Eight ways to be a brilliant leader in a hybrid working world
Whether we lead an organisation, a team, a project or a specific activity, the pandemic has thrown us a fair few curveballs during the last 18 months. We’ve relocated (overnight), juggled more balls than ever, Zoom Zoom Zoomed (!) and adapted and pivoted.
As more and more teams head back into the office and enter into a hybrid working world, how do leaders get their heads straight about what happens next?
With so many of our ways to communicate, connect and collaborate seemingly turned upside down during the pandemic and many questions around what exactly should happen now, there’s still a lot of talk about the need for a total re-think on how we lead as the world of hybrid takes hold.
However, when we look at the leaders (in all walks of life) who have done a brilliant job throughout the last 18 months, they haven’t actually changed their leadership approach at all, regardless of where they have been working from. Granted, their leadership might have been delivered slightly differently but it’s remained entirely focused on the age-old principles of leading others that are also bang up to date and that we can’t see changing anytime soon.
Video: Leading through the ups and downs of life
Watch our three-minute video on leading through the ups and downs of life, or if you prefer reading, the transcript is below.
Today I want to talk a bit about the ups and downs of life, and what all that’s got to do with leadership.
Six months ago, both of my children were diagnosed with autism and a range of other special needs. And around the same time, my wonderful, wonderful Father-in-law passed away with Covid. Fast forward six months and we’ve relaunched the Jester business. We’ve also had news that my youngest son has been offered a place at a phenomenal specialist school, which we’ve been hoping for for a long time. Read more
What is Happiness?
Some say that a personal decision to be happy is all it takes. Others require themselves to achieve things in order to reach a state of happiness. In a world quick to pedal short-termism and acquisition as fulfilment, it can be difficult to see the wood for the trees sometimes and before you know it, losing your footing in a tide of melancholia and feeling there is just no real way to be happy, becomes all too real for many people.