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Cultivating Leadership in a Post-Pandemic World

by Kaplan | Leadership Learnings

Before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, HR leaders were already facing numerous challenges in guiding their organizations, including increasing market consolidation, changes in public policies, and a wave of new technologies. All these factors presented great opportunities to the organization, but also significant disruptions.

According to Fast Company, “The accelerated changes that upended organizations at the start of the pandemic will remain in 2021. But now that workers have adapted to these shifts, HR teams must rethink their talent approaches.” Today, we are living in a world where the pressures of post-pandemic life and the continuous development of technology are calling upon HR professionals to take the lead.

This report explores how HR practitioners are approaching leadership and skill development in this unprecedented, high pressure environment, as well as which tools they are using to help educate their staff, what challenges they are solving with new technologies, and which leadership trends are becoming standard.

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