You’re a leader with ambitious goals for yourself and your team in 2019. The plan is set, the performance, growth, and efficiency targets committed to. But, to be fully prepared for the year, there is one issue that should be at the top of your priority list: the Working Parent Problem. Read this brilliant HBR article […]

There is anxiety everywhere in your office. However many breakout spaces you install, socials you organise and old hierarchical formalities you do away with – the anxiety is still there. Why? To answer that, we have to acknowledge the different types of anxiety. First there’s the more common kind: people feeling anxious about their performance […]

The onboarding process is often allowed to unfold without much regulation. The attitude often seems to be that there’s so much to do, so many systems and processes to get up to speed with, that an element of chaos is accepted without question. Give it a few weeks and the new recruit will – somehow […]

When your team wants to learn a new skill, where do they turn first? Google? YouTube? Their corporate training programs? No. According to a study conducted by our company, Degreed, more workers first turn to their peers (55%)—second only to asking their bosses. Read this brilliant HBR article to find out more

I was recently chatting to Hazel Moore, co-founder of the investment bank FirstCapital, and she used a phrase that has really stayed with me: “There are these subtle signals that science is for boys.” It’s so true. Subtle signals. Unconscious bias. They’re phrases that can make you despair. Especially when you consider how these things […]

At the start of July, my news feed threw this story at me, about how Finland has recently considered excluding women from voluntary military service. Finland and voluntary military service? Surely a pretty minor skirmish in the grand scheme of gender equality? Yes and no. From the very local we can so often discern a […]

“I’d like to work for a manager I can learn from.” This phrase has come up again and again in interviews I’ve conducted for my team at the World Economic Forum and from more junior folks who I’ve met through various mentoring programs. Read this great article from HBR to find out more

When thinking about how to develop in our careers, most of us tend to focus on promotions, projects, courses, certifications. We seek out expanded roles, more senior titles, extra money. We overlook one very key piece of the learning puzzle:  proactively surrounding ourselves with people who will push us to succeed in unexpected ways and, […]

There’s a lot of talk of tech these days. And there’s almost as much talk about how we all need to be able to talk tech! I for one agree with that sentiment: as I’ve said in a previous blog , while many see the so-called drain of STEM graduates into non-STEM sectors as a problem, […]

Jeanine Prime of Catalyst is a writer I’ve only recently got acquainted with, but I find her experience worth reflecting on. Much of her work seems to focus on ways to engage men in the promotion of gender parity and what I find especially striking about her approach is that it’s so direct and so unapologetic in […]