After the pandemic caught us unnoticed in 2020, early last year we returned to having to work from home in a new confinement. Previous experience, helped, but uncertain times posed challenges to leadership and highlighted the true power of communication within organisations. Find out what the pandemic taught Susana Ferreira, Director for Marketing and Communication at Nova SBE Executive Education, about remote leadership.
How to create an experience capable of transforming the participants of the Adam's Choice programme into more human leaders?What does it mean to be human? Does it mean to be vulnerable? Artworks could be the most vulnerable things in the world (if they could talk). Luisa Fidalgo explains to us the process of creating one of the immersive experiences of the Adam's Choice programme.
The concept of 'self-leadership' is becoming increasingly popular as leadership in organisations changes. Structures in companies are changing, with a trend towards horizontalisation, bringing more autonomy to employees, but also greater responsibility.
Tiago Godinho, Head of the Digital Experience Lab at Nova SBE, explains which are the biggest obstacles to the digital transition in small and medium-sized companies, and what is the key to trigger the transformation process.
Professor António Alvarenga explains why the construction and use of Scenarios (Scenario Planning & Thinking) is important for decision making and how this technique can help to avoid crises in the tourism sector.
What do top football players and top executives have in common? On the face of it, these two worlds seem totally different, but they have far more in common than differences. Just like athletes, leaders in organisations need to have a number of concerns in order to achieve high levels of output and performance.
As part of my recently completed Postgraduate Diploma in People and Talent Management at Nova School of Business & Economics, one of the individual papers I submitted for assessment (in January 2020) was on managing remote teams. This is a topic that has been dear to my heart for a long time; little did I know at the time I wrote about it that it would become of interest to so many people a few months later, unfortunately not for the best of reasons. I share parts of my essay here, in order to give a few more clues to those trying out this way of working for the first time.