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Steph Peltier – Resilience: Put your own oxygen mask on first

“I’m running on empty”, “I’m so drained”. It’s highly likely that you have experienced moments of very low energy and noticed that on these days everything seems to be much more complicated. It’s hard to think clearly, to make (the right) decisions and even harder to take on challenges and bounce back from difficulties. As a…

Tim Brann27 November 2020

Thought Leadership UK

John Rendel – Why trust is important in funding

The best thing about becoming a funder is that people have started laughing at my jokes … The relationship between funders and grantees is asymmetrical. One person needs money, the other has money. I should know. I’ve been on both sides of the divide. After twelve years as a fundraising…

Tim Brann27 November 2020

MENA Thought Leadership

Paul N Larson, MA, CPPC, MGSCC – Cracking Your Impostor Code to Find Your Confident Voice as a Leader

“You know Paul…you’re really a fraud.” “Come on Paul…you know you don’t belong here.” “One of these days Paul…you’ll be found out as a fake.” All of these thoughts settled in my mind when I became the Chief Human Resources Officer for a USD$3billon organization many years ago. I…

Tim Brann2 November 2020

Thought Leadership

In Conversation With: Georgie Davis, World Cities Day

Georgie is Head of Communications and External Affairs at Reall & was recruited by Oxford HR into the role in 2019. To find out more about Reall, click here. Today is World Cities Day and it’s clear that the future is urban. By 2050 more than two thirds of the…

Tim Brann27 October 2020

Thought Leadership

NGO Whisperer: Performance Management, Ana Fernandes

Our Associate Principal Consultant, Ana, based in Portugal, featured in the NGO Whisperer with an article on Performance Management.Performance management is an integral part of ensuring organisations are meeting their strategic and programmatic objectives, at an organisational and individual level. On an organisational level, performance management and evaluation systems look…

Tim Brann13 August 2020

Asia Thought Leadership

What is the future of work? – Ross Hansen

COVID-19 has disrupted traditional work patterns beyond recognition, with more people working from home than ever before during the height of the lockdown. This has led many analysts to ask: what does the future of work look like? Will there be a flexible working revolution, or will the situation return…

Tim Brann28 July 2020

MENA Thought Leadership

Colour Matters? – Anuranjita Kumar

“My fondness for colours led me to an interest in art. As a child, I drew almost everything I saw! Once in school, as I was pondering over my self made family portrait unsure what I should fill skin colour with - sensing some confusion, my teacher instructed me to…

Tim Brann28 July 2020

Articles Asia Thought Leadership

What might a systems approach to leadership mean for each of us? – Alex Rees, Wasafiri Consulting

Talk is commonplace of how systems approaches can solve complex problems. But how might it help leaders make real world decisions? How might it help leaders like you? Being a leader facing complex problems is hard. Leaders are urged and lobbied to do many things. Priorities often rub up against…

Tim Brann26 June 2020

Africa Articles Thought Leadership

Women of Zimbabwe, ‘Arise, go forth and prosper’

Patricia Chinyoka is an experienced diversity practitioner with a wealth of experience in diversity and inclusion. She sincerely believes that a successful diversity agenda in any organisation is essential to unlocking the value, growth and potential of a business. Patricia is CIPD qualified with many years of experience which include…

Tim Brann29 May 2020

Thought Leadership

Remote-working: Day 44

Emer joined Oxford HR in 2018, having completed an MA in European Interdisciplinary Studies at the College of Europe in Warsaw. She has a BA in French from the University of Southampton and is now based in Amsterdam. Emer has worked a number of roles for organisations like BRAC, Artzen…

Emer Byrne29 April 2020

Thought Leadership

Steph Peltier – Resilience: Put your own oxygen mask on first

John Rendel – Why trust is important in funding

Paul N Larson, MA, CPPC, MGSCC – Cracking Your Impostor Code to Find Your Confident Voice as a Leader

In Conversation With: Georgie Davis, World Cities Day

NGO Whisperer: Performance Management, Ana Fernandes

What is the future of work? – Ross Hansen

Colour Matters? – Anuranjita Kumar

What might a systems approach to leadership mean for each of us? – Alex Rees, Wasafiri Consulting

Women of Zimbabwe, ‘Arise, go forth and prosper’

Remote-working: Day 44

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