5 Key Human Skills to Thrive in the Future Digital Workplace

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by Abbey Lewis | July 14, 2021

We often hear that human skills (or soft skills) are important to create thriving and high-performing teams. But the changing nature of work—with fully remote to hybrid arrangements—makes these skills even more crucial to develop now. What exactly are human skills? Sometimes known as “soft skills,” they constitute our ability to relate to one another and refer to aspects such as empathy, compassion, and authenticity. People with strong human skills can form deeper connections with colleagues and customers. This ultimately serves as a strong foundation for positive workplace performance in terms of innovation, adaptive thinking, collaboration, and more. This surfaced […]

Partners’ Meeting 2021: It’s a wrap

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by Erika Toomey | June 15, 2021

Our 2021 Partners’ Meeting—Learn, Lead, Illuminate—delivered on the promise that participants would come away with “ideas for a more adaptive, inclusive, and digital future.” From Tsedal Neeley’s brilliant opening day keynote—through Hubert Joly’s heartful closing session—a number of key themes emerged: Purpose matters. It’s critical to both personal and professional success, especially in times of disruption and change. When we’re grounded in purpose, we have more resilience, more grit—essential to thriving in today’s hyper-fast moving and complex environment. Nimble organizations flip the hierarchy. Putting the frontline people at the top, and empowering them, paves the way for real innovation to […]

What’s in Your Toolbox? Time to Add Four Resilience-Building Tools

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by Prarthana Kumar | June 7, 2021

In response to the pandemic—which continues to test our capacity for resilience—we recently hosted a webinar, Resilience in a Period of Loss, Grief, & Anxiety. At this event, Harvard Business School Professor Joshua Margolis discussed the acute need for leaders to develop this important capability. (You’ll find our brief overview of the webinar here.) He then offered four valuable tools for putting leaders on the path to resilience. Four Tools to Help Interrupt the Adversity Reflex and Build Personal Resilience While the tools that Professor Margolis outlined are simple and straightforward, he cautions that these activities may not seem all […]

Building Resilience in a Time of Loss, Grief, and Anxiety

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by Prarthana Kumar | June 2, 2021

More than a year after we first began hearing news of Covid, the pandemic continues to factor into both our personal and professional lives. Many of us have been working from home, managing our teams without being able to drop by for a small informal chat, and onboarding new team members without being able to take them out for a welcome lunch. Many of us have been schooling our children from home, too—and trying to make up for their loss of playtime with friends. We’ve been more worried than ever about the health of our family and friends, and coping […]

Creating Learning Experiences at Scale

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by Rob McKinney | June 1, 2021

Todays’ employees—stretched for time—are looking for streamlined learning experiences. Harvard Business Publishing, working together with D2L’s Learning & Creative Services team, enhanced its course templates, making it easier to deliver client-specific learning journeys at scale—focused on world-class leadership ideas. Challenge: Managing complexity while delivering custom content Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning focuses on providing learning experiences for our clients built around important and timely ideas-based content from Harvard Business School, Harvard Business Review, and other industry experts. Our learners include executives at large global organizations, who can choose to participate in a broad spectrum of flexible, tailored leadership development experiences […]