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Is It Time To Revisit Your Organisations Values?
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The organisation that got us here won't get us to where we need to be. The environment, and social and corporate governance (ESG) on their own demand new ways to think and act. Factor in the urgent need for diversity and inclusion, a whole generation who are disenfranchised economically, the combined and unrelenting forces of digitalisation, talent shortages, remote employment, market entrants that reinvent the sector, the avalanche of disruptive technology that lies just around the corner, and we have little choice but to uncover new ways to organise.

The organisational shift demanded falls firmly within the realm of the organisation's culture. Culture is a system. Systems thinking means striving to understand the relationship between each element. And this is where the organisation's values make their entrance. Values are a loadstone, a core/central element in culture that brace (link) the other elements; in particular, the four central pillars of organisation culture: purpose, diversity/inclusion, brand and speed.

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Ascension Deficit - The Challenge of Finding Leaders for the Life Sciences
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Wherever you look, demand is high, supply is constrained. Nowhere is this more true than in the hyper-competitive arena of executive and board search. And in no other sector has competition reached a higher pitch than in Healthcare and the Life Sciences.

Howard Pezim and Darren Raycroft have weathered the same uncertain times we all have. As partners and managing directors of the Bedford Group TRANSEARCH, and co-leads of the executive search firm’s Healthcare and Life Sciences practice, their time has also been spent in the eye of a hiring storm. Finding tomorrow’s Life Science leaders has never been so challenging, nor the competition more fevered.

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Three Tips To Leverage Flexibility to Attract Talent
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Long before the headlines screamed 'critical talent shortages' and 'The Great Resignation,' GM CEO Mary Barra said something that now seems quite prophetic.

"Where the work permits, employees (should) have the flexibility to work where they can have the greatest impact on achieving our goals," Barra said. "It is up to the leaders to focus on the work, not the where."

While she made these comments in the throes of Covid, today, they are a clarion call to stop the flood of workers leaving their jobs. Recognising the power of flexibility to not only retain/attract your employees but also pave the way for their productivity and engagement, here are three tips to get flexibility right.

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Bedford/TRANSEARCH Hybrid Workplace Whitepaper 2021
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Remote work is here to stay. Wherever you fall on the Venn diagram of attitudes to the remote office, that much we can agree on.

Whether our instincts are to push back on it, lean into it, or dance around the edges — that cat is out of the bag. Going forward, every organisation will have to contend with at least one singular, intractable market reality — a workforce that knows just how much is achievable and sustainable from one end of a Zoom conference or Slack group.

Executive leaders are going to have to navigate this reality and accept that the right way forward may look like nothing we've ever seen before.

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What Grit Looks Like In The Post-Pandemic Leader
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People, more than ever, want to see their values reflected in the missions they sign on for. And they have an expectation that the organisational mission will include a reciprocal investment in them. From a stoic perspective, these attitudes could be interpreted as lacking grit. But that would be a reductive take.

With a workforce now populated by four distinct generational sensibilities, leaders will need to arrive at a more nuanced understanding of what it means to persevere, find purpose and stoke passions - in effect, getting a grip on the new paradigm of grit.

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Location, Location, Location - Not Anymore
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The pandemic has accelerated trends as nothing else could. We are experiencing a dramatic, systemic, and permanent change in many areas of life, particularly in our workforce. Chris Swan peers into the future to explore what we might expect:

  • The sweeping change of in-office employment
  • Impact on immigration and education
  • Leaders the future demands
  • The future is brighter than you think

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Have Work Boundaries Blurred During the Pandemic?
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Globally we have learned so much about adapting to a new way of working. Who had MS Teams loaded on all their devises before we locked down? Who had Zoom as a most used app?

Our flexibility in doing business has tested our creativity and our ability to find solutions.

Have work boundaries blurred during the pandemic? Is this causing burnout? Is it time to discuss the new etiquette around availability and working hours?

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