Week 2: Making the best of new communication channels

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Making the best of new communication channels.  After a second week of Socia’s home based working, involving much time on Microsoft Teams and Zoom, here are three big lessons we have learned about hosting effective on-line meetings. 1 Be clear about the different...

Week 1: Leading in a virtual environment

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Leading in a virtual environment: Some lessons from the first week of working from home: 5 things for a leader to think about when working remotely. How do you look? You are ‘at work’ so think about what people can see in the background of your video call – it can be...

Consultation on revisions to the UK Corporate Governance Code

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The FRC have recently issued a revised version of the UK corporate governance code and sent it out for consultation. The revisions to the Code aim to address the public’s reduction in trust of our corporations. In particular, to respond to press, public and government...

Socia in conversation… The art of chairmanship

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Chairmanship is much more art than science and success is based on the particular constitution of the Board and the requirements of the individual Board members. Boards in different sectors and different industries make different demands on the chairman, however the...

Virtual collaboration – a contradiction in terms?

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An email popped into my mailbox last week from the Harvard Business Review with the title “Virtual Collaboration is fast becoming the norm, are you ready?” – the same day a colleague sent me a link to a New York Times article about research Google has done into what...