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The past few years have brought rapid changes to workplaces around the globe. As a result, organisational dynamics and needs have changed, and leaders need to adjust their approach to keep up with changing times. To thrive, your leaders need to adapt their styles, methods, and skills to be more agile than ever, guide their teams through periods of disruption, and deliver on important business goals that drive results.

Our new guide explores four leadership areas that require a new approach to ensure success:

• Change management
• Building trust
• Transparent feedback
• Driving consistent execution

Your organisation's success depends on strong individual performance in every role—especially during times of change and stress. By applying The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People^®, you can build a culture of personal responsibility, optimal productivity, trust, cooperation, and creative problem-solving.

Download our guide for a summary of principles and practices that can help you cope with change in resilient, creative ways.

Leaders are not exempt from the impact of so much change. If your leaders’ approaches toward work haven’t changed significantly in recent months or even years, it’s likely they’re not actually leading. Leaders need more than a retroactive managerial playbook, causing resistance to change. Leaders need to shift how they think and what they do to succeed in the new world—and it requires a new mindset.

Download our interactive toolkit to discover the shifts in mindset that will help you to:

• Focus on getting things done with and through other people
• Connect with your direct reports
• Give feedback wisely
• Always be learning
• Lead through ambiguity and change
• Manage your energy

Successful leadership is about getting people to work together and give their best effort to your organisation’s most important goals. But this doesn’t just happen automatically—it requires intentional leadership actions that engage and connect your people and achieve results in a big way.

Download our newest guide for three actions your leaders can take today to transform your teams’ efforts into high-value results.

With much of the world having to adapt and work remotely where possible, it can be hard to manage even a single team because of virtual distances. Managers might feel powerless to keep a group cohesive and productive, whether in the office or working remotely. Distance working has its own set of challenges and cultural issues, just like working in the office does.

So, what can you do to shrink this cultural divide and prevent your co-located or remote team members from feeling isolated on either side?

To learn how to keep every team member engaged—from anywhere—read our guide Help Your Team Thrive in the Age of Remote Work: 8 Tips to Boost Engagement, Collaboration, and Morale.

Everyone has greatness inside of them. Are your leaders doing enough to unlock it? An exceptional leader's job is to unleash the potential in each of their direct reports.

This is a learnable skill that is built upon the foundation of trust and can impact your organization, but it’s easier said than done.

Share this guide with leaders in your organisation to help them build trust with their teams, unleash potential, and become a Trust & Inspire leader.

Each of us reacts to change in different ways—even to the same change. While our reactions to change are normal and human, it is our ability to choose our response that sets us apart and allows us to shape our own experiences.

Download our guide for six things you can do to help your team process the changes swirling around them and chart a productive course forward—despite the upheaval in their life and work.

The best communicators aren't just good talkers; they're also great listeners. When you listen well in person or over video meetings, you can connect more deeply with your team members, colleagues, and customers. You will learn more from others and they learn more from you.

To become a better listener, read our guide, Listen Like a Leader: 9 Tips to Drive Powerful Conversations. Then pick one or two skills—like reading body language or asking powerful questions—that you can start building this week.

Credible leaders know how to build the trust necessary to propel their organisation—and the people in it—forward.

To help leaders in your organisation develop this critical skill, share our tool, 7 Ways to Build Trust Between You and Your Team—A Toolkit for Leaders at All Levels.

The best leaders are curious. But they don’t just ask a lot of questions. They ask the right questions—the kind that focus their team’s brainpower on the right problems.

To help leaders in your organisation develop this critical skill, share our tool, 40 Back-pocket Questions to Unleash Your Team’s Intelligence. Developed by Liz Wiseman, author of the bestselling book Multipliers, the questions are designed to open the door to creative solutions and stronger outcomes.

Building a culture of trust starts with a shared vocabulary of simple, yet powerful phrases that leaders use to express gratitude, offer compassion, and provide support.

Leaders who engage team members with compassion and gratitude encourage them to trust one another and rally around each other and their leader to achieve desired outcomes.

Download our guide 10 Phrases Leaders Use to Build Trust with Team Members and share it with leaders throughout your organisation.

Bias is a natural part of the human condition—of how the brain works. It affects how we make decisions, engage with others, and respond to various situations and circumstances (often limiting potential). Understanding bias helps leaders notice and adjust for it, cultivate meaningful connections, and choose courage to make real change and unleash their own and others' potential.

Download our guide, Manage Your Biases to Better Manage Your Team, to learn some strategies for identifying your biases as a leader and what you can do to manage them.

Turn Your Team Members Into Team Leaders. For leaders in the workplace, their leadership legacy begins with the opportunity to lead a single team. Leaders who have just one tier of employees reporting to them are referred to as “first-level leaders,” because they are on the first step of leadership.

If your first-level leaders' mentality toward work hasn’t changed significantly since they became leaders, it’s likely they're not actually leading. Leading people is vastly different from working as an individual contributor.

Don’t leave the success of your first-level leaders, and your organisation, to chance—download our complimentary six-step guide today.

Strong performers tend to get ahead because of their energy, ideas, and high standards. But the very traits that propelled them into leadership roles can actually make them less effective as leaders. While researching her bestselling book, Multipliers, Liz Wiseman found 9 common patterns for how this happens.

Read our guide, 9 Ways Your Leaders May Be Accidentally Diminishing Others, to learn how to help leaders shift from Diminisher behaviors to Multiplier behaviors that bring out the best in their teams.

Jon’s passionate about using technology to solve problems. Rachel’s amazing at turning data into eye-popping charts and graphs. And Luis has a gift for helping people with different opinions find common ground.

Everyone has a natural genius. Unlocking it is the secret to accessing more of each team member’s energy and ideas. To help your leaders get the most from their teams, share our guide, 5 Ways to Multiply Your Team’s Natural Genius, based on research by bestselling author Liz Wiseman.

The Coronavirus pandemic has caused us to reflect on the efficacy and empathy of our communication. Shifting to remote working unleashed the need for practical adjustments, whilst the demands of our current reality necessitate communicating at every level in a way that builds trust. Effective communication is a prerequisite for effective problem solving, for effective relationships, for effective organisations. It is the fundamental skill of leadership- a role tasked with facilitating growth in teams and individuals at an unprecedented level in recent months.

This toolkit has been designed to help you consider how you can communicate more effectively as a leader - whether you are in a leadership role or not.

Given the unprecedented global situation, remote working has become a necessity for many. As a leader you are faced with making new choices every day, and for the first time we’re finding that what worked yesterday, can quite literally change overnight.

During these turbulent times of remote working, keeping your team engaged, motivated and resilient can be a challenge, but one that is essential to maintaining momentum.

Download this resources toolkit to enable you and your team to work together whilst working apart, and deliver your best results.