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Reboard Your Workforce With Your Culture in Mind by Iseult Morgan and Denise McLain Story Highlights Leaders can develop a reboarding strategy using five culture drivers Focusing on culture drivers can set managers and teams up for success Many organizational leaders today are eagerly talking about returning their work back to "normal." Its as though this will be a panacea for all the problems incurred trying to get work done over the past year. Some leaders even seem to be under the assumption...

A Skift Event Round-Up Before the pandemic, the multi-trillion dollar business travel sector was set to experience a dramatic digital transformation. The pandemic only accelerated these critical shifts. Now that we’re moving into a post-crisis world, what will corporate travel look like as companies, both large and small, continue to embrace tech solutions, and the future of work becomes increasingly digital? To answer some of these questions and hear from the experts leading the way, Skift h...

Pandemic yields new understanding of collective problem-solving metamorworks The COVID-19 pandemic, while devastating, has taught us an important lesson: the importance of people coming together to solve problems collectively. The problems faced by organizations have been internal, such as the need to enable employees to work remotely, and external, including the challenges faced by customers and society as a whole. At DocuSign, Chief Trust and Security Officer Emily Heath saw h...

PGA of America Honored with 2021 FutureEdge 50 Award Published on The PGA of America was named today as a 2021 FutureEdge 50 Award honoree. Presented by IDG’s CIO, the award recognizes organizations pushing the edge with new technologies to advance their business for the future through simplification, modernization, and security, while using the most contemporary methodologies and technologies. “This year’s class of FutureEdge winners demonstrated enormous innovation, creativity and re...

Published 2 hours ago • Updated 2 hours ago Bob Levey/Getty Images Actor Matthew McConaughey tells CNBC entering a post-pandemic world is a chance to not go back to being the same person you were before Covid-19. One of his hopes is that our culture emerges more grounded in facts, but also more understanding of opposing ideas. When it comes to money and the markets, McConaughey may be best known for his role as a stock broker in "The Wolf of Wall Street," but the author of recent memoir "...

Webcast Details What can authenticity bring to leaders -- and coaches -- during times of change and disruption? How does resilience intertwine with purpose and authenticity in motivating leaders and executives to excellence? Andrea Goseco, an ICF PCC-credentialed executive coach and a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach, was our guest on a recent Called to Coach. Coach Anda, who has more than a decade of coaching experience, shared her insights on coaching leaders and executives during a pandemic....

When Dave Casper, CEO of BMO Financial Group’s U.S. operations, said that the current, mostly online state of office work was “not the new normal” but “abnormal,” and that “We’re getting back to normal, and normal is getting back to the office,” the conference room at Metra’s 49th Street Training Center, located just east of the Dan Ryan, erupted in applause. “Trust me, not everybody is as enthusiastic,” he responded. But if there was one common theme at the March 11 Safe ...

Adobe Stock Speaking at the recent CIO.com-sponsored Future of Work Summit, Ashley Still, senior vice president and general manager of digital media at Adobe, offered some fresh thinking about the Future of Work (FOW). Still made four observations in particular that either run counter to conventional wisdom or are overlooked by most firms. Either way, they are essential elements of a successful and effective FOW strategy: Burnout may be the real problem: With the wholesale shift ...

COVID-19 inoculations hit a new daily record with 152,697 shots in arms Friday as vaccine doses shipped to Illinois surpassed 5 million. Metra, downtown leaders discuss returning to the Loop. "Normal is getting back to the office."

Why Managers Need Leadership Development Too Many organizations are underinvesting in managers leadership potential Managers need leadership skills for their teams now and for the future Are managers different from leaders? This is an age-old debate. Some believe that the roles are different -- and should be. The perception is that leaders are big-picture thinkers, visionaries and stewards of strategy. Managers, on the other hand, are the ones who "get things done," execute leadership direction...