HYBRID WORK
Adapting to the Loss of Office Osmosis: How Hybrid Team Managers Can Succeed
Managers can't rely on office osmosis in a hybrid working world
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HYBRID WORK
The Challenge of Hybrid Work Friction
Hybrid Work Friction is the gap between optimal work in ideal working conditions in the office and the actual performance of a hybrid team.
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HYBRID WORK
Using Documentation to Overcome Hybrid Work Friction
In a hybrid work environment, where communication can be more challenging, effective documentation is crucial for teams to stay aligned, productive, and successful.
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Tackling the L&D Leader’s Hybrid Work Challenge
The shift to hybrid work has brought about several new challenges for L&D leaders, one of the main challenges being upgrading the managers' hybrid work and leadership capabilities. This is harder than it sounds.
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Want To Know How The Pandemic Changed Your Company Culture?
Finding the balance between empathy and performance
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Scale
Your Hybrid Work Solution - Online Course Coming Soon
Hybrid work is too important to not have a plan
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9 Hybrid Work Challenges Every Leader Must Face
Leaders are going to have to rethink how they lead - here's why
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Why culture development is now a top 3 leadership priority
You can't ignore your culture any longer
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12 leadership tips for building an effective hybrid work culture.
As we progress towards the post-pandemic world of hybrid work, it is critical that business leaders understand that the future of work requires an operating system reboot.
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Cool content
The Butt Naked CEO Webinar
CEOs relied on their office space to develop their company’s culture, and now they’re finding it’s all falling apart remotely.
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How 165 Startups Are Adapting To Work-From-Home
How leaders are adapting to forced remote working
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Cool content
Cracking The Code Of Remote Working: Lessons From The Future Of Work
Building and managing remote teams isn't easy. Andreas Klinger the Head of Remote for AnegelList shares lessons learned.
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Growth stage
How To Create A Website With The X Factor: The SalesLoft Example
Your website should do more than attract customers. Learn how SalesLoft use their website to help win the war for talent
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What You Can Learn From The Facebook Culture Crisis?
How Mark Zuckerberg lost control of his company's culture
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Why You Must Foster Trust If You Are To Create A Compelling Company Culture
The critical factor that determines the extent to which a team will be high performers: psychological safety
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Early stage
Startup due diligence begins with your cofounder(s)
The potential pitfalls of cofounding a company
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Creating A Compelling Company Culture? Pay Attention To What ISN'T Being Said.
Listen to what is not being said to understanding what your company culture
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Early stage
Why You Should Think Carefully About Hiring Based On Likeability
Should you hire people like you or not?
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Cool content
Are You A Deliberately Developmental Leader? Here's Why You Should Be.
The four fundamental principles to being a deliberately developmental leader
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How We Sense Company Culture And Why It Matters
The reason why we want to buy from, work for or support certain companies
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Netflix Is Not the Problem: In Defense of Strong Organizational Cultures
A recent analysis of Netflix's culture fails to mention that none of the critiques should be news to Netflix employees.
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Why Every Business Needs a Culture Deck -- And How to Create One
A strong, well-designed culture deck becomes an extremely effective tool in communicating exactly how the company operates, giving the people insight into the company's mission, values, vision and purpose.
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Netflix's Company Culture Is Not For Everybody And That's Exactly How It Should Be
Reed Hastings and his company Netflix are not the first culture-driven organization to catch flak for their strong culture. In this article for Forbes I explore a recent article Shalini Ramachandran and Joe Flint of The Wall Street Journal interviewed 70 current and former Netflix employees, picking apart the culture describing the environment as “ruthless, demoralizing and transparent to the point of dysfunctional.”
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Growth stage
How To Build A Culture Of Trust In A Large Remote Team
In interview Tamara Littleton the founder & CEO of The Social Element (formerly Emoderation) is an award-winning social media management agency with a global reach, remote team and fascinating culture.
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Growth stage
How Lazy Is Your Recruitment Process?
As a Forbes contributor I write about the difference between hiring for values fit vs culture fit
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What lumbering giants like GE & Microsoft do to adapt and change their corporate cultures
How do you drive a culture with hundreds of thousands of employees
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Scale
Get Big ($3 Billion Big) By Staying Small (Part I)
Lessons from WL Gore & Associates, the original "Culture First" Company
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Cool content
The very best company culture decks on the web
Explore how companies like Netflix, Facebook, Etsy, Spotify and Buffer use their culture decks as a tool to describe their unique culture and embed their values, mission, vision and purpose into their organisations
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Growth stage
I want to join a company that….
If I was looking for a job right now what would I want to see from the ideal company?
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Growth stage
“Take 3 weeks’ vacation or you're fired!”
Mark Organ sold Eloqua, his first company for £871m. Here he talks about the culture mistakes he made at Eloqua and how he is rectifying them at Influitive.
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Growth stage
Happy living for everyone… except the British!
How Maarten Roerink built Guidion from 25 to 1500 people in 9 years
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Law
A very different type of law firm
"We try to create an environment where we respect everyone as individuals and try to treat everyone based on their needs."
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Early stage
How biophilic is your office?
What is the impact of biophilic design, what options are there to include biophilic design in your office and why is it so important to do so?
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Announcements
“Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast” breakfast event review
Review of the "Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast" breakfast event co-hosted with Silicon Valley Bank
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Early stage
The value you get from kissing frogs
"If you are joining the company in your 20s, unlike when I joined, you're going to learn to code. It doesn't matter whether you are in sales, finance or operations. You may not end up being a programmer, but you will know how to code." Jeff Immelt, GE CEO
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PR & Comms
How to avoid hiring sociopaths and why the customer is not always right
Hiring senior executives is quite a challenge in our industry as they, more often than not, have already learnt the bad habits and working practices that we avoid at Ballou PR.
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Scale
The "culture advantage" and how to build a rock star team with no budget
Unlock the “culture advantage” by tapping into your team’s discretionary mental capacity and time.
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Announcements
"Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast" breakfast event
A fireside chat, panel discussion and presentation on company culture co-hosted with Silicon Valley Bank
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Scale
How does a start-up company become a perpetual learning machine?
The 6 parts required to build your company into a perpetual learning machine
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Growth stage
Winnow takes a bite out of Apple’s playbook.
How "Purpose" helps to develop a tangible advantage when it comes to employee happiness and commitment, hiring, fund raising, working with customers and developing business partnerships
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Scale
On the culture of anti-culture: No wankers and no bastards!
According to John Thompson the CEO there was a definitive moment in the company where he could tell that dysfunction had started to build up and they needed to invoke a change.
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Scale
HIRING SLOW, FIRING FAST - how to get the most from your company’s probation period
I have never come across any company that applies the rigor and discipline to solving the probation period problem the way AudioBooks does.
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Early stage
Preparing for the TechStars pressure cooker by investing in culture.
9/10 startups do not have a clearly defined culture, yet AssetVault decided to work on their culture almost from day one.
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Early stage
What, according to Sheryl Sandberg, is “probably the most important document ever to come out of the valley” and why?
How Hubble used a values based hiring methodology to scale their team from 8 to 18 in three months.
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Growth stage
“Culture is so important, it can make or break your business”
Your team are listening and watching carefully to see if what you say, do, and how you behave, match the values that your company espouses.
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Early stage
When entering the building, what percentage of themselves do your employees have to leave outside?
It is not possible for a person, whose values are not aligned with the company's, to deliver ultra high performance.
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Growth stage
The importance of Purpose and why your start-up needs one.
Companies who clearly articulate their purpose enjoy higher growth rates and higher levels of success.
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Early stage
The challenges of embedding your company culture in a global multi-office start-up
Misha Gopaul led a merger to create Fabric Technologies and discusses what he learnt from that process and how he applies those learnings in his current business FATMAP.
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Early stage
What if your people are not your greatest asset?
How the "odd" concept of borrowing someone else's dog has grown into a significant business with hundreds of thousands of very happy customers!
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Early stage
Hiring vs Marriage - Would you marry someone after spending just 8 hours with them?
Rob O'Donovan discusses what the company does to embed the culture at CharlieHR.
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Growth stage
Maslow Revisited – The Startup Hierarchy of Needs
How Maslow's hierarchy of needs can be applied to startups and how Skimlinks delivers self-actualisation for its people.
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