With worries in both the UK and US regarding impending recession, businesses are having to think about how they can drive productivity and output with the same number of, or potentially fewer, workers.
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The modern plan for leadership succession
For the July edition of The Loop, we take a look at the key things to consider when faced with a change in leadership.
How permanent is the great resignation?
Questions remain whether the great resignation is still just a temporary change to the way employees approach work or if it is actually a permanent shift in employees’ mindsets.
The growing danger of proximity bias
The spectre of proximity bias hangs over both employers and employees adopting hybrid arrangements, with clear worries over whether those in the office will receive more preferential treatment to those based primarily at home.
How flat should organisational structures be?
One notable result of Google’s annual ‘Googlegeist’ employee survey was a second consecutive year of negative feelings regarding hierarchy and bureaucracy, with just 46 per cent responding positively.
The metaverse and its future role in the workplace
With COVID-19 accelerating many businesses’ digital transitions, and since Mark Zuckerberg’s commitment to spend $10 billion a year over the next decade on the metaverse, interest in this area has skyrocketed.
The post-pandemic Employee Experience
The February edition of The Loop examines the new employee experience (EX) that has emerged as we move into 2022 and beyond the pandemic.
Agile Leadership for 2022 and the post-pandemic era
As 2021 drew to a close, many businesses reflected on another year that had been hugely influenced by the Coronavirus pandemic. How had their businesses been forced to change, and what changes would their organisations take forward into 2022 and the post-pandemic era? In particular, how/if leaders need to change their style of leadership to a more agile one to suit post-pandemic… Continue reading Agile Leadership for 2022 and the post-pandemic era
Organisational Silos and Productivity
For many businesses a key organisational goal is to ensure collaboration between their various teams to improve overall productivity. However, the separate nature of these teams, or silos, in themselves contribute to poor productivity and competitive decline. Leaders often find themselves having to balance the two.
Feedback in a B2B environment
Recent discussion has focused on measures such as Net Promoter Score (NPS) for B2B, arguing that the broad range of KPIs for businesses nowadays means that condensed measures are far less useful, with the example of NPS cited as “a very poor predictor of customer loyalty and customer satisfaction.”