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The future of work is agile
20 March 2019 By Alison Maitland I recently came across a company called ConsenSys that develops applications for blockchain technology. Its work model intrigued me. According to its website, the 1000+ employees around the world decide their own schedules, work … Continue reading
How employers can keep pace with the work revolution
18 March 2019 Willis Towers Watson recently ran this article in their corporate and trustee briefing featuring my views on the huge challenges facing organisations in keeping pace with rapid changes in work and society, and how enlightened employers are responding. … Continue reading
To drive inclusion in your company, engage with the world outside
16 January 2019 This article is the second in a series that Rebekah Steele and I have written on LinkedIn, focused on how organisations can do a better job of inclusion. By Rebekah Steele and Alison Maitland Amid the divisive social … Continue reading
Hyping generational differences is unhelpful
5 November 2018 I’m starting to feel sorry for the so-called ‘Millennial’ generation. For years, they’ve been surveyed, sorted and categorised into a cohort with distinctly unappealing characteristics: the ‘Me’ generation, ‘snowflakes’, self-absorbed, restless, entitled, and needy. Now they’re going … Continue reading
If you think you’re doing a good job measuring inclusion, think again
24 Oct 2018 This article is the first in a series that Rebekah Steele and I are posting on LinkedIn, focused on how organisations can do a better job of inclusion. By Alison Maitland and Rebekah Steele ARE your inclusion … Continue reading
Telling your career story
7 Oct 2018 What is your career story? What pivotal events, opportunities and setbacks have shaped your professional life? What are the values and strengths that motivate you and determine the choices you make? If these questions are hard to … Continue reading
Will UK employers have to advertise jobs as flexible?
4 Oct 2018 It’s National Work Life Week in the UK, and with it comes news that the government is considering steps to increase flexible working. As part of a package of measures, Business Secretary Greg Clark said the government … Continue reading
How to have better conversations at work
25 Sept 2018 What we say and how we say it affects the culture at work. I recently went to collect an order at a furnishing store and the staff could not find it. When the manager came over to … Continue reading
What’s needed for leadership in the new world of work?
25 July 2018 The very notion of leadership is shifting. Where once leaders behaved as individualistic ‘heroes on the rock’, none can now pretend to do it all alone. The pace of change and the complexity of global challenges require … Continue reading
Busting myths about gender and confidence
13 May 2018 Women are often given the message that, if only they were more assertive and confident, they would be able to grab those leadership roles more easily. But, as I explain in this column, new research shows that … Continue reading