As hybrid working looks set to become the norm in the post-Covid world, the lessons learned during lockdown will need to be applied. However, firms will have to overcome the limitations of current communication and collaboration tools.
In a recent HBR Article entitled “What Does It Mean to Be a Manager Today?", authors Brian Kropp, Alexia Cambon, and Sara Clark provide insight into what will be required of managers for the foreseeable future.
“To be successful in this new environment, managers must lead with empathy. In a 2021 Gartner survey of 4,787 global employees assessing the evolving role of management, only 47% of managers are prepared for this future role. The most effective managers of the future will be those who build fundamentally different relationships with their employees.”
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Evening Read: ‘Like the internet before, we’re at an inflection in the history of work’
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The arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent switch to home working has put us at a pivotal moment in history that could change how we do things forever, according to a specialist.
We are about to see a dramatic shift to hybrid working in a post-pandemic world, according to research director Alexia Cambon, who, along with her team, has been studying extensively home working models since the start of the pandemic.
Speaking at a webinar this week, she argued the pre-pandemic, office-centric way of working was already outdated, and based on practices set up decades ago before we had access to modern day technology.
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