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How Team Structure Can Build Resilience, Improve Performance, & Help Prevent Bad Things Happening

There is a strong focus on personal resilience in executive development today, but less so on the particular challenges of building resilience in teams and leading resilient teams.

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3 Employee Energy Challenges That Leaders Should Be Aware Of

This white paper provides insights for leaders on employee energy based on research conducted by UNC Professor Michael Christian.

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The Neuroscience of Leadership: 5 Practical Applications for a Post-Pandemic World

Providing critical insights on how leaders can become more effective by applying the principles of neuroscience in five areas that have been dramatically affected by the pandemic.

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Overcoming the Challenges of a Hybrid Workplace

UNC professor Dr. Arvind Malhotra discusses how organizations can ensure employee connection, inclusivity, and productivity in a hybrid workplace.

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Four Roles of Physical Workspaces

In the wake of the pandemic, many employees are looking forward to returning to the office, but not for the old ways and old reasons.

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3 Aspects of Virtual Work to Unlearn Post-Pandemic

As organizations contemplate how to return to work, they can find a new hybrid model that allows employees to have the best of both worlds.

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Leading With Empathy

As leaders continue to navigate a global pandemic and focus efforts on diversity, equity, and inclusion within teams, leading with empathy is more important than ever.

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8 Talent Challenges in Uncertain Times

Dealing with stress and uncertainty is just one of the many talent challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Employees Have a Voice – Are You Amplifying or Silencing It?

Effective leaders know that when their teams speak up with ideas, suggestions, or concerns, good things happen.

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Thriving Under Pressure: Developing New Skills in Uncertain Times

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed that leaders and their teams urgently need new skills to handle the pressures they are facing and to adjust to new ways of working.

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Into the Unknown: Learning and Development in Times of Crisis

Leaders in the learning and development space face many challenges in an unknown COVID environment.

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Learning From the L&D Past in a COVID World

Insights from UNC Executive Development directors who worked in corporate learning and development during the 2008 financial crisis