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.

Tools

How to Tell the Story of Change

Before people accept a solution, they have to agree there’s a problem. Telling a story—and illustrating their part to play—can make transformation easier

Explainers

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

Explainers

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

Explainers

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

Tools

A Simple Diagram to Determine, “Should This Be a Meeting?”

Reduce workload and bring better work-life balance by evaluating what decisions require meetings and what can be resolved by email

Explainers

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

Explainers

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”

Explainers

What to Watch Out for When Designing Career Development Frameworks

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

Tools

Embarking on the Change Journey for the Better

A “change map” provides much needed perspective in the middle of a change process

Explainers

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”

Tools

Hacking the Eisenhower Decision Matrix

As you weigh the urgent and the important in order to prioritize your week or your team’s backlog, you may need new methods to force decision-making and focus

Explainers

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.

Quick Studies

How GitLab’s CEO Shadow Program Transmits Company Values

As part of GitLab’s commitment to transparency and collaboration, leaders are invited to attend meetings with and provide feedback to the CEO

Explainers

“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.

Explainers

Why Organizational Slack Is Crucial for Long-Term Resilience

To survive this prolonged period of psychological, physical, and financial stress, organizations must rebuild reserves and reduce complexity.

Explainers

Making Virtual Meetings More Inclusive

To make the most of virtual meetings, make the objectives clear upfront, set the rules of the room, and create opportunities for people to provide input.

Explainers

How to Prioritize when Everything’s a Priority

Prioritization frameworks have limited effectiveness when they don’t account for categories and allocation

Explainers

Why Organizations Don’t Live up to Their Values (and How to Fix It)

The difference between what a company’s leadership say they value, and the lived experience of their employees is the “Values Gap,” and has real financial and ethical implications for organizations.

Quick Studies

How Satya Nadella Led Microsoft through a Corporate Turnaround

Leading a corporate turnaround at a company as large as Microsoft is a daunting challenge, but CEO Nadella focused on culture and innovation to return it to dominance

Impossible is temporary.

To Be Resilient, Rest Like An Athlete

How to Tell the Story of Change

How to Learn and Grow from a Difficult 2020

Prevent Change Fatigue by Balancing the New and Familiar

To Make a Difference, Start within Your Zone of Control

A Simple Diagram to Determine, “Should This Be a Meeting?”

Why Taking Time Off—Especially Now—Can Prevent Burnout

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

What to Watch Out for When Designing Career Development Frameworks

Embarking on the Change Journey for the Better

How Leaders Overcome Fears to Implement Change

Hacking the Eisenhower Decision Matrix

Why DEI Efforts Can’t Be Limited to HR

How GitLab’s CEO Shadow Program Transmits Company Values

“Build Back Better” and Organizational Resilience

Why Organizational Slack Is Crucial for Long-Term Resilience

Making Virtual Meetings More Inclusive

How to Prioritize when Everything’s a Priority

Why Organizations Don’t Live up to Their Values (and How to Fix It)

How Satya Nadella Led Microsoft through a Corporate Turnaround