Mentorships fulfill various functions within an organization. They provide opportunities for knowledge to be shared, foster leadership and skill development in both mentors and mentees, and can even be used to foster cross-functional working relationships within an organization. Mentorship programs can mold individuals, prepare them to succeed in the organization, and to remain with the organization and deliver value to the organization for years to come.
In this course, you will learn how to successfully implement a mentorship program, as well as understand how to set-up a mentorship program based on your goals as an organization.
Approximately 20 Minutes
COVID-19 has remarkably changed how many organizations choose to physically structure themselves and operate. Some organizations have gone fully virtual while other organizations have adopted hybrid arrangements where employees split their time between working in the office and working remotely. Having conversations around how to return to work can be contentious as individuals often have strong opinions for or against remote work. Therefore, choosing the best return-to-work model requires strong communication, diplomacy, and leadership skills.
In this course, you will gain an understanding of how to exercise leadership around choosing the best return-to-work option by learning examples of different possible models currently employed around the world and considering the factors that inform decision-making around choosing the most appropriate return-to-work model for an organization.
Approximately 20 Minutes
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations and their employees were forced to consider flexible working arrangements. As business operations continue to normalize across the globe, employees and employers, having worked with flexible working arrangements for over two years now, understand and appreciate them and would like to make some of those changes permanent. In fact, the question that organizations are wrestling with is not whether or not the organization should have flexible working relationships but that of which flexible work model works best the organization.
In this course, you will gain an understanding of the factors that inform decision-making around choosing the best flexible working arrangement for all employees, and learn the different flexible work arrangements that are currently used around the world.
Approximately 20 Minutes
We live in unprecedented times. The world as we know it has changed drastically in the last couple of years as a result of a pandemic. As a result of prolonged periods of safe-distancing and isolation, many organizations have developed remote work cultures. Remote working has further hastened a digital shift in an already technology-dependent world. Corporations are now heavily reliant on online meetings, virtual learning experiences, and digitally managed administrative tasks to run the day-to-day business. Meanwhile, the economy has destabilized. The global supply chain has been disrupted as a result of a drop in consumer confidence in the state of the economy. Moreover, environmental destruction resulting from the exploitation of natural resources and pollution as well as acts of war threaten our ability to survive as a global community. Organizations and organizational leaders must adapt to this reality. The new normal is highly unstable and volatile.
In this course, you will gain an understanding of how to build strategies around identifying and addressing inefficiencies to maximize organizational profitability and realizing new opportunities by preparing organizations for digital transformation.
Approximately 20 Minutes
At a time when the global business climate is highly unstable and when organizations need to be creative and exploratory, they must be able to harness the expertise and perspectives of their employees. In recent years, as a result of economic disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic, greater concern has been placed on developing work cultures that make room for individual expression and group synergy and creativity to help organizations to pivot and find new paths to prosperity.
In this course, you will gain an understanding of the 4E framework and learn how to build an inclusive, mobilized, and creative work culture.
Approximately 20 Minutes
While flexible work was a necessity during the start of the pandemic, as we emerge into the post-pandemic era, the world as a whole has been reflecting on the greater ideals of health and well-being, work-life balance, camaraderie and emotional support. Organizations, in an effort to retain their best talent, have learned to listen attentively to their employees and to work with employees to manage their concerns.
In this course, you will gain an understanding of the range of concerns that employees typically have in a highly unstable and uncertain reality, and learn the ways to intervene when it is appropriate to resolve any tension or misunderstanding between employees and managers or between employees and top-level leadership.
Approximately 20 Minutes
Mentorship, Guardianship and collaboration are challenges of today’s workplace. Find out how to enhance collaboration and productivity during changes to work process and working environments.