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How to be a purpose-driven leader without burning out
Lisa Earle McLeod and Elizabeth Lotardo, Harvard Business ReviewThe idea of servant leadership — putting your team’s needs ahead of your own — brought us to a more compassionate, human-centred work environment. But in today’s environment, it’s a recipe for burnout. Instead, the authors suggest a more impact-driven philosophy called “noble-purpose leadership,” that ties leaders...
workplace
adaptive leadership
When your employee isn’t reaching their full potential
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic and Dorie Clark, Harvard Business ReviewIt can be frustrating to feel that your employees aren’t taking the initiative to do more with their talents. As their manager, you may even wonder if it’s a question of knowledge or willpower: Do they not understand what’s necessary to perform at their best? Or are they just unmotivated? In this article, the...
leadership communications
workplace
How to manage your team’s workload after layoffs
Dina Denham Smith and Frans van Loef, Harvard Business ReviewAll too often in the case of layoffs, the people who survive it are expected to pick up the work that their terminated colleagues left behind. Meanwhile, these layoff survivors are often struggling with survivor guilt, anxiety, and low morale. In short, after a layoff, more is being asked of people who have less to...
adaptive leadership
workplace
The four-day workweek: How to make it work in your organisation
Andrew Barnes, MIT SloanAs co-founder of 4 Day Week Global, Andrew Barnes has a front-row seat to the world’s largest experiment on the effects of scaling back the workweek.
It started with Barnes’s own New Zealand company, Perpetual Guardian when he wondered whether his staff members could do their jobs better if they worked the...
socio political environment
workplace
Seven ways to make employees feel respected, according to research
Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman, Harvard Business ReviewTreating everyone with respect is the foundation of good leadership. Employees who feel disrespected are more likely to also feel excluded or even inferior. The authors offer seven behaviours, based on their analysis of data collected from more than 4,500 employees, that lead to a demonstration and feeling of...
workplace
adaptive leadership