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As anticipated at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a significant uptick in cyber fraud. Cyber criminals are opportunistic and taking advantage of companies at their most vulnerable. This is a result of unique risk factors that have been heightened with the rapid shift to remote working arrangements. In this webinar with accompanying slides, we discuss the steps that can be taken to mitigate the cyber threats and protect your organization during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Select the 'download file' to view the accompanying slides.

With growing amount of data breaches and stepped-up cybersecurity concerns related to COVID-19, along with increasing data privacy regulations, companies must drive awareness throughout their organizations and take advantage of benchmarking opportunities to properly deploy generally limited resources.

If there were any lingering doubts about the necessity of digital transformation to business longevity, the coronavirus has silenced them. With rare exception, operating digitally is the only way to stay in business through mandated shutdowns and restricted activity. It’s go digital, or go dark. With the right approach, businesses can come out of the fray stronger, more agile, and more customer-centric than before. Crisis breeds ingenuity, and good ideas put into practice can propel any business to breakout performance.

Even when there's social distancing, family meetings are still important, maybe even more so to maintain family connectedness and sense of purpose. While connecting through technology can’t fully replace the experience of meeting in person as a family, you can make the experience more intimate. This report will help you organize and conduct a virtual family meeting. Just as successful in-person meetings require goal setting, agendas, and ground rules, virtual meetings benefit from similar planning.

For the first time, more than half of the CEOs surveyed believe the rate of global GDP growth will decline. The finding is compelling because it reflects low confidence in their organization’s outlook, which has proven to be a reliable indicator of both the direction and the level of global GDP growth in the year ahead. Although U.S. CEOs are among the most pessimistic about global growth, they are among the most confident about their own organizations’ growth prospects.

The COVID-19 crisis has tested the acumen of leadership and the agility of organizations in ways never before seen. The opportunity for leaders now is to lock in these new ways of working and transform their workforces so they can accelerate through the turn and emerge stronger from this disruption. This guide contains insights, practical ideas, and checklists on how organizations can balance the health of their organization today while preparing for a future beyond the crisis.

Working remotely is part of the “new normal” in a COVID-19 environment, but to make it work well, you need the right people, the right attitude, and the willingness to take the time to establish the necessary processes, infrastructure, roles, and responsibilities. A family office that has been operating virtually for the past 20 years offers six tips to help make it successful.

In this collection of insights and ideas, learn about the strategies for managing and leading through the COVID-19 crisis. The insights will help you lead through and beyond the crisis, dealing with the immediate issues and looking toward the opportunities for recovery. Topics include leadership, cost optimization, virtual learning, talent management, career transition, sales effectiveness, rewards and benefits, and change management.

Location, location, location. Across the world, companies are building innovation hubs and training and educational centers closer to their clients in a bid to cocreate and deliver new services in real time. While companies may appreciate the often lower-cost labor of outsourced work, many executives are beginning to understand that the speed, agility, and flexibility of developing close-proximity partnerships can have far more benefits. In today’s digital world, where you compete is just as important as how you compete.

Social distancing drives a great need for virtual work, including in the area of assessments. Until the advent of technology that enabled remote simulations, in-person leadership simulation assessments comprised of interviews, tests, and a variety of live interactive business simulations. In this report, two case studies highlight the robustness of executing leadership simulations virtually.