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5 actions for leaders to deliver effective communication during a crisis 

4 July 2021

While leaders around the world have been tasked with supporting people through an incredibly challenging period over the past 18 months, the actions for leaders are the same.

High-Performance Teams: 7 core characteristics

2 July 2021

Technology and the pandemic may be reshaping the workplace, but one thing hasn’t changed: high-performing teams remain the backbone of a company’s success. What does it take to develop and support a high-performance team? We explore the core elements.

Reskilling teams for a post-pandemic workforce

26 April 2021

The pandemic has demonstrated that for the foreseeable future, instability and uncertainty will be the norm. The operating models established during the pandemic have quickly become the foundation for long-term operation. With that comes a need to support workers in properly developing the skills that they began sharpening over the past year.

The Future Workforce will be Built on Capabilities, not Skills. Here are the Top 7.

1 March 2021

While the conversation around the future of the workforce and remote work may now be top of mind for many people as result of COVID-19, for Marcus Bowles, Director of the Institute for Working Futures (IWF), this has been the subject of his research for over 30 years.

Marcus’s work is centred on forecasting and building capabilities for workforces that don’t yet exist and enabling his clients to be more agile and responsive to change. Marcus has worked closely with DeakinCo. in building capability frameworks to meet current and future workforce needs.

We sat down with Marcus to get his insights and perspective on what the future holds, on the major mindset shift that business leaders need to adopt and the capabilities that will underpin the workforce of the future.

Reimagining the office in a post-pandemic world

2 February 2021

The pandemic crammed years of tech-adoption into a few months, changing the way we work. With the shift towards a more remote workforce, CEOs are now presented with the unique opportunity to reimagine what role the office plays in their business moving forward.