Explainers How Onboarding Rituals Reinforce Company Values With more teams working remotely, new employees need simple rituals to help them embrace company values and integrate into the culture.
Explainers Strategic Planning vs. Scenario Planning in Uncertain Markets What is the role of strategic planning in an era defined by unprecedented and unrelenting change? What model or approach is best right now?
Explainers How Organizations Measure Success —and How It Impacts Diversity With more companies publicly sharing diversity reports and committing to greater representation, this is an opportunity to evaluate your organizations’ metrics
Explainers Why Building an “Architecture of Listening” Improves Employee Engagement Listening is how employees evaluate their leaders— “Do you value my concerns? Are you open to changing how we work?”
Explainers Why Resilient Teams Are Founded on Good Connections To better adapt after an adverse experience, invest time now in fostering trust and positive shared experiences with your team
Explainers How to Avoid “Bikeshedding” and Work on What Matters To feel like you’re making progress, it’s easy to focus on getting tasks done—regardless of whether they’re important or trivial. Make sure you’re spending your energy on what will make the greatest impact.
Tools Anti Racism Resources to Build an Inclusive Work Environment Creating a more just workplace (and society) can feel overwhelming, but these tools can serve as a first step
Quick Studies How Leaders Must Strategically Respond to Recessions Our team explores historical and biological lessons to understand how organizations can adapt to scarce resources and fierce competition
Explainers Selecting the Right Tools to Support Distributed Teams With more employees working from home, companies are seeking out the best digital tools to support them—but don’t neglect the human side of any rollout.
Explainers Real Resilience: Navigating Boundaries and Burnout in a Crisis COVID has a lot of people feeling on edge—take steps to maximize your time and make sure you’re managing yourself as a leader
Explainers How to Maintain a Positive Virtual Work Environment Company culture can’t be reduced to ping pong tables, but it does have a physical component. Implement these practices to maintain a strong culture even when working virtually.
Tools How to Lay Off Employees Gracefully: Special Considerations for Remote Teams With more people than ever working from home, layoffs require even more care and planning
Explainers In Conversation: How to Layoff Employees Gracefully in a Remote World—and Why It Matters NOBL and CareerArc discuss how leaders can better prepare to lead a team through one of the most difficult cultural events
Explainers How to Layoff Employees in a Humane Way If you can’t avoid layoffs, do it in a manner that respects your employees’ contributions so that even those who leave maintain good-will towards the company.
Explainers Change@Work: Leadership, Resilience, and Remote Work in a Post-COVID World The future of work has arrived on the back of the coronavirus, COVID-19. On March 24th, NOBL hosted a daylong virtual conference to address the urgently changing nature of work featuring speakers from the NYTimes, Netflix, IBM, Intel, and others.
Explainers Going Remote Overnight: Preparing for the Coronavirus Many companies across the globe may need to shift to remote work, and quickly, given the growing concern over the coronavirus.
Explainers Succession Planning for Yourself: How to Find a New Leader When It’s Time to Move On It’s tempting to want to find another “you” to lead the team—instead, evaluate needed skills and adopt a growth mindset to find the right candidate
Quick Studies What We Can Learn From Amazon’s Planning Process Amazon’s high-performance culture, with its focus on customers, data, and outcomes, is supported by a unique annual planning process. Leaders and teams are incentivized to think big while supporting cross-divisional goals.
Tools Hold Teams Together & Accountable with a Culture Contract To avoid misunderstandings—and address culture fails—outline what the team should expect from each other, and from the organization.
Explainers How to Actually Impact Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace Diversity programs have mixed results. To encourage real diversity, connect it to the bottom line, make meetings more inclusive, and be willing to meet one-on-one to help change mindsets.
