To emerge stronger from the COVID-19 crisis, companies should start reskilling their workforces now

To emerge stronger from the COVID-19 crisis, companies should start reskilling their workforces now

May 08, 2020

Imagine a crisis that forces your company’s employees to change the way they work almost overnight. Despite initial fears that the pressure would be too great, you discover that this new way of working could be a blueprint for the long term. 

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How to Talk to Your Team When the Future Is Uncertain

How to Talk to Your Team When the Future Is Uncertain

April 24, 2020

As the coronavirus pandemic escalates and disruptions to business-as-usual continue, managers are grappling with the unknown. You don’t know when your employees will be able to return to the office or how different things will be when they do. Regardless... 

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How To Develop Soft Skills

How To Develop Soft Skills

February 28, 2020

As automation and artificial intelligence dramatically change the nature of work, employees must fine-tune the social and emotional abilities machines cannot master. To encourage this behaviour, employers must adjust the ways they assess, educate, train and reward their workforce on soft skills such as collaboration, communication and critical thinking.

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How to Break Up with Your Bad Habits

How to Break Up with Your Bad Habits

January 03, 2020

Breaking habits is hard. We all know this, whether we’ve failed our latest diet (again), or felt the pull to refresh our Instagram feed instead of making progress on a work project that is past due.

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Holidays Can Be Stressful. They Don’t Have to Stress Out Your Team.

Holidays Can Be Stressful. They Don’t Have to Stress Out Your Team.

December 20, 2019

The festive spirit is everywhere during the holiday season. For some, each day feels like waking up to a holiday song — “children laughing, people passing, meeting smile after smile.” But, for others, it can be the loneliest and most stressful time of the year.

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Augmented Reality: A Managers Guide - Part 2

Augmented Reality: A Managers Guide - Part 2

May 31, 2019

Augmented reality starts with a camera-equipped device—such as a smartphone, a tablet, or smart glasses—loaded with AR software. When a user points the device and looks at an object...

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Augmented Reality: A Managers Guide - Part 1

Augmented Reality: A Managers Guide - Part 1

May 24, 2019

Augmented reality technologies promise to transform how we learn, make decisions, and interact with the physical world. In this package, The Harvard Business Review explains what AR is, how its applications are evolving, and why it’s so important.

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What the Dalai Lama Taught Daniel Goleman About Emotional Intelligence

What the Dalai Lama Taught Daniel Goleman About Emotional Intelligence

November 13, 2017

Two decades before Daniel Goleman first wrote about emotional intelligence in the pages of HBR, he met his holiness the 14th Dalai Lama at Amherst College, who mentioned to the young science journalist for the New York Times that he was interested in meeting with scientists.

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4 Simple Steps To Turning Your Frown Upside Down

4 Simple Steps To Turning Your Frown Upside Down

July 18, 2017

All of us, at some point in our life, feel down and frustrated, like we're being followed by a big black cloud.  UCLA neuroscientist Alex Korb, author of The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time, has some tips that might just help you brighten up your day. Time for a lesson in neuroscience.

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