Leadership, teleworking, preparing for the post-Covid crisis: 10 articles selected by Talentis
Every week from now on, the entire Talentis team will share with you a selection of articles that we found particularly rewarding. We hope they help you as much as they helped us.On the agenda this week are in-depth articles on how toadapt your leadership in times of crisis, reflections on The impact of teleworking and remote management and how to prepare for the future.
Some articles are in French and others in English. They are not all recent and keep pace with our readings.Enjoy reading! The Talentis team
Adapting your leadership in times of crisis:
1/ Leadership time (Harvard)
- The needs of your teams: focus your leadership on pragmatic solutions
- Do the right things
- Responsible leadership must both embrace the preservation of the natural environment and the need to keep modern society functioning.
- Demonstrate it through actions
- Unleash the potential for ingenuity, creativity, and the thirst for commitmentApplying past leadership lessons to the coronavirus pandemic
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https://www.hbrfrance.fr/chroniques-experts/2020/04/29906-le-temps-du-leadership/
2/ Strengthen your culture in times of crisis (Gallup)
- Leaders need to communicate and build a story and dialogue with their employees.
- Leaders need to find ways to incorporate messages of hope, trust, trust, compassion, and stability into their stories and communications with employees.
- Establishing new ways of working
- Check employee needs
- Be thankful for your teams
- Culture helps guide organizations through times of change, and there's no better test for the strength of your culture than a difficult, chaotic, and uncertain time.
Source:
https://www.gallup.com/workplace/307931/maintain-strengthen-culture-times-disruption.aspx
3/ Leading with your head and heart (MIT)
- CEOs who manage emergencies using emotion as well as logic and intuition find the best results in the short and long term.
- The four key abilities of smart leaders:
- Broadening the perspective and purpose of employees
- Embrace frugal innovation
- Reframing sustainability as creative resilience
- Drive a radical openness to promote connectivity.
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Reflections on the impact of teleworking and remote management:
4/ How does lockdown transform “soft skills”? (The Conversation)
- Above all, the crisis develops empathy
- But also, according to a survey, Responsibility, Cooperation, Cooperation, Perseverance, Critical Thinking
- Despite social distance, cooperation is also experienced as improved.
- Three soft skills that deteriorate during this period are in decreasing order of intensity: trust in others, enthusiasm, sociability
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Source:
http://theconversation.com/comment-le-confinement-transforme-les-soft-skills-118495
5/ The three challenges of remote work (Harvard)
- Challenge 1: Not everyone has the same experience working from home. You must therefore bring all your employees up to speed.
- Challenge 2: Remote work does not follow the same rules, so you need to rethink how you structure your work.
- Challenge 3: Teleworking blurs the boundaries between professional and private life, forcing us to look at things in a global way.
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Source:
https://www.hbrfrance.fr/chroniques-experts/2020/04/29918-les-trois-defis-du-teletravail/
6/ Remote management, a new form of proximity? (Qualintra)
- Remote management exacerbates the need to demonstrate certain behaviors that are already critical during cruising but whose importance increases in bad weather.
- maintaining trust. Confidence in management and their ability to manage the situation, trust in the team, confidence in the future.
- The manager must also demonstrate emotional intelligence.
- Valuing the contribution and commitment of certain services.
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Source:
https://www.qualintra.com/2020/04/14/management-a-distance-nouvelle-forme-de-proximite/
7/ A bit of lightness and bonus: The remote working blooper: everything you shouldn't do when managing remotely (Capital)
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Preparing for the future:
8/ It's the end of the office as we know it (Vox)
- Working from home will be the new normal for many
- Coronavirus is likely to change the way office space looks and functions
- Demand for offices is uncertain
- Social thinking at a distance can be part of our DNA to move forward
- Coworking is not doomed, but it is destined to change
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9/ Have a clear vision for the future (Harvard)
- Visionary leaders like Abraham Lincoln, FDR, Winston Churchill, and Nelson Mandela didn't just react to the most immediate threats they face; they also looked beyond the dark horizon.
- The vision is particularly urgent during a crisis as global and systematic as this one.
- Spend time thinking about your future.
- Develop a strategy to bring your envisioned future back to today.
- Be ready to learn, learn, and pivot.
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10/ Thinking about the future: Why is Camus essential to help us get out of the crisis? (The Conversation)
“Nobody had yet really accepted the disease. Most were especially sensitive to what disturbed their habits or affected their interests. [...] Their first reaction, for example, was to blame the administration.” Excerpt from The Plague Albert Camus
- There are two lessons for us in this quote:
- On denial first
- on the accusations next.
- Camus, pleads for a fundamentally human posture of permanent “revolt”, at the heart of the irreducible incompleteness of everything.
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