As the pandemic continues and shifts its form, it is increasingly evident that work, and the organisation of work, are being transformed. At the same time, instead of the immediate-survival mode of leaders, the horizon is widening, and the topics are extending beyond the pandemic. But how can an organisation prepare for any future in a situation as ambiguous as the present?
 
Successful companies recognise that they need to focus on ’learning’ instead of on meticulous ’planning’. The core question is: How can top-management, and any leader, increase the capacity for learning on the organisational level, the team-level, and the level of the professional

Listen in to a conversation with Dr Therese Grohnert of one of the leading research groups on learning and development in Europe. The conversation is hosted by Bo-Magnus Salenius, TalentMiles.

When the first wave of the pandemic swept over the globe, resulting in a far-reaching lock-down, many found themselves in a new situation trying to figure out how to work and lead their team from their kitchen table. Inka Partanen had started her new job as Business Manager at the Finnish online media plattform Rakentaja.fi just a week before the lock-down, and had only met a handful of her new team members before everyone was asked to stay home. 

In this podcast Inka Partanen shares her experience of working and leading remotely. In conversation with Annika Häggblom from TalentMiles some of the key learnings are uncovered:

Listen to this podcast to explore how Noel Keeley, the CEO of a company recognised for its capacity to reinvent, is approaching the present challenges. Musgrave is one of Europe’s most successful family-owned businesses with a 140-year heritage in food and brand innovation. Topics of focus for this discussion include:

The conversation will be led by professor Wim Gijselaers of Maastricht University and Bo-Magnus Salenius, founder of TalentMiles.

Hur klarar skolan och näringslivet av omställningen från klass- och konferensrum till det digitala rummet?

Inte var det många av oss som kunde förutsäga att förutsättningarna att bedriva kompetensutveckling och utbildning så drastiskt skulle förändras av ett virus! Vi var alla övertygade om vikten av att samlas i klassrum och konferensanläggningar om något lärande skulle ske. Omställningen har påtvingat oss till en ”pedagogisk distansering” och ny utmaning hur det är att gå från att fysiskt mötas i konferensrum och klassrum till det digitala.

Utbildningsinstitutioner, företag och leverantörer av traditionella upplägg av utbildningskoncept, med tyngdpunkt att fysiskt träffas, har nu prövat på att möta de här nya förutsättningarna under våren och sommaren. Lärandet och pedagogiken må vila på samma grund, men den digitala kanalen ger oss på gott och ont nya utgångspunkter. Vilka erfarenheter och slutsatser kan vi använda oss av inför ny uppstart av höstterminen och tertial 4 i våra företag.

Med Thomas Spjuth Eriksson som samtalsledare får vi höra Heidi Backman, Victor Svensson och Ola Andersson tala om sina perspektiv och dagsfärska erfarenheter om distansutbildning både från skolan och näringslivet, med internationella utblickar från Finland, Frankrike/Schweiz och Sverige.

In our work in supporting leaders, and remote leaders specifically, we often hear the question “How can I make sure my team works effectively and efficiently when working remotely?”. Remote work has quickly established itself as a standard element of work life, but what should you as a remote leader be aware of? Can remote teams really be as effective and efficient as teams working on site? What are the main challenges faced by remote teams today and what can leaders do to avoid these pitfalls?

In this podcast Erika Hyppönen and Annika Häggblom from TalentMiles share their key insights about remote leadership and trace out a roadmap for how to build and sustain a productive, creative and happy remote team for years to come.

In this podcast we talk about:

The present and global situation is challenging companies, employees and leaders alike at work in many ways. The insight has started to grow in the minds of most leaders, that the present and trying times can potentially be the most creative and reinventing of times. The aim of this online event is to guide any leader to an overall agenda of practises for capturing and increasing the capacity for creativity and learning in remote teams.

In this podcast Professor Wim Gijselaers of the Department of Educational Research in Maastricht University, Eeva Sipilä, CFO and Deputy to CEO at Metso with extensive experience of leadership of change in global industrial corporations, and Bo-Magnus Salenius, Co-founder of TalentMiles and pioneer of designing formats for ‘learning by questions’ in leadership, team and strategy development, will discuss practises for capturing and increasing the capacity for creativity and learning in remote teams.

The way we do strategy work has been changing for many years, but the current COVID-19 outbreak has notably magnified and intensified this change. The ongoing global crisis has highlighted the importance of being very flexible and able to change fast. How can we incorporate that ability into our strategy?

When Eric Schmidt was the CEO at Google, he said “We run the company by questions, not by answers.” We also know for a fact that we need to engage people and invite their input in strategy, but what are effective ways to accomplish that? How can we make questions the driving force in our way of working with strategy?

In this podcast, Jukka Hörkkö, Executive Vice President of Skanska Homes, and Patrick Furu, Chief Strategist of TalentMiles and Adjunct Professor, discuss how they see strategy work changing in this new reality. Skanska Homes recently employed a question-driven approach to their strategy process and Jukka Hörkkö will share some of his personal insights from this experience.

Vilka krav på förändring ställs i omstarten till en ny hållbar och digital utvecklingsagenda?
Hur behåller vi det mänskliga mötet och interaktionen med varandra i utvecklingsaktiviteterna med ett digitalt förtecken och delvis ny pedagogik?

Vi delar med oss och diskuterar vad forskning och praktisk HR verksamhet i detaljhandel och media branschen just nu upplever. Möt Thomas Spjuth Eriksson, Paulina Holm och Patrick Furu som alla tre har lång och senior erfarenhet från olika akademiska & strategiska HR roller; nationellt samt internationellt.

How should we think about organising learning and development activities in companies for the rest of this year? It appears increasingly difficult to predict what the ‘new normal’ will look like. Instead, HR and development professionals now need to find flexible solutions that can be easily adapted to changing and varying conditions.

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Annika Häggblom and Erika  Hyppönen from TalentMiles share their thoughts and best ideas for how to maintain a high standard of collaboration, teamwork and leadership, even when you are not working in the same  location as your colleagues.

We talk about: