Explainers Archives - NOBL Academy

To Be Resilient, Rest Like An Athlete

To be at the top of our professional game, we have to start treating rest and recovery seriously. Yes, as seriously as a professional athlete.

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How to Learn and Grow from a Difficult 2020

Borrow from the concept of post-traumatic growth to increase your team’s resilience in the future

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Prevent Change Fatigue by Balancing the New and Familiar

Attempting to implement too much change, too fast, leads to burnout. Instead, find the “Most Advanced Yet Acceptable” change and transition gradually

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To Make a Difference, Start within Your Zone of Control

Stay focused on what you can impact and actively manage the attention you spend on what you can’t control

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Why Taking Time Off—Especially Now—Can Prevent Burnout

Detaching from working increases productivity and creativity—even if you don’t go farther than your couch

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Virtual “Storming”: How to Work through Tensions with New Teams

Remote teams face special challenges when working through tensions and difficult conversations. These best practices help move the team through “storming” to “performing”

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What to Watch Out for When Designing Career Development Frameworks

Keep employees engaged by showing them how they can grow within your organization

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How Leaders Overcome Fears to Implement Change

When confronting fear, it’s important to distinguish between real versus perceived threats, and identify what’s truly “safe to try”

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Why DEI Efforts Can’t Be Limited to HR

If DEI is a horizontal rather than vertical effort, it becomes clear that every team is responsible for creating and sustaining a more equitable organization.

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“Build Back Better” and Organizational Resilience

If we want to build back better and foster greater organizational resilience, we must first define what “better” means, for whom the changes are meant, and how to begin.