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Wednesday, February 10th 2021

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How to grow your social capital in a post-covid world?

This week’s must read

Whitepaper: Social Capital and the Office of the Future
Social capital has never been so important. Defined as the combined value of your people, their networks and their interactions, social capital is the glue that brings people together. It’s the ability of your people to create positive interactions with one another, to relate in different scenarios…

 

 

Social capital in the workplace has never been so important. It is the glue that brings people together, generates positive interactions, and builds a sense of trust throughout your organization. And it makes your place a key ingredient to business success.

This Week’s Must Read is an insight piece from Miles McLeod about relationships in the workspace of the future.

  Miles McLeod @Morgan Lovell

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Thought Leadership

It’s time to reimagine where and how work will get done

Nine months into a monumental shift to work-from-home, business leaders are more convinced about the productivity gains achieved, but some are no closer to giving up the office.

In a post-pandemic world, the success of remote work has reimagined how corporate work gets done, as well as where the work takes place. Are we prepared to completely abandon the office space?

 Ed Faccio , Deniz Caglar, Vinay Couto and Bhushan Seth @Pwc

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What Is the Role of Healthy Peer Relationships at Work?
Peer relationships are relations with individuals working on the same level of the organisational hierarchy with no formal authority over each other.

Our employees’ work-family is their coworkers with whom they share more than half of his day with. How can we improve job satisfaction when our employees feel that their work does not serve a purpose or is unsatisfactory, and they feel lonely?

Shreya Dutta@Vantage Circle

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Reinventing Work: From Optimization To Adaptation
“I dispensed with the false comfort that making detailed plans can bring – and falling back on the notion of control – in what was a highly uncertain environment. Detailed annual plans may have been standard practice a hundred years ago, but in our modern world this is far from ideal.”

Today’s world is very different from that of just a few decades ago, and organizations have become complex. We need to reimagine them and reinvent work: let’s move from optimization to adaptation.

Pim de Morree @Corporate Rebels

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What Is Social Capital and How Do You Measure It? | myHRfuture
Michael Arena describes social capital as “the competitive advantage that is created based on the way an individual is connected to others” in his book, Adaptive Space . If human capital is about what an individual knows, social capital is about how well positioned that individual is to use wha

In this article inspired by a conversation between Michael Arena and David Green in the latest series of the Digital HR Leaders podcast about innovation and how it is achieved and maintained in an organization, especially in a remote environment, the author explores the concept of social capital further, answering questions like “What is social capital?” or How do you measure it?

 Caroline Styr and David Green @Insight222 , Michael Arena@Amazon Web Services and for myHRfuture

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This week’s Consulting News

Newly Minted Unicorn InvestCloud Plans Global Wealthtech Takeover
InvestCloud is bringing Tegra118 and Finantix into the fold, in a reorganization that could make the firm a major global wealthtech player.

| @Wealth Management.com

6 Ways to Leap Ahead of the Covid-19 Rebound
How to begin the strategic shift from what’s required to keep the lights on to what’s needed to take full advantage when the economic recovery arrives.

| Ben Richmond@Xero for Entrepreneur

AirConsole brings games to Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams
/PRNewswire/ -- Companies and their employees are struggling to adjust to working from home. Daily social interactions such as coffee-breaks, lunch dates or a...

| @PR newswire

How best to govern management consultancy in the 21st century?
Is there a case for the regulation of consultancy? Or is consultancy too difficult to pin down? Should the industry rely on professionalism and professional bodies or does the market sort out the good from bad.

| @Consultancy.uk

 

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