I was honoured to participate in the inaugural HBA Talks at the inspiring HBA annual conference last week. #HBAAC24 It was an opportunity to share life lessons in personal change and these same lessons can be applied to large organizational change. My story “From Lab to Transforming Organisations” seemed to resonate with many people in the audience. It’s certainly [...]
It’s been a tough time for the Life Sciences (and other) sectors in 2024. Uncertainty around the future and a slowdown in investment has meant that the sector has stuttered in its growth, and we are in a period of consolidation awaiting (and hoping for) better times. Organizations are downsizing and the job market is not as buoyant as [...]
Multigenerational working is part of the way we do business today. But how is it affecting the way we work? What can we do to build better relationships and enable effective organisations? Recently, Dianne Lee, Jonathan Betts, Renos Savva, Elisabeth Mortimer-Cassen, Amina Udechuku and Jackie MacRitchie have explored this. We shared experiences of working in hierarchical structures and what we [...]
Having a sense of Belonging in your organization is now being recognized as one of the most important factors to drive well-being, engage employees and thus organizational performance. It was no surprize that Belonging was selected by a small group of Life Sciences leaders to be a topic for our forum and because it was such a great discussion, they [...]
Welcome to the summer of 2021. It has been quite a few months. Who would have thought a year ago that it would take so long to evolve into the new normal that we longed for in the spring of 2020? Since a vaccine for Covid-19 was developed, a worldwide programme to immunise everyone has gathered pace. We are tracking and managing [...]
As a leader we want our plans to be implemented, but sometimes it just doesn't happen in the way we would like. Why is that? Could one of the reasons be our role as a sponsor of the change? Sometimes it's hard to resolve the paradoxes of change that we encounter as leaders in driving for success. For example, as [...]
As many organisations enter the final quarter of the year there is increased activity as the end of the year gets closer. The goals that were set at the beginning of the year with Quarter 4 completion dates are now becoming very real. The tendency is to rush to complete these activities as annual performance is reviewed. This additional layer [...]
A question of perspective It’s something we’ve all been involved with, either as a leader who has to talk to their team or department, or as a recipient hearing news that will impact us. In any change scenario there can be a mixture of positive and negative consequences depending on individuals’ situations. What you think is good news may be [...]
What does it really mean to be strategic? Early in my career I heard that “In order to succeed you have to be strategic”. Think strategically and that's how you will advance. And then I had a performance appraisal. “Doing really well in all areas – projects are great, you deliver on everything that's expected.” But, (you know that “but” in performance [...]
As a parent I have learnt that children grow up to be independent and creative when there is an environment that enables them to explore and find their own way. Telling them what to do becomes less effective as they grow up and they develop a mind of their own! This analogy can be extended to organizations as the old [...]
