Tag: leadership

Mr. Nick Potter, who heads Shell Shipping & Maritime for Asia, Pacific and the Middle East, highlights the importance of developing a learning culture in the workplace for enhanced safety and operational performance. In that regard, leadership plays a vital role so that everyone feels empowered and supported.

The recent Big Quit has been a stark reminder for business leaders of the importance of cultivating a real engagement of employees as a prerequisite to success for an organization.

Finding a good job, finding love, getting your university degree, buying a house before 30…people set smaller or higher goals every day. What is the pathway to achieving your goals? “Focus and work on them consistently”, someone would argue, but is this the right way forward? What is more important when things are not 100% under your control? Focusing on your goals or focusing on your behaviors?

Every person is unique with their own personality characteristics. Sometimes, these interpersonal differences at the workplace can impede efficient communication, leading to toxic work environments.

The effective business leader knows how to encourage an environment that supports people in their personal and professional development. This requires the efficient handling of potential conflicts to prevent toxic work environments, which, in its turn, requires leaders to escape their own drama and personal stories.

A recent survey by ISWAN identified poor leadership as one of the main barriers to social interaction among crew members onboard, at a time when the challenges set by COVID-19 have already redefined seafarers’ socialization.

How do you speak your mind against a leader without putting yourself in a precarious situation?

Among the main effects of the COVID-19 pandemic was that it changed radically the industry’s status quo, highlighting working conditions in shipping. Meanwhile, global awareness of the adverse effects of climate change globally has put the environment at the top of the agenda in controversial industries, such as shipping and the energy sector. What are the main issues expected to attract the attention of maritime leaders in the near future?

IMO continues sponsorship of Maritime SheEO leadership scheme following graduation of first cohort.

A new generation leadership with more gender equality and competence on the field of ESG will make the difference, argues Mr Bjørn Kjærand Haugland, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Skift Business Climate Leaders.