ready for 2021 is “the tension between preparing for a return to previous activities and routines — getting back to work— while also embracing a new reality — rethinking work.” CTOs will play

Coaching Through COVID — Managing People During Coronavirus

Sep 23, 2020 25 min read In: Leadership Tags: company culture, crisis leadership, crisis management, leadership, management, workplace By: robertkovach 0 Comment

Around the world, 2020 is going to be remembered as extraordinarily difficult. The coronavirus pandemic has passed the six-month mark, and impacted millions around the world. Sadly, it’s not only not over, it’s very possibly going to have another wave this autumn. With a vaccine months away, at best, we have to learn to live with COVID-19 as a new way of life, not an event to get past. In our work lives, that affects a lot of how we do things. Managing people during coronavirus, for example, is now largely done remotely. And we need to do

Breaking the Bias: Institutional Racism in Companies

Sep 9, 2020 36 min read In: Diversity & Inclusion Tags: bias, cognative bias, cognitive diversity, diversity, generational change, leadership By: robertkovach 0 Comment

One issue for companies is that companies are made up of people. Seriously – we sometimes speak breathlessly about what a company does as if it is a living breathing thing, be it monster or miracle, making choices independent of any human force. Organisations are not progressive or traditional or inclusive or not; the people who work in them make decisions that support – intentionally or not — a corporate culture and develop a reputation. That said, there are both individual acts and collective choices that happen inside of companies that are different from individual private acts. When

Higher Standards to Hire: Recruiting Diverse Employees

Aug 26, 2020 26 min read In: Diversity & Inclusion Tags: diversity, employee recruiting, hiring, hiring strategy, recruiting, team dynamics By: robertkovach 0 Comment

In the two months since the death of George Floyd, the Black Lives Matter movement has swept across America, and frankly, much of the globe. The conversations and the actions that have followed in the wake of Floyd’s death touch almost every element of daily life. Some are more momentous, such as the toppling of Edward Colston into the sea, others more nuanced in personal and professional circles. Many corporations are trying to take active measures to improve how they are recruiting diverse employees. But old patterns can be hard to change, even despite the best efforts.

Finding Real Talent Virtually: Interviewing During Coronavirus

Aug 12, 2020 23 min read In: HR Tags: crisis leadership, crisis management, hiring, hiring strategy, interviewing, talent mix By: robertkovach 0 Comment

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 quality candidates, but accommodate the realities of social distancing?

Never Waste a Crisis — Shifting to Long-Term Digital Transformation During Coronavirus

Jul 22, 2020 30 min read In: Workplace Tags: crisis leadership, crisis management, digital era, digital transformation, leadership, technology By: robertkovach 0 Comment

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. If there is a silver lining to world events this year, it might be that necessity has not only bred invention but provided the platform for long-term digital transformation during coronavirus. For businesses everywhere, digital transformation begun during coronavirus was employed as a

Policing the Professionals: What I’ve Learned About the African-American Experience

Jul 8, 2020 40 min read In: Diversity & Inclusion Tags: diversity, Diversity 2.0, inclusion, leadership, leadership skill, professional, teamwork By: robertkovach 0 Comment

The last few weeks have brought to the forefront a reckoning of American values and our history of race relations.

COVID and Gender: The Pandemic Impacts Men and Women Differently

Jun 17, 2020 25 min read In: Diversity & Inclusion Tags: Career, career advice, gender diversity, leadership, workforce By: robertkovach 0 Comment

The pandemic impacts men and women differently, and perhaps not in the ways you might expect. Some of those differences are related to each gender’s roles in society, and some to do with how men and women react to and process situations.

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