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 –

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

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.

It’s a Small, Small World – How to Get Global Understanding for Business

May 13, 2020 26 min read In: Consulting Leadership Tags: communication, global, global understanding, globalisation, international business, leadership By: robertkovach 0 Comment

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 today. And truly appreciating how local culture and politics and instincts are different from one place to another requires more than the occasional business trip.

How do you get truly get more global understanding for business?

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Working as a Team Remotely… Suddenly and Indefinitely

Apr 22, 2020 34 min read In: Teams Tags: leaders, leadership, remote teams, remote work, teamwork By: robertkovach 0 Comment

For many organisations around the world, working as a team remotely has become a part of the new normal. With the pandemic of COVID-19 continuing to impact so many countries, and social distancing being a major part of mitigation, employers are trying to help workers stay at home.

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You, 2.0 – Keep Reinventing Yourself Throughout Your Career

Mar 11, 2020 24 min read In: Careers Tags: Career, career advice, Career Growth, generational change, growth, leadership By: robertkovach 0 Comment

A few years ago I wrote a blog called “If you think you’ve ‘arrived’ you’re in trouble!”, warning people of the importance of continually reinventing yourself. My point in that blog was that I often see people work very hard their entire careers, and then reach what they see as the pinnacle of success. But, that is the moment at which they stop pushing themselves, stop learning, and just enjoy the view instead of creating something new up there. That’s

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