Running efficient meetings can be a difficult task under the best of circumstances. When all attendees are remote and reliant on technology, the challenge can be even greater. Here are tips for how you can help ensure your virtual meeting runs smoothly.
Continue readingHow to boost your professional skills during the lockdown
As we all settle into new ways of remote working and collaborating, now is a good time to take stock of which professional skills you have that increase your value as an employee, and which skills may need to be updated to meet changing demands.
Continue readingHow to excel at video interviewing
Job-seeking looks different these days. With businesses practicing social distancing as much as possible, traditional interviews have morphed into virtual exchanges, with video taking centre stage. Here are ways to master the “new normal” of virtual interviews.
Continue readingOur New Normal: Managing Your Remote Workforce
Our entire global business has transformed since March, with 80% of our workforce shifting to remote working in just 10 days. And we’ve seen and supported many of our clients to do the same thing.
Continue readingWhat Comes Next? Looking to the Future of Work
As we begin to see countries around the world starting to relax their lockdown measures and reduce restrictions, businesses are beginning to create plans for a return to a new normal. Early waves from South Korea and Singapore, and now New Zealand, the Nordics, Spain, Italy and others are planning how to ease thousands of employees safely back to work in the coming weeks and months, providing businesses in the UK with the opportunity to learn from examples globally.
Continue readingHow Leaders Can Foster Innovation in Times of Crisis
In times of uncertainty, the importance of strong leadership increases. Team leaders set the tone for how an organisation responds to change, as well as keeping the team morale up. Businesses need to be guided with a steady and reassuring hand, and at the same time be able to pivot and respond with agility when the situation demands it.
Continue readingCareer Development Advice for Remote Workers
Workplace requirements are constantly changing and evolving. Increasingly, today’s workers understand that they need to grow and adapt their skill sets throughout their working life to keep up and remain employable.
Continue readingPlanning for Workforce Uncertainty
Many companies find themselves in unchartered waters this year, as they establish new remote working strategies and recruitment processes to meet the current need for social distancing.
Continue readingTeaching from home – Resources for parents working remotely
At a time when 87% of the world’s student population is affected by school closures, it is more important than ever that working parents have the support they need to juggle their workload in addition to managing the home schedules of their children.
Continue readingLooking out for your mental health while working remotely
In a matter of just a few weeks, the coronavirus outbreak has prompted perhaps the largest ever experiment in remote working. Across all six continents, we’ve seen a significant portion of businesses moving their operations online at speed, with many workers being instructed to switch their workstations from the usual confines of the office, to the comfort of their own homes.
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